jernikfra Posted February 11, 2007 Report Share Posted February 11, 2007 Just wondering if anyone has any theories or experience with the myriad of kbps settings for importing a cd into sonicstage music library.which of the settings, besides the obvious wav is the best? atrac, atrac lossless, mp3, aac, etc...I'll be storing cd's i don't own onto my PC hard drive so they are there incase i need to record them again.I'll be using the usb to optical cable to listen and if necessary to re-record them onto md.Don't do the fake SP download anymore.I always record at 292 kbps in SP.Only my mzrh1 is himd compatible and some of my decks are non mdlp, so i'm an old school SP kinda dude, it sounds great anyhow.I assume that any of the kbps rates in the 300 range are all i need, since i'll always only end up with 292kbps, unless i go and store cd' as wav, record in PCM onto himd, and have to replace almost every piece i own with imported himd units, which would be very expensive and is pretty unlikely...thansk for any help or info.The responses and explanations i've gotten here have been very informative and well written, thansk to all forum members for their vast knowledge and advice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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The Low Volta Posted February 11, 2007 Report Share Posted February 11, 2007 - if you insist on using SS, go for Atrac advanced lossless in any of the bitrates (as you are going to transfer them in realtime, the bitrate doesn't matter as you'll be using the entire lossless file)...but...- as you're using realtime and won't use any of SS's features anyhow, why not switch to a better music library system like foobar2000 or something else and use the open lossless format: FLACJust use Exact Audio Copy to rip the CD's and install the FLAC codec so you can convert to FLAC automatically from within EAC (allt his is explained in the FLAC/EAC faqs you can easily find on the web and use foobar for gapless playback of the lossless files and you'll have: (1) the best quality SP you could get; (2) full SQ backup of the CD's you don't own ...eh... do own but want to backup just in case they might get burnt or something (the music industry might read this ) (3)a better, lighter, open source, free,... music library management system Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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