what's the max rate you can rip from a cd? i know the max rate is 320 kbps... but are cds usually written in that quality?

the original data uncompressed is 1411.2 kbps

so cd's are never compressed... i can rip all of them as wav's?

right, standard "Red Book" Audio CDs are never compressed and always the same format. Data CDs of course can store compressed music as files.

alright that clears things up.. thanks!

just keep in mind that data rate and sound quality do not necessarily correspond. if you have a track on an original CD, then rip it to MP3, and burn that MP3 as a new audio CD, both CDs will have a data rate of 1411.2 kbps, but the burned CD will actually have the same sound information as the MP3; anything lost in the MP3 encoding process can't be recovered.

ya i assumed that.. i was talking about ripping from original cds only

If you want the best of both worlds as well (Compressed music files with the quality of the original CD). You can rip the files into a lossless compression format such as Ogg Vorbis: http://www.vorbis.com/setup/

Flac is great for true lossless at 1/2 the size of a Wav

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do pioneer cdj's play flac or ogg though??

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Originally posted by JD8180 do pioneer cdj's play flac or ogg though??

No only "audio cds" or "mp3 cds"(data)


Flac is just great for lossless storage purposes.

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Originally posted by cmay119 If you want the best of both worlds as well (Compressed music files with the quality of the original CD). You can rip the files into a lossless compression format such as Ogg Vorbis: http://www.vorbis.com/setup/

Vorbis isn't lossless

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