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CD: The indestructible music format that REFUSES TO DIE

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Re: Fidelity issues?

> Yeah, right.

> Try playing that on your car stereo without fannying around with transcoding first. This made all

> the more interesting by the fact that all the transcoding utilities I've found that support FLAC

> have proced to be buggy as hell and come with offensively shite UI's.

No good reason to try and play high-grade FLACs in a car. For the car it's simple; using winamp for example, simply select your album of choice from the media library, right-click and transfer to your plugged iPOD or MP3 player of choice. Winamp will automatically convert the FLACs into MP3s for your enjoyment.

> I've moved to using WMA lossless, purely for practical reasons.

WMA format is owned by a corporation. That's a no no for me. For me, FLACs any day.

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Re: Fidelity issues?

I still buy CDs. Every CD that I buy, I rip into full quality FLACs, ID3 tag them and get the best album cover image for each and every track.

The reason why I still buy CDs? Because of the album art work that I like to look at sometimes while listening. You don't get that from a digital download...

With regards to why bother with anything above 128k... Are you nuts? Squeeze them tracks over a worthwhile DAC and quality horns and you'll hear that difference. Sit right in the centre of the stereo image and close your eyes. I swear it'll be as though Hendrix is playing his guitar right there and in front of you...

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