iPod touch New iPod Touch Sound Quality

[Rizvi1]

What's the easiest way to go about converting music to MP3 via LAME? I want to start getting rid of my CDs and was thinking of converting everything to Apple Lossless (since I'm not too familiar with FLAC). And then I'd like to keep that on an external HD and keep only mp3s on my computer and (as a result) my synced iTunes library.

Get rid of your CDs? Then you'd probably want lossless copies, so you don't lose anything.

I dunno what's the easiest way using Apple Lossless (iTunes I guess? I dunno what other programs convert to that)... I do know Media Monkey will convert music from FLAC to MP3 just fine and real easily, and if you're ripping a decent CD collection then Exact Audio Copy is THE standard for secure reliable rips. You can Google it.

http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Exact_Audio_Copy

There's several guides linked there on how to properly configure EAC though. The program will actually take into account the particulars of your specific optical drive, and it'll compare your ripped files to a database of other rips of the same CD, so it's very comprehensive. It might take longer than other ripping programs but you'll never get a bad rip. It's worth reading a guide or two to set it up properly, it's a piece of cake to use it after that.

You can also set it to convert the songs automatically to FLAC, it's pretty easy, and from there you can convert 'em to MP3 w/Media Monkey or any other library manager type program (though probably not iTunes). Or you can just have it output the raw WAV files or whatever you want in order to convert those to Apple Lossless elsewhere.

MM now syncs the iPod touch too btw. I haven't tried it myself (I've only had the touch for a week or two) but I will soon, I don't really like iTunes (will probably have to keep using it for app/photo syncs though). It's sluggish on my computer (admittely I'm due for an upgrade, an OC'd AMD A64 @2.3GHz w/1GB DDR), and I just find the way it syncs rather unintuitive in general, always have...

I've always loathed having to work with a client's computer (doing repair services) and having to back up their libraries or transfer them along w/licenses etc.

Thanks for the feedback and advice. Seems Exact Audio Copy is something to really look into. I was leaning towards Apple Lossless. I personally really like iTunes and the way it organizes everything. I would prefer to keep using that for my music management, but perhaps I can check out Exact Audio Copy for the conversion

 

[seeny]

i’ve had a 1g for a few months now and have just got a 2g (both 32’s) i use sennheiser cx 300 headphones on both and can’t tell the difference between them