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IIRC, Cd's are wav files you are simply copying them.
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Exactly, everything (except the Oppo BD player?) can read wave files. No matter what convertion software one settles upon, it'll be able to convert a wave. FLAC support is pretty good, but sometimes I come across something where I have to convert into a wave first.
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IIRC, Cd's are wav files you are simply copying them. CDs are 16-bit/44.1kHz PCM. Wave files can contain 16-bit/44.1kHz PCM data. But CDs have Reed-Solomon error correction, and wave files have a RIFF header. There is a process of extracting the data from a CD and packing it into a wave file, but it is pretty straight forward. Where as other formats require extensive processing.
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Do .wav files support adequate tagging? As far as I am concerned, the need to properly tag/sort/group/display-images is more important to me than the name of the company that created the format.
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That is one problem. There is no standard way to tag a .wav. You can find software to do it, but not everything can read the tags after it's done.
I've gotten around that by using the following directory and name structure:
...\Artist\Album\##. Artist -- Track Name.wav
That way even without the tags being read all the really important information is still available. The album art goes in the Album folder too.
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That is one problem. There is no standard way to tag a .wav. You can find software to do it, but not everything can read the tags after it's done.
I've gotten around that by using the following directory and name structure:
...\Artist\Album\##. Artist -- Track Name.wav
That way even without the tags being read all the really important information is still available. The album art goes in the Album folder too. That was one reason i was shying away from the older wav format but really, i have to ask if i care that much about tags. In the digital realm most players do read the tags to present the name and track info to the user so it is kind of an important thing. How often do you find you have to convert a flac file to wav, and for what kind of reasons?
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I had downloaded some tracks in FLAC for a friend who wanted them on his PSP. The media manager software didn't support FLACs, so I had to convert them to wave first.
I don't know how often such a thing would come up, as I keep all my music in wave format, and thus never have any trouble like that.
Untagged (or unsupportedly tagged) music just shows the file name. "01. Rise Robots Rise -- All Sewn Up" is good enough for me.
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Speaking of file type conversion, my daughter recently upgraded to a Nintendo DSi from her old DS that died. The DSi will let you load and play music, but only supports AAC format. Since my entire library is either mp3 or flac, my obvious next question is: Can someone recommend a free converter to go from MP3 or FLAC to AAC? My plan is to make a small duplicate sub-library (i.e. keep the original MP3's and flac's) of just my daughter's music for the DSi specifically. Thanks!
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I'd have to check but "Media Monkey" pretty much converts anything to anything and it's free.
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iTunes will go from MP3 to AAC.
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