about to re-encode entire CD collection onto shiny new server.
I'm pretty much tied into itunes so was thinking ALAC was the way to go. I've heard however that FLAC is better but itunes/ipods doesn't like it. now theoretically i could just create 2 libraries, one for use on the hifi and one for the ipods and laptops in a compressed format.
Is there really much of a difference between the two, itunes doesn't seem to let you choose any settings when encoding to ALAC. I'd still have to keep an mp3 library on my laptop anyway but integration with my wireless music player into the hifi is nice and easy with itunes (it will cope with both ALAC and FLAC) and itunes will automatically compress stuff onto the ipod i believe.
it's mildly confusing thanks to the curse of itunes.....
