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    I like how WavPack sounds more than FLAC. There is a plugin for winamp, though I think there might be better support for FLAC. To me wavpack files sound a little more natural.

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    I think that the advantage of Wave over Flac is that it uses less CPU activity (I guess!).
    And every player supports Wave.

    MP3 has the advantage of ID3-Tag files, but MP3 is a bit lower quality, however I do find that VBR Q0 (Highest Quality VBR) is good enough to me and it a lot smaller (about 5-6MB ~ 3 min song)

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    Flac has ID3 tags. I know because I'm writing them right now as I'm re-ripping my entire collection to Flac from mp3.

    I'm using Tag & Rename to add the ID3 tags.
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    I tried to do all of my FLAC music without the ID3 tags, I have read it causes some problems in some cases..

    I have yet to get Roadrunner to get the Native FLAC tags correctly, i am not sure what i am doing wrong..

    from the FLAC page:

    FLAC has it's own native tagging system which is identical to that of Vorbis. They are called alternately "FLAC tags" and "Vorbis comments". It is the only tagging system required and guaranteed to be supported by FLAC implementations.

    Out of convenience, the reference decoder knows how to skip ID3 tags so that they don't interfere with decoding. But you should not expect any tags beside FLAC tags to be supported in applications; some implementations may not even be able to decode a FLAC file with ID3 tags.

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    I had just thought about this after I posted....what I'm editing I suppose isn't ID3 tags, but rather the FLAC tags. From the Tag & Rename web site:

    Tag&Rename is a music files tag editor that easily handles all popular digital audio formats. No matter what music compressor you prefer, you can keep your music collection organized with Tag&Rename since it is the only tag editor and organizer which has full native support for: mp3 (ID3v1, ID3v2.2, ID3v2.3 and ID3v2.4 tags), MusePack mpc/mp+ (APEv1, APEv2 and ID3v1 tags), Windows Media wma, asf and wmv files, Ogg Vorbis/Flac/Speex (vorbis comments), Apple iTunes and iPod aac (m4a) files including mp4, lossless m4a and protected m4p files, most popular lossless codecs including Monkey's Audio, Flac, Wav Pack, Optim Frog, True Audio, Apple, Windows Media lossless and Wav.
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    lars, that is good info to know. I was just going to ask if RR recognizes flac tags.

    For renaming ID3 tags I like to use mp3collector @http://www.collectorz.com/. It also supports pretty much everything including FLAC and can catalog too.

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    RedGTiVR6: Forgive me for possibly not understanding you correctly here, but you say above I'm re-ripping my entire collection to Flac from mp3. That doesn't really make sense from the audio quality standpoint, because the end result can never be better than the source, so why bother converting mp3s to flac?

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    Quote Originally Posted by crooper View Post
    RedGTiVR6: Forgive me for possibly not understanding you correctly here, but you say above I'm re-ripping my entire collection to Flac from mp3. That doesn't really make sense from the audio quality standpoint, because the end result can never be better than the source, so why bother converting mp3s to flac?
    what Red is saying is that she is re-ripping her CD collection, not re-encoding them from MP3 to FLAC...
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    lol -

    yeah - ripping CDs to FLAC.
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    As for Roadrunner and FLAC tags, I must be doing something wrong in my configuration, as some others say it works fine..

    Winamp reads the tags fine though, so i just have to keep messing with RR to make it work,, It does get some tags in RR, although it says the artist is the song title...
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