Thought I'd ask the wonderful people in this bit of the forum first... (I can repost to ICE if no one knows)

I'm re-ripping my music I have on CD to flac so I can fully appreciate the Columbus and Canton coming my way soon.

Are there any bit rate restrictions on the flac file with Columbus?

I'm trying out EAC and I have options of bit rates of 32kBit/s (ha ha!) to 1024kBit/s (bye bye disk space!)

Not too worried about space - I don't have a massive music collection and I don't spend a lot of time in the motor - but I'd like my music to sound good.

 

Ignore me - it makes not a blind bit of difference between the bit rates. Guess the option is there for if you are doing something other than flac.

Why not rip with variable bit rate to mp3 as that's a good compromise?

Or even rip to ogg ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogg

Why not rip with variable bit rate to mp3 as that's a good compromise?

Mp3 is a poor quality compressed format when comparing to lossless like flac.

Or even rip to ogg ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogg

Why? If you wanted it lossless then it would utilise FLAC in a ogg container, or PCM which is basically a .wav so would be massive!

Mp3 is a poor quality compressed format when comparing to lossless like flac.

 

But in a moving car, regardless of how good your speakers are - are you really going to be able to tell the difference?

But in a moving car, regardless of how good your speakers are - are you really going to be able to tell the difference?

With Canton, most definitely.

 

The difference between a VBR mp3 and CDA or FLAC is noticeable, especially on the bass reproduction through the subwoofer.

With Canton, most definitely.

 

The difference between a VBR mp3 and CDA or FLAC is noticeable, especially on the bass reproduction through the subwoofer.

 

Depends what quality VBR mp3 and whose ears you're listening through...

 

My point was that yes, mp3 is lossy and therefore not as good quality as lossless but in a moving car I don't think most people would be able to tell the difference (assuming reasonable bitrate mp3).

With Canton, most definitely.

 

The difference between a VBR mp3 and CDA or FLAC is noticeable, especially on the bass reproduction through the subwoofer.

I'm a complete idiot when it comes to music file formats but as I am due to have my new L&K estate any day now complete with Columbus and Canton I will have a number of music cd's which I would like to download on to the hard drive of Columbus.

 

It seems to make sense that as I will have a good sound system that I get the best output possible so can you recommend the best way for me to go about this process to achieve the desired result. Thanks.

I'm a complete idiot when it comes to music file formats but as I am due to have my new L&K estate any day now complete with Columbus and Canton I will have a number of music cd's which I would like to download on to the hard drive of Columbus.

 

It seems to make sense that as I will have a good sound system that I get the best output possible so can you recommend the best way for me to go about this process to achieve the desired result. Thanks.

I'm starting out with Exact Audio Copy (EAC) http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/

Seems to do a pretty good job. Lots of options - guides you though the process pretty well. Also fetches track names and you can choose your album cover. Not quite a simple as ripping discs in Windows Media Player though.

File size is pretty big for flac. An example 320kbps MP3 is 11MB, with flac it's 34.7MB.

But 64GB SD cards are cheap (http://www.7dayshop.com/64gb-sd-cards), so why not :-)

Try MediaMonkey

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