As far as "best lossy" goes, my conclusion was to go with MP3 because it is more universally usable (i.e. My overall strategy is to use the best lossy format possible for most albums, and only use lossless for albums dear to my heart or very refined (classical, acoustic jazz) To be honest mostly for archival purposes because even on my current rig I can barely discern a difference between both, and only on certain tracks, if I really focus on it (which is not particularly enjoyable, which in turn is really the reason for all this in the first place - enjoy music) (Apple officially released the ALAC spec, not that it wasn't already completely reverse-engineered anyway, so it won't become unusable anytime soon)
#Xld mp3 320 software#
I just use it as a player, pointing at said library, and to copy things on my iDevices.Īnd if I ever tire of Apple, my whole music library is completely independent, I could use any other player (iBasso.) or software on Windows or Linux point at my master folder and I would have the whole thing up and running in no time.
It can down-convert HQ FLAC files (24/192) to iPod compatible 24/48 ALAC very quickly, and most conveniently it supports Profiles, so you can make your own into a dropdown list ("Best lossy", "Original Lossless", "iPod Lossless" etc.) It also allows for file/folder formatting since I do not ever want iTunes to "manage" my carefully curated library. the "confidence" number you get in the log is the number of other rips in the database, took me a while to dig that up) It converts FLAC files extremely fast (at least on an SSD) It allows for album FLAC + cue sheet to be converted into song-by-song in any format. I'm using XLD for everything ripping & transcoding because it gives you way more control over every aspect than iTunes ever will, and I don't see how the quality will be any -less- since it uses the same OS libraries as iTunes for everything they both offer (AAC, ALAC) And it can dump the result straight into iTunes (just as if you were using iTunes' internal ripper/encoder). I did a bunch of listening and in the end I went with this: I also had the issue of (portable!) storage space vs. I went through this when I started re-organizing my library after getting into the whole head-fi thing.
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