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Can Anyone Please Walk Me Through This?

Hello Everyone.

There have been several threads that touch on the subject of lossless files for the Ipod, including my own posts describing my frustration "tagging" ordinary WAV files.

Although I still can't seem to find the right information in any one single place, an Audiogon friend recently told me that this whole business was a piece of cake with the latest version of Itunes.

Using Itunes or EAC (my old reference standard) could someone please tell me how to do the following in a Windows 2000 environment:

1) "Rip" individual tracks and/or entire CDs into my computer's drive in a true lossless or WAV format for maxium fidelity with no concern for storage space and

2) Do this in a way that preserves the track information, or at least permits easy "tagging" which will also transfer to the Ipod and

3) Extra credit: anything that enhances the ease and convenience of creating a library and/or contributes to maximum audiophile flexibility for other devices or formats or exportation to an external DAC.

Fingers crossed I might soon enjoy maximum fidelity for my big gig Ipod, even if I can only store a few CDs worth of content.

Thank you very much.
cwlondon

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dubzilla
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let's see...I don't use iTunes anymore, but I do remember that you set the cd-rip quality in one of the drop down menues at the top of the itunes console. Look around in Preferences and places like that.

If iTunes is open, and you put a cd in, you should see the round icon in the top right corner of itunes change to a symbol that says "encode/rip" or something like that when you drag your mouse over it.

some notes: iTunes lossless format is different than wav files, so you will be seeing smaller files once you get them ripped. Also, if I recall correctly, iTunes labels ripped cds for you.

You should be fine with a DAC running out of your pc as long as you use iTunes for playback. I believe their new lossless codec is proprietary.

Drop a line if you have any questions..
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