@tapeworm wrote:
But the question is, do they work on .wma files? or FLAC & OGG?
Tapeworm - hope these links can help you.
Basically you will do a single rip to flac. Then a single, double or triple encode, to the format of your choice, (wma, mp3 or ogg). Foobar 2000 supports replay gain while encoding out of flac files.
Honestly, I can build a computer faster than I can figure out software - it took me a while to figure out Foobar 2000, but once mastered it is a kick butt music software. If you want to get a great rip to flac, I suggest Exact Audio Copy (EAC), then use mp3tag on the flac files and rip away in Foobar 2000.
@I personally prefer ogg to mp3. For my Rockboxed Sansa c240 I rip everything to ogg @ 6.25 setting even though it has been stated that transparency is realized at 5. The file sizes are really not “that” huge and the sound quality (to my ears anyway) sound so close to flac/wav. It sounds good on the Fuze as well, but I wiped it clean and don’t use it anymore.
For various settings, check out the Hydrogen Audio Forum as the answers are there and there is excellent reading through out the forum and knowledge base.
Go to town and have a ball!
Best regards,
Mike
EDIT: Like I said me and software are like oil and water
I don’t use replay gain - I might have it reversed. It might be that the flac file gets volume leveled so all encodes out of flac are volume leveled.
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