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I know this is Cnet, but this shows how to use the free Exact Audio Copy program:

http://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-rip-your-music-cds-to-flac/

My personal favorite is dBpoweramp, but it's not free anymore:

http://www.dbpoweramp.com/

There is also this free open source program, CDex, that I have yet to try:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdexos/

If you want to archive your music to a computer, you might as well use FLAC these days - sure, they take up more space than MP3, but they also are lossless and hard drives are huge/cheap. With lossless audio files, you could burn them to another CD without any loss of fidelity. Edit: You can also convert from FLAC to MP3 or other format at any time.

I'd tell him the truth, that it's a tedious and expensive process if he wants it done professionally by hand you would have to charge your hourly rate.

If not he can always try some normalization software, either audicity for free or dbpoweramp can do batch normalization/conversion/apply any VSTs.

http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm Although it's called a converter there is nothing to stop you from having WAV in and WAV out and just using the normalization. It can also do stuff like trim leading/ending silence which might be useful too.

Or some kind of hybrid, tell him you'll teach him the process of using dbpoweramp for an hour or so at your hourly rate.

I use DBPowerAmp to convert my FLACS to ALAC rather than converting to MP3. ALAC is otherwise known as apple lossless so your conversion will still be lossless and it will work on Itunes and your IPod.

with the Zune software there was a way to do this, but invariably it would convert to a low quality old version of the WMA codec, often times worse quality.

I've used dbPowerAmp to convert my entire music collection to the latest version of WMA (10 pro) quality based.. you can get ridiculously small sizes with still very good quality. However, it does mean converting your collection, or the parts of it you care about before synching to the phone.

other tools are available to do the same thing.

http://www.dbpoweramp.com/

I second dBpoweramp - if you decide to try a paid option. Simple codec support, batch converters/rippers (multiple files/drives at once), and multithreaded.

I also love how dBp handles meta data - does EAC have good meta data support for consistent/accurate tagging??

Needs your pc and phone to be in same wifi network.

Get this http://www.streamwhatyouhear.com/ or this http://www.dbpoweramp.com/asset-upnp-dlna.htm (Paid)

Install on your pc

Then install this app on your phone https://www.windowsphone.com/en-in/store/app/smart-player/65ce56eb-28b1-42aa-83e5-2ab808c8510d

Easy. Grab a copy of dBpoweramp music converter:

http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm

Install it in trial mode, and use the batch converter to mirror your FLAC collection into a MP3 one. You might have to let it run overnight depending on how big your music collection is and how powerful your computer is, but it'll do the job well.

yes, you will need to convert your flacs first.

The most popular program is DBpoweramp converter

Just install the 21-day trial, have a quick read through of the website to know what to do, don't change any settings other than the setting the output format to ALAC. (apple lossless audio codec).

Ok so <strong>this</strong> is the page that you should need for the encode codec. The link is at the bottom of the page and it should place itself in the correct folder for use. Then it should be a simple follow the instructions and reap the rewards process. I'll respond to your questions as quickly as possible for as long as possible. This isn't a hindrance, it is enjoyable helping someone out with something that you've had to work out in the past.

Apple Lossless (ALAC) is a pretty good trade-off. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Lossless

It's just like FLAC in that it compresses losslessly, plays on all the different non-Apple devices and software I use, but also works in iTunes (and plays on iPods and iPhones) without further conversion.

I quite like dBpoweramp for ripping CDs to ALAC - it's got some quite cool tagging and checksumming features.

Both iTunes and iOS devices support Apple Lossless (a.k.a ALAC). As noted if you read the Wikipedia page, there is also reasonable support on other platforms.

Mac users can convert from FLAC to ALAC using the free, open source and excellent XLD - conversion of an entire album should take about a minute. Windows users can convert using dbPowerAmp.

How have you never ran across .flac before? And it is not difficult at all to play or convert to mp3. Check out dBpoweramp's music converter and convert those .flac files into mp3. They may end up being better quality than the version you downloaded depending on the source...and the conversion is relatively quick too.

Fuck iTunes (dBPowerAmp is the ideal solution for converting music, and it isn't a big resource hog). I actually appreciate the fact that it's a wav because that means Gamagori made an effort to upload an uncompressed file (though FLAC would've been ideal). If 170 MB is too big for you then you need to upgrade your internet. It took me less than a minute to download.

Hmm, the way I do it is with a commercial program, but it's the best available for Windows. Despite the fact that it costs money, it definitely has no competition. dbPoweramp.

>A) From what I understand, wireless headphones encode everything into 250 AAC,

>B) which means for best quality one should use a 250 AAC file.

I know nothing about Bluetooth but if your stmt A) above is true, then your stmt B) is not correct.

If the wireless headphones are reencoding audio, you do not have to be concerned with attempting to match its rate as you suppose in ref B), you would be better off quality wise leaving it in some form of lossless format so you do not get a double quality decline hit: see ref C below.

C) Encoding lossy always results in a quality decline, in your case flac to aac would be one hit. Then, the headphones reencoding lossy again to 250, compounds the first decline to further decay your music. If quality is not as important as inconvenience, it's no big deal (and I get that; though I have ultra high end equip, 95% of my listening is through cheap computer speakers or a 6+ year old iPod nanos & Bose sounddocks).

Note, be careful with aac encoders, they are not all created equal. Personally, I prefer mp3 but do use aac and apple loosless extensively for special reasons. So for aac, I prefer FDKaac which many argue is the highest quality aac encoder. But fdkaac has a severe high frequency cutoff if not encoded at the highest quality setting of 5. For fdkaac for mac, you should have no problems 'installing' it such as done with Linux/BSD. For windows, fdkaac is very difficult to find but for now, windows folks can get fdkaac via the below link,

>m4a AAC Encoder (FDK) Release 6

https://web.archive.org/web/20181216095303/http://www.dbpoweramp.com/codec-central-m4a.htm

I use dbpoweramp. I don't know if it has 'drag & drop' but you right click any file from windows explorer and can quickly transcode from that. It also has a batch converter mode for converting a lot at a time.

http://www.dbpoweramp.com/

There is a trial before you buy, give it a shot.

Details wil; depend on your OS. If like most people you're using Windows, I hear dBPoweramp is very good and has an FDK-AAC encoder plugin available here. That'll probably be simplest. Otherwise you can probably find a build of ffmpeg that includes it on Win or Mac. If you want to build it on Linux, just say so and I'll hunt down the long but easily manageable compiling guide if you can't find it.

I'd also suggest you check out the Opus codec (from Xiph.org -- home of FLAC & Ogg Vorbis etc) it's free and open source (where as AAC has a mess of patents and licensing issues) and actually beats AAC on quality / filesize with a lot of material (see listening tests at Hydrogen Audio) It's comparatively very new so isn't as widely supported as the other codes, whivh is pretty much it's only downside. Many pople are happy with using bitrates around 96 - 128kbps for portable listening where space matters. Again Opus is available as a dBPoweramp plugin or via ffmpeg.

My two go-to tagging programs are MP3tag and dBpoweramp (non free).

Even if you don't use dB for this purpose, it's worth having for the tooltip option alone. It's a thing of beauty: http://i.imgur.com/GQwTPPg.jpg

http://www.dbpoweramp.com/

I use this. Tons of options, and super simple/quick to use. I use it mainly from the right click context menu i.e. find the WAV in explorer, right click and pick 'convert to mp3' by default drops the mp3 in the same directory, but of course you can configure it however you like.

Rather than futzing with a bunch of different formats, you could just head to a torrent site and download it in the correct format then add that to iTunes. If you're comfortable with that, you can stop reading here.

It looks like that Grateful Dead is in HDCD format, right? You could use dBpoweramp to to decode it to 24bit FLAC, then convert that to an mp3 or mp4 for iTunes. iTunes unfortunately won't do FLAC natively, but poweramp should be able to turn FLACs into mp3s.

HDCD is owned by Microsoft, I'm surprised that Media Player won't decode them. Is your version of Media Player really old? They're up to version 12 now, it looks like HDCD decoding was added in version 9 so you need at least that.

I am not the recorder. I have been downloading these recordings from Dime. Generally these recordings are encoded to FLAC to maintain lossless audio without the full size of WAV files. I am the one who converted these files to MP3 though. For that I use a program call dBPoweramp

If you look at the text files in the folders you can see the source info for the recording.

I've always seen paint as mspaint.exe. Where did you download the application from?

dbpoweramp would probably be a better choice in app to install. It is almost 100% compatible with wine.

I would like to nominate SPlayer for best video player. Seriously use this people. GPU acceleration, small footprint, it looks nice and it doesn't have an ugly skin...

http://www.splayer.org/index.en.html

Audio Converter has to go to dBpoweramp. Multicore support, codecs are updated frequenty, it integrates with windows, it's tiny, it even allows windows to read flac and ape tags in explorer and windows media player.

http://www.dbpoweramp.com/

I haven't used it in a while, but dbpoweramp gives you a 3 week trial.

Since you didn't specify an OS, I will cover all my bases. If you are on windows, it's just double click to install. If you're on linux, run it in wine. If you're on mac (or some other OS), you're on your own.