Basic Lossless Ripping and Server Advice?

[Poobah]

I'm sitting at my Computer Desk with a box full of Cd's and more boxes in waiting... I want put them all on my harddrive, in a lossless format.

I'm new to this... I assume WAV files would be lossless, but they seem to take 50 megs or more per Song. Is there another Lossless format that does use some basic Lossless Compression?

My end purpose of this is to serve lossless music to my Equipment via either a Mac mini, or Sonus (and eventually through a nice Dac).

Which Music Format Should I use?
Which would work better, Sonus or Mac Mini?
Or anything else that comes to mind?

[Still-One]

Originally Posted by Poobah

I'm sitting at my Computer Desk with a box full of Cd's and more boxes in waiting... I want put them all on my harddrive, in a lossless format.

I'm new to this... I assume WAV files would be lossless, but they seem to take 50 megs or more per Song. Is there another Lossless format that does use some basic Lossless Compression?

My end purpose of this is to serve lossless music to my Equipment via either a Mac mini, or Sonus (and eventually through a nice Dac).

Which Music Format Should I use?
Which would work better, Sonus or Mac Mini?
Or anything else that comes to mind?

My suggestion is to go here and you will get the answers you are looking for. There are many options.

http://www.computeraudiophile.com/co...yle-GD3-Review

Jim

[Kippyy]

Max and Rip are softwares designed for Mac's that encode as AIFF or Apple Lossless and are supposed to be higher quality, more accurate rips than itunes offers. There is much debate as to whether this difference is audible, but hey, why not use the best. Free software and easy to figure out.

[Still-One]

Here is a good page to start.

Computer Audiophile Academy | Computer Audiophile

[Poobah]

Thanks guys.

That link helped.. Although I started before I had a chance to read them... I ended up going with Apple Lossless simply cause it seemed to envolve very little thought on my part. (as I had Itunes already installed.)

I'll likely order a Moded Sonos tomorrow... And then I'll continue to think about which DAC I'll be getting to make the most magic of it I can.

[-E-]

FLAC is your best bet for sound quality + space saving, and ability to be heard in a myriad of players.

WAV is the highest possible sound quality but you will lose most of your ability to store any sort of metadata.

Good luck!