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[Ioman]

Sweet article. I would probably use Slim Devices and rip my collection into FLAC format, that way it would play on my Cowon X5. I guess a high bit-rate MP3 format would be fine.

I am thinking about buying the Sonos unit for home which supports FLAC so that would be a good format for that as well.

I guess as an Apple iPod user, you would want AAC. The Sonos system supports non-protected AAC files too, so that would be another option.

[ECA]

The format I SEND has to be Aduio CD?? Or can I send them the MP3, and get some other format back??

[davebarnes]

Pathetic article.
There is no mention of the quality of the rips.
There is a huge difference between rips done by Apple's iTunes and EAC, for example.

[MusicShifter]

Originally Posted by Ioman

Sweet article. I would probably use Slim Devices and rip my collection into FLAC format, that way it would play on my Cowon X5. I guess a high bit-rate MP3 format would be fine.

I am thinking about buying the Sonos unit for home which supports FLAC so that would be a good format for that as well.

I guess as an Apple iPod user, you would want AAC. The Sonos system supports non-protected AAC files too, so that would be another option.

If you're interested in both FLAC and AAC, why not just go with MusicShifter.com's "Deluxe" package and get both?

The pricing for MusicShifter.com's Deluxe package ($0.99/CD) is cheaper than Slim's normal package which just offers one format.

http://www.musicshifter.com/

[ECA]

At what bps...

[neuroking]

I was going to ding MusicShifter for advertising on the forums, but he/she/it opinted out a pretty big omission. That Deluxe package does include rips to both a lossy and lossless format, so 2 for the price of 1. Not bad at all.

Oh, and davebarnes is an asstard. If you want to compare formats, that's an entirely different subject. This is for services. You want format comparisons, I'm sure there are several million other articles out there. And who puts their phone number in their sig anyways?

[Ioman]

Originally Posted by davebarnes

Pathetic article.
There is no mention of the quality of the rips.
There is a huge difference between rips done by Apple's iTunes and EAC, for example.

Well I was not going to get into details, I am just glad to see that there is a service that provides FLAC ripping.

But since you are on the subject, why don't you tell us all what the difference is between rips done by Apple's iTunes and EAC?

[deedub]

Hya Suzie,
Nice article! You should know the link to Ripdigital actually links to slimdevices...
ciao!

[AVBob]

Speaking as an AV Installer, you forgot the most important information. Riptopia.com is the only service with a partnership with Gracenote, the same company that supplies the metadata for iTunes, Yahoo music, Sony, etc. We use Riptopia for high end installations because the the combination of Riptopia's quality of data processing plus Gracenote creates digital music collections that are better quality then if you bought your whole collection from an online music store. The others mention "Data Grooming" because they don't have Gracenote and have to try to clean up their tagging.