[10traistintarry]

Didint really know where to post this, anyway I want to rip some cd's I have and wanted to know what format and kbs or what ever is the highest quality possible for audio ??? thanks guys...

[Unergerah]

FLAC or WMA Lossless is all you need.

[TSVIDeo]

Rip them in CD quality surely? No point in encoding 128kbps files say into a 256kbps file!

[Soassesaisp]

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[AnthonyKing]

I rip my favourite albums the FLAC and listen to them in Foobar, other albums i just use MP3 VBR 240kb.

[Gcromqgb]

Highest: (All lossless formats, identical to the quality of the original CD)
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.aiff
.flac
.wma lossless
.aac lossless

Good:
320kbps MP3 (CBR)
V0 ~256kbps MP3 (VBR)

[DeilMikina]

That's like making Blu-Ray discs from DVDs, or Laserdiscs, honestly.

[10traistintarry]

well, whats gonna play on my ipod ????

[Zebrabitch]

well, whats gonna play on my ipod ????

Whatever apple limits you to... meaning, you have to use their proprietary format apple lossless... Or, you could put rockbox on it and then use whatever you want and you don't have to use itunes to put music on it!

[Loopyjr]

Honestly, would it even be worth having lossless audio on your ipod of all things? On top of that, do you have any speakers/headphones that are actually good enough to let you hear a difference?

[DeilMikina]

Flipping double post crap.

[DeilMikina]

Whatever apple limits you to... meaning, you have to use their proprietary format apple lossless... Or, you could put rockbox on it and then use whatever you want and you don't have to use itunes to put music on it!

Eh? iPods play mp3 files dude. Regular old mp3 files. How do I know? I have a 60GB iPod full of them.

From the RTFM:

Audio formats supported: AAC (16 to 320 Kbps), Protected AAC (from iTunes Store), MP3 (16 to 320 Kbps), MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 2, 3, and 4), Apple Lossless, WAV, and AIFF CDs are not lossless audio to begin with, so, you don't need to convert them into AAC or Apple Lossless or anything fancy. Mp3 files would be fine. You can make them huge, lossless files with high bitrates, but, they won't sound a whole lot different.

[Gcromqgb]

CDs are not lossless audio to begin with, so, you don't need to convert them into AAC or Apple Lossless or anything fancy. Mp3 files would be fine. You can make them huge, lossless files with high bitrates, but, they won't sound a whole lot different.

Hence the idea of using lossless!

Lossy / lossless refers to compression, and thus has nothing to do with Redbook audio CDs. While CDs were originally created to be audibly inferior to seeing your favorite group live (hence the 44.1kHz sampling rate) they still blow lossy compression schemes out of the water. The whole point of encoding in a lossless format is to retain that 1:1 version of the CD while compressing down the file size and not losing any audible data.

Now if you upsampled to a higher sample rate and bit depth, yes that would be pointless.