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[nickharambee]

hi

i have my music collection stored as ape files, but i am in the process of converting them to FLAC.  At the moment I am not sure whether to use MC or foobar for this process.  One factor is that in foobar there is an option to convert bit depth from 16 bits to 24 bits during conversion.  As i have a 24 bit soundcard i thought that this would be a good thing to do.  My preference though is to use MC for the conversion, as tagging is easier (i have to use Masstagger in foobar to get the tags right), but there doesn't seem to be a similar option to convert bit depth.

so my questions are:

(i) is it worth converting the bit depth?
(ii) can i do this using MC?
(iii) if the answer to question (i) is yes and (ii) is no, is there a simple way of doing this using some other software?

thanks

nick

[Alex B]

(i) no
(ii) no
(iii) it wasn't   

You really don't want to alter your original lossless files, believe me. The files would not be lossless after that. You may want to use 24-bit output in MC whenever you have enabled any kind of DSP processing: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=30843.msg212330#msg212330.

[nickharambee]

thanks alex