RE: Re: OT: FLAC ripper & ID3V2?

["Sullivan, Glenn" <GSullivan@xxxxxxx>]

I have not seen a hand held FLAC player, but the way I look at it is
this:

FLAC is lossless.  Which means that, by reversing the process, I can
get the
original WAV back.  Which means that I can do an
as-good-as-it-gets
transposition from one format to another by simply un-flacing the files
and
the encoding them as I see fit.

I should only have to rip once.  Once it is on my hard drive, in a
losslessly compressed format, I have the same data as if I were to stick
the
CD in.  And I can swap formats to my heart's content.

In other words (and not to rub it in... ;-) I will never be in your
situation: having to re-rip all my cd's when the next best encoder is
released.  I can just run a script which converts my flac files back
to WAV,
and the re-encodes with the new one.  Same end result, much less
work.

The only reason I am going to use FLAC instead of SHN (another lossless
compression algorithm, with better compression) is that the DDAR/Rio
supports flac.  No one has added on-the-fly SHN decompression to
any
hardware players yet.  Probably because it is not as easy as FLAC
was.

I should be done testing my .exe by next week.  I will release it to
y'all
then.

Glenn Sullivan, MCSE+I  MCDBA
David Clark Company Inc.


-----Original Message-----
From: Graham Howe [mailto:graham@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 1:09 PM
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Re: OT: FLAC ripper & ID3V2?


--- In ukha_d@y..., "Sullivan, Glenn" <GSullivan@D...>
wrote:
> OK.
> 
> I am writing a VB app that will use FLAC to do it all in one
shot.  
When it
> is done I will let y'all know, and if someone wants me to make a 
version
> that uses LAME and does tags all at once I can do that as well.
> 
> But I'll take my music Lossless, thank you.  ;-)
> 
> Glenn Sullivan, MCSE+I  MCDBA
> David Clark Company Inc.
> 
I would certainly be interested. All my CDs are ripped at 192 to MP3, 
but with cheaper disks, uncertain future for MP3 and FLAC support in 
DDARs I am now seriously thinking about ripping them all again. One 
concern I do have is the portability of FLAC, are there any hand-held 
FLAC players?

Graham


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