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On 9/29/2020 11:44 AM, Fred Maxwell [email protected] [EAC] wrote:
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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]
>> <mailto:[email protected]> [EAC] <[email protected]
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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>>
>> I wasn’t suggesting that, but flacs are a more ad hoc, de facto
>> standard than m4a.
>>
>> Regardless, their tagging seems fine to me.
>>
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>> *From:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> on behalf of Frank
>> Esposito fpesposito-/[email protected] <mailto:fpesposito-/[email protected]> [EAC]
>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
>> *Sent:* Monday, September 28, 2020 7:52:09 PM
>> *To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
>> *Subject:* Re: [EAC] old burned cd file in wav
>>
>> umm ... do FLAC files not have "proper tagging?"
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 7:17 PM Mike Walsh [email protected]
>> <mailto:[email protected]> [EAC] <[email protected]
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Not to beat a dead horse, but I’ll add this:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Anyway, the simple answer is rip to flac or alac and don’t worry
>> about much else.
>>
>> -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
>>
>> *Thanks all for the excellent answers and education. I appreciate it*
>>
>> **
>>
>> *From:*[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>> [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>]
>> *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
>>
>>
>>
>> > > 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.
>>
>> Sorry that I am late to the party. But, I need to correct the above.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> The key point is that you have to have recoding before you can have
>> further degradation.
>>
>> All of the above applies to Blue-ray ROMs and/or Blu-ray authored
>> videos.
>>
>> MB
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On the subject of FLAC does anybody know of a program that can test the
integrity of a FLAC file without having to play it?
Harry