What is the best lossless encoder?

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Posted: 08-12-2005

honorelsu (New on Forum): Posts: 18

I have a copy of Dave Brubeck Quartet Album Timeout and I wanted to keep the integrity of the audio on the disc and encode it with a lossless format and a one to one copy if possible to back up to another cd. What is the best way to go about doing this?

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Posted: 08-12-2005

seeker010 (CDFreaks Resident): Posts: 671

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Originally Posted by honorelsu

EAC w/ flac

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Posted: 09-12-2005

NRen2k5 (MyCE Senior Member): Posts: 476

Yeah.

All things considered (compression ratio, compatibility, encoding speed, decoding CPU usage, error robustnes…) FLAC is very good. Monkey's Audio will give you a slightly better compression ratio than FLAC, but corruptions in a Monkey's Audio file can render the entire file unplayable. (Very poor error robustness.)

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Posted: 10-12-2005

Slammy1 (CD Freaks Junior Member): Posts: 87

How does WMA lossless fit into the scheme? I like its compatability w/ a wide range of programs.

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Posted: 10-12-2005

drpino (CDFreaks Resident): Posts: 4,916

http://losslessaudio.blogspot.com/

SHORTEN (SHN) is also a very common lossless codec...

stay away from proprietary lossless codecs like WMA lossless, Apple lossless and the new Sony ATRAC lossless...instead use open-sourced and/or non-commercial ones for future-proofability and higher compatibility...

good comparison on most all lossless codecs here:
http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index....ess_comparison

and based on that info...WavPack seems to be the most feature-rich codec...

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Posted: 10-12-2005

eltranquil (CDFreaks Resident): Posts: 4,533

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Originally Posted by drpino

good comparison on most all lossless codecs here:
http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index....ess_comparison

and based on that info...WavPack seems to be the most feature-rich codec...

Cool! Thanks drpino!

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Posted: 10-12-2005

Slammy1 (CD Freaks Junior Member): Posts: 87

Cool, thanks. With all the various sources out there, this site really does provide something unique to the world that the bigger sites can't compete with. Plus it's a lot less flamey than some of the bigger audiophile sites.

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Posted: 10-12-2005

drpino (CDFreaks Resident): Posts: 4,916

np guys!

another decent source (but in french...you can always translate it via Google):
http://foobar2000.net/lossless/

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Posted: 11-12-2005

bcn_246 (Top Referrer): Posts: 3,626

Personally I like FLAC, never had a single error, and the files are allways exactly the same size as the the orignal once compressed>decompressed using the FLAC frontend. Not tried it yet, but apparently it works very well with EAC.

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Posted: 18-12-2005

whatspiracy (New on Forum): Posts: 7

WavPack is the way to go.

Only downside is it lacks much hardware compatibility

WavPack is compatible w/ your portable player if you use the Open Source RockBox firmware.

http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/TargetStatus shows which players currently work w/ RockBox

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