WAV to APE

[darkroompro]

Hello,

While reading through the documents in the converter, I note that it states "Note: it is always preferable to create proper Mp3 files with Mp3 (Lame) rather than a mp3-wave file." What I had in mind was to rip my CD's to WAV using Bits as Source/Freq as Source/Channels as Source, store those files on an old HDD that I have sitting around and then converting to APE files for playing on my system and also to MP3 files down the road.

Will I have better sound if I rip right to APE and MP3 ?

[RossRoy]

Re: WAV to APE

Doesn't matter, WAV is uncompressed audio when you rip right from the CD. But, you could rip directly to APE, Monkey Audio is lossless, so no quality is lost, and you save a step (WAV to APE) and can go directly from APE to MP3 in the future (I am guessing for a portable MP3 player). Just rip directly to APE files, takes roughly half the space and doesn't lose any quality in the audio.