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1. #DBPOWERAMP FREE ALTERNATIVE SOFTWARE#
2. #DBPOWERAMP FREE ALTERNATIVE TRIAL#
3. #DBPOWERAMP FREE ALTERNATIVE WINDOWS#

If you have to convert your files when you get them out of iTunes, then FLAC is a fine choice.

I dunno if the SongScanner works (or works well) with anything but these three 'native' formats.

Good if you're running a low-power server or a NAS. That means that the server is lightly loaded when handling these formats (not as simple as 'just pass the data through' but pretty close). Yet another vote for dbPowerAmp and MP3Tag.Īs to whether you want to leave your current iTunes files in AAC or convert, IMO depends.įLAC, PCM (Wav), and MP3 are decoded on the player. File Converter and ReplayGain Calculator: foobar2000 Should that happen there are several free applications that will convert Apple Lossless to FLAC without any loss of quality.įor anyone just starting out in this area here is a truly GREAT resource that will answer many questions and save a lot of your time: The Well-Tempered Computer. The risk is that you may give up future compatibility should you move away from the Squeezebox system: Squeezebox Server can decode and stream Apple Lossless but almost any music server can handle FLAC. (Maybe someone more familiar with latest iTunes can confirm/deny?) If so, that saves you from having to store two libraries. If you like iTunes and are comfortable with it why not use it to encode your CDs to Apple Lossless? Quality is the same as FLAC - and as the original CD - and I think latest versions of iTunes have the ability to convert Apple Lossless to AAC (lossy) on the fly when uploading tracks to an iPod. Is there an alternative path?That depends on whether you can get beyond your belief that there is something deficient about how iTunes does the same thing. There is no advantage to converting a lossy file to FLAC - the file will just be bigger with no improvement in sound quality. If they do not, you should be able to play them directly without encoding them to FLAC. If your existing iTunes files contain DRM, you can't use them with the squeezebox. This will give you the same results, but may require a little more tweaking to get things going efficiently and you may have to intervene to fix up tags received from freedb.

#DBPOWERAMP FREE ALTERNATIVE SOFTWARE#

Free software you can use are a combination of EAC to rip you CDs (and encode to FLAC directly if you like) and foobar2000 to create the mp3 files. These I then import into iTunes to use with my iPod.ĭbPowerAmp, with tagging and mp3 support, does cost money (~$40 maybe? I forget). Once I've ripped my FLACs, I then use dbPowerAmp's batch encode to create mp3 versions of the files in a separate directly. It is very good about getting accurate tags and encodes to FLAC on the fly so by the time the CD ejects, the FLACs are encoded already.

#DBPOWERAMP FREE ALTERNATIVE WINDOWS#

Personally I use a windows program called dbPowerAmp to both rip and encode. You'll get quite a few opinions with this.

You can edit tags with dBpoweramp, but I find mp3tag much better for mass-tagging operations. And don't bother to make MP3 copies of the AAC files, as those will sound worse than the original AAC.įinally, if you're on Windows you should get the freeware mp3tag ( which is a powerful tagging program that works on FLAC as well as MP3. But at least you won't degrade the quality by further transcoding. They will still be lossy AAC files, except now they'll take up more disk space. Note that this will not improve the sound quality. If your iTunes music isn't DRM'd, you can convert it to FLAC using dBpoweramp. But you're likely to want to pay for it anyway for future use.

#DBPOWERAMP FREE ALTERNATIVE TRIAL#

Hell, you could even rip your 200+ CDs during the trial period, which I think is 30 days. There is a free trial so you can see if it's worth it to you. It costs about US$36, and is well worth it in my opinion. I rip to FLAC, add or clean up tags, and then do a batch transcoding to MP3 (also with dBpoweramp).ĭBpoweramp isn't free. You can set up dBpoweramp to encode to both FLAC and MP3 at the time of your rip, but I prefer to do them separately. You'll save a lot of time typing and editing the tag info. dBpoweramp also has extremely good metadata/tag handling. It uses AccurateRip to confirm that you get an error-free rip, and if the AccurateRip shows discrepancies with others' rips or it's an obscure CD that isn't in the AccurateRip database it will automatically do a "secure" rip by ripping multiple times until it gets two matching results. I'm sure many others on the forum will as well. If you're on Windows, then I strongly recommend dBpoweramp for ripping your CDs. The software choice depends a lot on what OS you're using.