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I also keep my collection as ALAC (AKA Apple Lossless) and I agree with Mike regarding the standardization advantage it has. The ALAC standards are well-documented by Apple. A simple test for ALAC files is whether Apple’s music apps are ‘happy’ with them, play them, and display the tag data properly. If a file doesn’t work with Apple’s own apps, then there is almost certainly something wrong with the file..
Like FLAC, ALAC is open source, with Apple having released the ALAC source code under the Apache license almost a decade ago.
> On Sep 28, 2020, at 8:24 PM, Mike Walsh [email protected] [EAC] <[email protected]> wrote:
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> I wasn’t suggesting that, but flacs are a more ad hoc, de facto standard than m4a.
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> Regardless, their tagging seems fine to me.
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> From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Frank Esposito fpesposito-/[email protected] [EAC] <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, September 28, 2020 7:52:09 PM
> To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [EAC] old burned cd file in wav
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> umm ... do FLAC files not have "proper tagging?"
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> On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 7:17 PM Mike Walsh [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> [EAC] <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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> Not to beat a dead horse, but I’ll add this:
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> I would not ever keep a collection as wav. I would do flac or alac. Personally I use alac for lossless. Both save space and allow proper tagging. And with eac, u can use accuraterip to ensure u got a bit perfect rip and fix the file (to match what the online dB says) if u didn’t.
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> Also, I have read u can add crc checks to flacs, which are helpful for when u copy or clone files etc. with a scanner, u can see if the new file has the right crc, and if not, it means some errors (degradation) occurred when copying. Personally, I don’t worry about this, it’s typically so small ud never notice and it doesn’t occur often to begin with. but it’s good for those that do worry. I use alac so the files are basically universal with apple or windows, but I am pretty sure it doesn’t support that feature.
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> Anyway, the simple answer is rip to flac or alac and don’t worry about much else.
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> -mdw
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> From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> on behalf of 'Joe' [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> [EAC] <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
> Sent: Monday, September 28, 2020 1:35:59 AM
> To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
> Subject: RE: [EAC] old burned cd file in wav
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> Thanks all for the excellent answers and education. I appreciate it
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> Sent: Sunday, September 27, 2020 11:38 PM
> To: Fred Maxwell [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> [EAC] <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
> Subject: Re: [EAC] old burned cd file in wav
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> > > I ask this because we all know that if you burn a video to lets say a dvd and then use that same dvd to burn another one there will be degradation.
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> Sorry that I am late to the party. But, I need to correct the above.
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> If you burn the video to DVD-ROM, say a MKV wrapped video, there will be
> no degradation. If you take that MKV file from the DVD-ROM and burn it to
> another DVD-ROM, again no degradation. If you make an ISO of the DVD and
> burn the ISO, no degradation.
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> You will only have degradation if you re-encode the video. If the video
> was MPEG-2 and was DVD-video compliant, you could author a DVD-video and
> have no video degradation. If you copy that DVD-video, you will have no
> degradation. But, if you have to recode the video before the DVD authoring
> process, you will have degradation. You will have NO further degradation
> if you copy that authored DVD-video.
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> The key point is that you have to have recoding before you can have
> further degradation.
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> All of the above applies to Blue-ray ROMs and/or Blu-ray authored videos.
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