Do you change lossless formats?

2003-04-07 00:19:09

I started out with wavpack's hybrid mode...  then i decided 2 files per track was more of a pain in the ass, so i went to ape extra high...  then i realized the difference between high and extra high is like .1mb per track... but a serious difference in encode/decode time... especially when making an mp3 cd for my car, or doing replaygain and the like...  so now i'm converting down to High (luckily monkey's gui makes that very easy)

but in all honesty... i wouldn't be surprised if i ended up using wavpack again in the future (just without the hybrid mode)... or if flac gets its filesizes down, i'd definately switch to that...


has anyone else had a similiar situation? or am i just extremely neurotic... 

Do you change lossless formats?

Reply #1 – 2003-04-07 00:24:01

I have truckloads of Shorten files (that's what you get with a damn addiction to in-concert recordings ), and use FLAC and Monkey's Audio for encoding own stuff.. 

Don't worry, the beauty of lossless compression is that you can switch formats any day without compromising quality (duh  )

Do you change lossless formats?

Reply #2 – 2003-04-07 01:16:28

Just because I could, I recently decided to "upgrade" a bunch of FLAC files from a pre-1.1.0 version to 1.1.0, in the process ensuring that all of them were compressed with --best.  I don't have any intentions of switching formats, but I do enjoy the luxury of being able to decode and re-encode lossless files as much as I want.  So no, you're not crazy or neurotic...we're just typical audiophiles that treat our music with a certain blend of paranoia and indecisiveness.

Do you change lossless formats?

Reply #3 – 2003-04-07 02:17:42

haha, good to see i'm not alone on this...