One important element of a ripper, besides sound quality, is getting the tags (electronic labels in the files) that let the Fuze find your music. (and they all sound good, not like the 64kbps CBR’s some have espoused here.) Also, the wma’s work perfectly well with the ReplayGain, too…which is one of the best features Sansa ever implemented.īasically, you need a good ripper and a way to organize the music. I have 3,700 songs on my Clip+, with room to spare for podcasts…try that with all 256 or 320 CBR. Note: I do these FLAC conversions with MediaMonkey, because as previously noted, WMP ■■■■■ as a ripper, and kind of gives WMA a bad rap because of it. So any of my CD’s that are ripped to FLAC, if they are gapless albums, I do a LAME V2 mp3 conversion (since my Clip+ now does gapless LAME mp3) and for my non-gapless albums, I convert the FLACs to 75% Quality-level WMA VBRs, which are even a little smaller filesize than LAME V2, but sound just as good. I have found that the V2 setting is a great compromise…filesize is far smaller than 256CBR, and quality-wise, I can’t distinguish V2 from FLAC (all our ears are different though). VBR is the way to go… even the highest quality setting, V0, saves space over 256 CBR…the bitrate varies in accordance with the complexity of the music. I will agree that FLAC is overkill for use on the actual player…but it is good to have on your hard drive.īut I have to say, all this good information here, and yet you’re recommending 256 or 320 CBR? For shame…that is 20th century tech. Message Edited by Black-Rectangle on 04-22-2010 09:32 PM
EAC and Foobar are also good, but they are slow. It has links to all the software that uses LAME. Do a test–rip to both, and see if you really need FLAC.įor more information about LAME, check out this page: I really think FLAC is overkill–computers can detect the difference between FLAC and high-quality mp3, but most humans can’t. Then go into Media Monkey’s settings and set mp3 quality to 256 kbps or 320 kbps, or to alt-preset-insane if you want the maximum sound quality. You’ll never have to think about it again (unless you feel like updating Lame sometime). Then find lame_enc.dll in Media Monkey (probably C:\Program Files\Media Monkey) and substitute the newer version of lame_enc.dll.įorget you ever did this. In the folder it makes, find lame_enc.dll and copy it. exe will create a Program Files folder called Lame for Audacity.
So after you install Media Monkey, immediately get the latest LAME from here. Its LAME encoder, lame_enc.dll, times out after a trial period. īut you have to do a geek trick to use it. Media Monkey is a good ripper with an interface similar to WMPlayer.Get the free version at.
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