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  1. Re: How to change the CD Drive in use if dbpa does not find it correctly?

    Thanks for your reply.
    No, I was wrong. As I had in the past also a Pioneer CD Drive, I immediately thought, this might the old one. In the meantime I could find out, that Melco does not produce cd...
  2. How to change the CD Drive in use if dbpa does not find it correctly?

    Dear All,

    I have recently purchased a new Melco D100 as my new cd drive, which I would like to use for my ripping project and which seems to my knowledge one of the best cd drives for ripping...
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    Re: FLAC or ALAC or both?

    Happy new year to all!
    As I am doing progress on my project ripping my full library into ALAC (mac user), I realised, that I do prefer Roon and would like to skip iTunes forever. Having that said,...
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    Re: FLAC or ALAC or both?

    Dear @garym,

    Happy new year!

    We were in contact some months ago with regards of the right choice between FLAC or ALAC. My project is still running, but I do make progress:-) However, was...
  5. Re: Accurate Rip Check for Hi-Re Purchases from Qobuz possible?

    Thank you, DAT EI.

    I thought, that if I download hi-re Files in ALAC from an official download store like Qobuz, I also get this checksum automatically, that is needed for an accurate-rip check,...
  6. Accurate Rip Check for Hi-Re Purchases from Qobuz possible?

    Dear All,

    I have the following question: I buy sometimes Hi-Re files (44,1 or 96 kHz/ 24bit ALAC) from the Qobuz online store. I assume that these files are of course bit-perfect, however, I...
  7. Re: Cover art of ALAC files not showing up in Mac Finder

    Does TuneFusion work with Apple as well? I have no Windows in my home....
  8. Re: Cover art of ALAC files not showing up in Mac Finder

    I agree! This is why I am already using Roon and Sonos more than iTunes, and I am willing to learn, how to get my music on my iphone, without the need of iTunes. However, this new issue drives me...
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    Re: FLAC or ALAC or both?

    no, not yet, since I hoped to find here in this forum already the answer or solution...
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    Re: FLAC or ALAC or both?

    okay, thank you!
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    Re: FLAC or ALAC or both?

    Dear Garym,

    I am already in contact with Spoon (maybe you have seen my new post),however, since you had really an answer for every question, that I had so far, I hope you can also help me with the...
  12. Re: Cover art of ALAC files not showing up in Mac Finder

    Thank you.

    This means for me, when I continue with my project as I did before, then all is good as long as dbpoweramp and also perfect tunes prove that the cover art is embedded, right?
    And,...
  13. Re: Cover art of ALAC files not showing up in Mac Finder

    hmmm, but why did it work, when I started my project a few weeks ago and all 50 albums showed cover art in the finder? Only from one day to the other (without copying them to the local hard drive), I...
  14. Re: Cover art of ALAC files not showing up in Mac Finder

    Hi Spoon,

    Thanks for your reply.

    I copied 2 LPs from the Source (Synology NAS) to the local HDD of my Mac Mini. In order to check any differences in behaviour, I picked one album, where the...
  15. Cover art of ALAC files not showing up in Mac Finder

    Dear All,

    I need help with the following issue:

    I am using dbPoweramp CD Ripper to rip my CDs to ALAC, as I am a Mac User. The files are stored on a Synology NAS drive, connected to my Mac. I...
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    Re: FLAC or ALAC or both?

    Thank you so much, your input was/is much appreciated. And know I also got what is all about this famous checksum, that hopefully I will never need:-) Once again, thank you!
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    Re: FLAC or ALAC or both?

    So, Garym, let me try to summarise all your advices, so that I should be ready to go:

    1) As I am living in an Apple environment, I will use the Apple Lossless format ALAC as my main audio format,...
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    Re: FLAC or ALAC or both?

    Yes, this is correct. My point here was, that if I go the extra mile of having a second library only for iTunes devices, then I could also rip into an Apple format with higher quality (even when I...
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    Re: FLAC or ALAC or both?

    ha, very good approach!

    Regarding Point 3: If I rip to ALAC, as you mentioned, and I would like to make this third step with a FLAC copy. Will I also get this checksum by using the dbpa music...
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    Re: FLAC or ALAC or both?

    Well said, thanks for this summmary!
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    Re: FLAC or ALAC or both?

    Thanks again, as always.

    Can you explain to me the difference between VBR or CBR? in the Settings, by default Bit Rate is ticked, and then I can adjust the Bit Rates from 8 to 512 kbps. When...
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    Re: FLAC or ALAC or both?

    Dear Garym,

    sorry, another point here:
    What are you recommendations, when converting an Apple Lossy Format (AAC):
    1) Should I tick under Target "Quality (VBR)" or "Bit Rate (CBR)?
    2) Which Bit...
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    Re: FLAC or ALAC or both?

    perfect, thanks for your help. I will go with Flac and then use Batch Converter to get my iTunes copies, as you recommended. And in this case, you are right, no need for ALAC, m4a versions should be...
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    Re: FLAC or ALAC or both?

    Hi Garym,

    thank you very much. some questions on your reply:
    1) You are right, Flac does not work with apple/iTunes. But these CRC checksums, that you mentioned, are they automatically built-in...
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    FLAC or ALAC or both?

    Dear All,

    I am currently planning to re-rip my full library to have them ideally in accurate rip (about 1,200 albums). I am a mac User, but I am using next to iTunes (for iphone) also Roon and...
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