To answer your original question (finally!) about mp3s, I believe the general consensus is that VBR V0 (highest setting) is the same quality as CBR at 320kbps. I don't claim to have the best ear, but I cannot tell the difference between 256kbps AAC and 320kbps mp3. Downloads from the iTunes store are 256kb AAC CBR. You'll get better quality at the same bit rate. With respect to lossy formats, if you're strictly within the Apple ecosystem, consider AAC instead of mp3. The quality will only be as good as the mp3/AAC. You can convert from mp3/AAC to ALAC/FLAC, but you'll never get back the lost info. If you start with mp3 or AAC (both lossy), you've lost some information right at the start. This will let you keep the high quality ALAC files on your Mac and still save space on your iPad/iPhone. If you're loading the files to an iPad/iPhone, iTunes has an option to convert the music to 128/192/256 kbps AAC as it is loaded to the device. This will give you the best quality, works with iTunes, and you can always convert to another format (lossless or lossy) in the future. You bought a good product.Ĭonsider ripping the files to Apple Lossless (ALAC). I haven't found a single disk yet where the downloaded information for ID3 tags made me happy 'as is'.You didn't make a mistake. PS - I rip everything to flac and strongly recommend it, not least because MP3 taggers handle flac like it was an MP3. Once again the $20 to register it is worthwhile. It does use 4 different databases, plus it works with many, many different codecs, easy as it can possibly be. I would recommend XREcode to you, even though it doesn't use Grace Note. My main ripper is DBPoweramp, my secondary one is XREcode II. That's not such a bad thing anyway, it's a damn fine player. The only one that uses Grace Note is WinAMP. I have about all the major players/rippers available. I've heard that Grace Note has the best cddb service so does anyone know of a good CD ripper that uses Grace Note as it's cddb option? I am currently using Bonkenc which works well but takes a while to recognise CDs. I stopped using WMP 11 as the ripper when it also added the CDs to its own library and I couldn't work out how to stop it from doing so. I have recently acquired a 1Tb external HD and am in the process of transferring my entire CD collection to it.
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