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Title: Ripping CDs to AIFF format
Post by: pgilpat on October 17, 2011, 03:33:12 am

Ok, I give up, how can I rip CDs to AIFF format?  It will play AIFFs, but there is not an encoder listed, nor can I download.  Is it not supported yet?

Title: Re: Ripping CDs to AIFF format
Post by: JimH on October 17, 2011, 07:05:56 am

Quote from: pgilpat on October 17, 2011, 03:33:12 am

Ok, I give up, how can I rip CDs to AIFF format?  It will play AIFFs, but there is not an encoder listed, nor can I download.  Is it not supported yet?

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MC doesn't encode to AIFF.  FLAC or APE are equivalent choices.

Title: Re: Ripping CDs to AIFF format
Post by: pgilpat on October 18, 2011, 04:37:05 pm

But not so equivelent.  AIFF is the only uncompressed format handling all metadata.  without metadata, archival formats are useless.

Title: Re: Ripping CDs to AIFF format
Post by: Matt on October 18, 2011, 05:03:05 pm

Media Center supports WAV tagging.

APE and FLAC both have full metadata (tag) support in Media Center and just about any media player.  They're a better choice than WAV or AIFF since they incorporate error detection.

Title: Re: Ripping CDs to AIFF format
Post by: Jsegovia3 on November 08, 2012, 09:25:31 pm

Does APE make pit perfect rips of cd's ?

Title: Re: Ripping CDs to AIFF format
Post by: JimH on November 08, 2012, 09:36:42 pm

Yes.  The files are lossless.