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Title: aiff encoding when ripping cds?
Post by: soundidea on December 23, 2012, 08:34:50 pm

I'm new to the JRiver MediaCenter and am enjoying it so far as I organize my libraries and looking forward to very high quality playback.  Is there a way to use aiff encoding when ripping cds?  Seems to me that since apple lossless and flac have been shown to degrade over time to not being bit perfect, and space is inexpensive, and wav files don't properly support tags, I'd like to use aiff.  Any ideas?
Nelson

Title: Re: aiff encoding when ripping cds?
Post by: Yaobing on December 23, 2012, 08:54:16 pm

We support tagging for WAV as well as AIFF.  In fact tagging is done the same way in both formats.

Title: Re: aiff encoding when ripping cds?
Post by: soundidea on December 24, 2012, 12:56:29 am

If I change the extension, will it be an aiff sound file in its structure and be read by iTunes and all the meta-data properly exposed?  If not, is there an aiff encoder plug-in for JRiver?

I record AES multi-phonic broadcast wave files for film sound.  I hope there will be a universal, scalable uncompressed wave file format that has all the flexible metadata wrapper structure to handle all the different aspects desired, included multi-track, Time Code and embedded info, like lyrics.
Nelson

Title: Re: aiff encoding when ripping cds?
Post by: JimH on December 24, 2012, 07:06:21 am

MC18 has native support for AIFF.

Title: Re: aiff encoding when ripping cds?
Post by: soundidea on December 25, 2012, 02:43:06 pm

Thanks Guys.  I was using the Jukebox 14.  I now have MC18 installed and yes, horray, aiff encoding is native.

I have it streaming to my new OPPO BDP-103 and have MC18 setup as the dlna server.  The setup sounds very good!  I'm going to stream some  24bit/192kHz HD tracks and see if I can configure the overall system to sound it best.

Thanks again.  Nelson

Title: Re: aiff encoding when ripping cds?
Post by: Urbanito on December 25, 2012, 02:49:30 pm

FLAC doesn't degrade with time, IMO.
I will use it.