I don't know how I missed this. Thank you so much. The Plex server is my quarantine project. I have been looking for something to rip my CDs to Flac. Exact Audio Copy is the best I have seen and it's free.
Nice work Lon. I've been using Audacity for years to rip CDs, LPs to FLAC. Works a treat, but I will give your suggested Exact Audio Copy software a try. In a past life I produced and presented on radio for about 8 years finally moving ito DAB+ (Digital Audio Broadcasting) about 10 years ago. We moved the majority of our audio content onto servers using the FLAC format which our licencing (broadcast, copyright & IP) permitted, but not MP3 which would have sounded awful if it was ever broadcast!
Lets see you do some audio books. Either older CD audio books (that used to be split up into hundreds of 3 minute tracks) or the other 1 large file per book format. Later on, they started selling audio books on CD in MP3 format - although those MP3's were normally at a pretty low bitrate. So- lets see or hear about audio books? Maybe not officially supported, but still... These are audio CD's, and they can be in FLAC, MP3 or other formats....
love your Plex vids hope Plex keeps up your sponsorship. Im a Plex pass customer from several years back and best thing I ever did. Still learning what all it can do too. Plex is definitely adding more to itself.
Thank you so much for showing off the smart playlist feature, because I never knew it existed and even held out over migrating fully to Plex partially due to that. Again, thank you SO MUCH.
Great video! I feel bad i signed up for the lifetime Plex pass without clicking your link over 2 years ago. Your videos really helped me use Plex as my media server for all. Thanks!
I've been doing this for quite some time and never use my CD player anymore after being introduced to Flac streaming. Good to know plex supports these types of files. I've been using foobar
Try the “Sweet Fades” option for gapless playback - doesn’t always work - but it works more often than it doesn’t - should be in Settings somewhere, depending on what device you are using!
Great stuff Lon. Nice to see we have similar music tastes. Marty Friedman and several others I saw there are some of my faves as well. Check out Neal Schon's solo work (outside of Journey) and I know you will really enjoy that If you havent already checked it out. Amazing solo instrumental guitar as well. Ive been working on my Plex server stuff a lot latelt. I have 3000+ CDs. (sadly a lot of them were ripped long ago with older 128 to 192 kbps and 256 if I was really lukcy) so I also have a lot of work to do. I tried Exact Copy but takes too long an i also encountered an error I couldnt figure out how to resolve. It worked and then some setting got chnaged and now it doesnt . I use Media Player to rip my FLACs and then clena up meta data and album cover info with MP3 tag. Very cool that Plex can allow you to share when on the road. I need to explore all the fearures as I did just buy the Plex Pass. My wife will enjoy the lyrics feature for sure.
U were ahead of your time maaan, I just got into Daps and I'm like why don't I use my CD's. Then I said if CD's are better quality than streaming then CD life it is.
Been ripping my CDs for many years in EAC using MP3/Lame at “insane” quality for import into iTunes. My collection was foldered similar to what you’re recommending here. Have just started using Plex and bought a Synergy NAS. The migration from iTunes to Plex was trivial in my experience. Love the added metadata capability. I might try the flac adventure to learn and test out the experience but will probably just stay with high quality MP3 format for compatibility and storage size. I find road noise impedes any major quality improvements a WAV file might provide anyway, especially on the highway or on my motorcycle. In my case a good quality MP3 is “good enough”. I draw the line at Bluetooth vs wired headphone connections, though. I can still hear the difference here.
EAC is the gold standard but there is another free program called CUETools and it includes something called CUERipper and it works very similar to EAC but it is much simpler and easier to set up than EAC. However if you want to use EAC please look up a guide. It's not rocket science BUT there is more to it (the whole set up process) than what Lon showed.
maybe its me, but your advise was to use Flac file format in the example you showed you were actually ripping to Wav, and you also didnt show how to configure Flac as the compression mode, would it be possible to add this?
I use Windows Media Player to rip my CDs to .wma, should I upgrade to .flac? Keep in mind that I normally just put my original CDs into my stereo (technically, it's a 90s Sony boombox) and they sound amazing.
ericbazinga there is no good reason to rip to .wma. Windows Media Player will also rip to .mp3. Just change it in the settings and rip to the highest quality. Like he said in the video, unless you are listening with high quality headphones and speakers you won't notice a difference between that and FLAC.
How much control is there over sorting? I use Logitech Media Server and that has custom sorting tags. I use the artist and album custom sort tags to enforce sorts as I want them, e.g. for a "Dave Matthews" album I would set the custom artist sort tag to "Matthews, Dave" to make sure it shows under "M". The one I mainly use though is custom album sort where I set all the custom album sort tag on all my tracks to "artist-surname, artist-first-name, year-of-album-release" so if I browse in album view I see things arranged as I used to arrange my CD racks, i.e. CDs grouped by artists and, when I could be bothered, each artist's albums on the shelf arranged left to right in order of release date. Does Plex have similar custom sort tags to override the standard artist and album sorting?
Thank you so much for producing and sharing this and similar videos on Synology and Plex. All I know so far about these products are from your videos! I recently started to save my audio CDs on my Synology NAS. It worked for ca. 850 CDs like a dream and the music in FLAC format sounds really superb! However I came across one problem: I have another ca. 60 CDs where EAC got stuck on the last track. It is just hanging and the you can hear the CD drive giving this awful click, click, click noise. I tried restarting but to no avail. Would you or another reader know what's happening here? Again - many thanks for all your videos.
Actually regular audio CD isn't the same level with "Master Quality" and stuff.. There are other "Master Quality" audio format, and the latest one is MQA Audio.. Good thing is, one of its packaging are good old CD (among other)..
Except MQA-CD is very limited in terms of availabilty of content and playback equipment globally as it has beed developed PRIMARILY for the Japanese domestic market. Finding native audio equipment and/or a DAC audio converters to playback the format are as scarce as hen's teeth. This format together with other 'Hi-Res' audio formats MQS-SD, Blue-ray Audio & SACD will not have too much bearing on the average user as the availabilty of content is rare in all these formats. Esoteric formats have been with us for about 70 years since your grand parents used shallac based 78 records and your parents came home with 33 1/3 vinyl LP records. Anybody using these Hi-Res fomats who can afford the necessary hardware and are happy with having a scarcity of content is probably not a likely candidate to be seeking out a Plex server to playback audio on the fly... ;)
Bruce Herford ultimately agree with the comment. While res audio is a really tempting, it is a pretty niche market. I mean, besides the content, only a handful of people who are willing to pay 20.000 USD on a dedicated music player, or a DAC, not to mention the insane price of audiophile speakers. (Though I am sure they will be sounding really good) And for me personally, a high quality setting on spotify plus an old soundbar of mine is already more than enough to listen on my favourite tune :) P.S : i skipped the era of collecting CDs. Went straight from cassete to digital streaming lol.
I am interested in knowing how Plex handles multiple copies of the same album (yes I am that old, they are still albums to me), say FLAC and MP3 formats of the same album... Similar to having a 720 and 1080p version of the same movie. I might have missed it in the video, but does Plex recognize different formats as the same album? and how does it decide what to play?
Am I doing something wrong.? My DTS files are not playing even after in depth inspection while converting via EAC. They seem to play fine on other media servers, but PLEX does not play them. Maybe ist a limitation on Nvidia shield pros? I hear something akin to white Noice. Am I missing a setting in Plex? The Plex library seems to recognize .flac files (but not .wav) Both the .wave and .flac files play fine with the media server of my Sony 4K player, extracted by EAC. Plex just seem to not offer playback.
I have a Synology server, 5 bays, 40TB of space and have a few apps installed including Plex. I like to store things in folders so they are organized and easy to find. I am confused, however, about how to save all my music on Synology under Plex? I have been creating a folder for each artist and moving the albums into corresponding folders. So, I would create an Eric Clapton folder and within it I have albums like 2 Nights, Clapton and so on. But since I have over 4,000 CD's, I am wondering is this the best way to do it or should I just drag each CD's folder from iTunes (or the location were this folder is located) into Plex? Thank you for your help.
haven't read all comments but I started using dbpoweramp for ripping to flac - about 2 1/2 years ago. No sitting around for half an our waiting. alternatively i use cue tools' cueripper. i might be missing it somewhere but is there a way to transport plex playlists to things like bubbleupnp? webapp soundiiz doesn't (seem to) do that??
Multichannel Music on Plex??? From ripping disks (Blu Ray Audio, DVD-A, DVD music and SACD), to supported formats, to adding and organizing to Plex (or better options?) to playback. It seems cumbersome at best at tis point. New Beatles Abbey Road in Atmos??
Would also add for an 8 minute track (Brand New CD) it has taken 2 hours to copy 70% of the first track this cant be right - Must be doing something wrong can anyone help?
IMDABROWN dont you have any old internal dvd, or cd drive for desktop pcs on your house? If yes, any sata to usb adapter ( even the cheap ones) will work!
Actually no. the last PC I built 3 years ago was a bear-bone and when it died a few weeks ago I took everything except the guts to the recycling place. The USB external I just bought 2 months ago because I needed to burn a DVD for work.
I haven't ripped a CD in ages. I just use Spotify right now and stream everything through the Sonos speakers controlled by Echo. Is there a skill for the Echo to play songs from Plex? I have been using Kodi for movies for a while now but have been debating to switch to Plex just because I don't trust Kodi.
iTunes does not have the capability to check the rip for errors. Despite being a digital format, the CD format is not easy to rip error free and that is why programs like EAC were made.
FulciLives it has ‘Use error correction when reading Audio CDs’. I’ve ripped 3073 CDs with little trouble. I did however, clean every cd before insert; this was years and years ago.
Another great app for FLAC and other hi end codecs for Andoris is Hi-Def Cast. Connects to my NAS server and can play ALL formats and also has great GUI. WIsh they had it for iOs so my wife could use it as well so Im stuck. I dont want to have to rip BOTH ALAC and FLAC just for her use so I hope I can get Plex to transcode my FLACs (1 format to rule them all) to something her iOs phone can read from our LAN.
great, half an hour for 1 CD. I'll be 80 or dead when my collection is ripped. In other words, instead of listening to the music, I'll just be watching a green line very slowly progressing to the end, and start with the next green line.
Dude, rip the disk at full speed to an image, verify it and then work off the image. You don't wanna put all that wear on your optical drive and it should be a lot faster.
it doesnt take 30 min to rip!!!! I have ripped hundreds of CDs at high speed into FLAC with EAC and never had issues... it will slow down and keep reading to get an accurate rip if it has issues... then it gives you an accuracy report at the end..... I have 1000+ CDs and if I spend 30 min ripping each one, I'd be dead before they finish!
Hey Lon... Love your views, on all thing Plex. Concerning Plex for Android VER 7. There's been a lot of less-than-stellar feedback, posted on forums about this version, since it's release over a month ago. I imagine that you've been testing this and will chime in with your feelings on this latest version, sooner than later. Looking forward to it. Again, great videos and thank you. For those not in the loop, see... forums.plex.tv/t/the-new-version-of-the-mobile-app-is-worthless/238720/55
Not saying they dont but CDs are downsampled to 16/44.1.... you can buy master audio tracks but you need a DAC capable of playing them and the files are large
Most so-called HD tracks you can buy are poorly mastered. At least this has been my experience when it comes to Classic Rock and you can forget getting film score music in HD formats (except for the newest stuff like The Avengers and I'm not into newer stuff from that genre).
I don't know how I missed this. Thank you so much. The Plex server is my quarantine project. I have been looking for something to rip my CDs to Flac. Exact Audio Copy is the best I have seen and it's free.
This was my 'Co-Vid' project too. Hope all went well!
Excellent excellent piece. I’m an audiophile and have purchased many flac files. I have a pc with dual drives just sitting getting dusty.
Wow. Donald fagen, Bon jovi, Enigma, eric clapton... what a eclectic taste you have. Thats great!
Nice work Lon. I've been using Audacity for years to rip CDs, LPs to FLAC. Works a treat, but I will give your suggested Exact Audio Copy software a try. In a past life I produced and presented on radio for about 8 years finally moving ito DAB+ (Digital Audio Broadcasting) about 10 years ago. We moved the majority of our audio content onto servers using the FLAC format which our licencing (broadcast, copyright & IP) permitted, but not MP3 which would have sounded awful if it was ever broadcast!
Wait? You did that? Good for you. 👏👏👏
Lets see you do some audio books. Either older CD audio books (that used to be split up into hundreds of 3 minute tracks) or the other 1 large file per book format. Later on, they started selling audio books on CD in MP3 format - although those MP3's were normally at a pretty low bitrate.
So- lets see or hear about audio books? Maybe not officially supported, but still... These are audio CD's, and they can be in FLAC, MP3 or other formats....
love your Plex vids hope Plex keeps up your sponsorship. Im a Plex pass customer from several years back and best thing I ever did. Still learning what all it can do too. Plex is definitely adding more to itself.
Thank you so much for showing off the smart playlist feature, because I never knew it existed and even held out over migrating fully to Plex partially due to that. Again, thank you SO MUCH.
Great video! I feel bad i signed up for the lifetime Plex pass without clicking your link over 2 years ago. Your videos really helped me use Plex as my media server for all. Thanks!
I've been doing this for quite some time and never use my CD player anymore after being introduced to Flac streaming. Good to know plex supports these types of files. I've been using foobar
Gotta day your musical choice surprised the heck out of me. Are you a big Megadeth fan???
I wish Plex have gapless playback and equalizer. Please forward this message to your friends at Plex.
Try the “Sweet Fades” option for gapless playback - doesn’t always work - but it works more often than it doesn’t - should be in Settings somewhere, depending on what device you are using!
Great stuff Lon. Nice to see we have similar music tastes. Marty Friedman and several others I saw there are some of my faves as well. Check out Neal Schon's solo work (outside of Journey) and I know you will really enjoy that If you havent already checked it out. Amazing solo instrumental guitar as well. Ive been working on my Plex server stuff a lot latelt. I have 3000+ CDs. (sadly a lot of them were ripped long ago with older 128 to 192 kbps and 256 if I was really lukcy) so I also have a lot of work to do. I tried Exact Copy but takes too long an i also encountered an error I couldnt figure out how to resolve. It worked and then some setting got chnaged and now it doesnt . I use Media Player to rip my FLACs and then clena up meta data and album cover info with MP3 tag. Very cool that Plex can allow you to share when on the road. I need to explore all the fearures as I did just buy the Plex Pass. My wife will enjoy the lyrics feature for sure.
I do Test&Copy with EAC. Been using it since back when he asked for postcards from users.
For Linux I've used Sound Juicer or Audex to rip to FLAC. Ripping to FLAC has been available to Linux for quite a while.
Thanks for the information!
U were ahead of your time maaan, I just got into Daps and I'm like why don't I use my CD's. Then I said if CD's are better quality than streaming then CD life it is.
Been ripping my CDs for many years in EAC using MP3/Lame at “insane” quality for import into iTunes. My collection was foldered similar to what you’re recommending here. Have just started using Plex and bought a Synergy NAS. The migration from iTunes to Plex was trivial in my experience. Love the added metadata capability. I might try the flac adventure to learn and test out the experience but will probably just stay with high quality MP3 format for compatibility and storage size. I find road noise impedes any major quality improvements a WAV file might provide anyway, especially on the highway or on my motorcycle. In my case a good quality MP3 is “good enough”. I draw the line at Bluetooth vs wired headphone connections, though. I can still hear the difference here.
EAC is the gold standard but there is another free program called CUETools and it includes something called CUERipper and it works very similar to EAC but it is much simpler and easier to set up than EAC. However if you want to use EAC please look up a guide. It's not rocket science BUT there is more to it (the whole set up process) than what Lon showed.
maybe its me, but your advise was to use Flac file format in the example you showed you were actually ripping to Wav, and you also didnt show how to configure Flac as the compression mode, would it be possible to add this?
I use Windows Media Player to rip my CDs to .wma, should I upgrade to .flac? Keep in mind that I normally just put my original CDs into my stereo (technically, it's a 90s Sony boombox) and they sound amazing.
ericbazinga there is no good reason to rip to .wma. Windows Media Player will also rip to .mp3. Just change it in the settings and rip to the highest quality. Like he said in the video, unless you are listening with high quality headphones and speakers you won't notice a difference between that and FLAC.
How much control is there over sorting? I use Logitech Media Server and that has custom sorting tags. I use the artist and album custom sort tags to enforce sorts as I want them, e.g. for a "Dave Matthews" album I would set the custom artist sort tag to "Matthews, Dave" to make sure it shows under "M". The one I mainly use though is custom album sort where I set all the custom album sort tag on all my tracks to "artist-surname, artist-first-name, year-of-album-release" so if I browse in album view I see things arranged as I used to arrange my CD racks, i.e. CDs grouped by artists and, when I could be bothered, each artist's albums on the shelf arranged left to right in order of release date. Does Plex have similar custom sort tags to override the standard artist and album sorting?
This just made me tempted to try out Plex Pass
you can now edit smartplaylists
wish I could figure out multichannel music on plex and increasingly atmos versions such as the beatles' abbey road
Is it possible to import smart playlists from iTunes?
I use XLD on Mac
Anyone has a recommendation on a iso converter for Mac , cos I have a bunch of iso files but plex don’t recognize them
Note the EAC os up to 1.6 now, and freeDB will not show up on the setup, but it is there.
Thanks Lon, your video made my day. Your work is excellent, and very informative.
Excellent Album from Marty!
Great video! I'm enjoying Plex more and more everyday.
Thank you so much for producing and sharing this and similar videos on Synology and Plex. All I know so far about these products are from your videos! I recently started to save my audio CDs on my Synology NAS. It worked for ca. 850 CDs like a dream and the music in FLAC format sounds really superb! However I came across one problem: I have another ca. 60 CDs where EAC got stuck on the last track. It is just hanging and the you can hear the CD drive giving this awful click, click, click noise. I tried restarting but to no avail. Would you or another reader know what's happening here? Again - many thanks for all your videos.
Have you tried it on a different CD-ROM drive / PC? Sounds to me like the disc may have some bit rot where air got in between the layers of the disc.
Actually regular audio CD isn't the same level with "Master Quality" and stuff..
There are other "Master Quality" audio format, and the latest one is MQA Audio..
Good thing is, one of its packaging are good old CD (among other)..
Except MQA-CD is very limited in terms of availabilty of content and playback equipment globally as it has beed developed PRIMARILY for the Japanese domestic market. Finding native audio equipment and/or a DAC audio converters to playback the format are as scarce as hen's teeth. This format together with other 'Hi-Res' audio formats MQS-SD, Blue-ray Audio & SACD will not have too much bearing on the average user as the availabilty of content is rare in all these formats. Esoteric formats have been with us for about 70 years since your grand parents used shallac based 78 records and your parents came home with 33 1/3 vinyl LP records.
Anybody using these Hi-Res fomats who can afford the necessary hardware and are happy with having a scarcity of content is probably not a likely candidate to be seeking out a Plex server to playback audio on the fly... ;)
Bruce Herford ultimately agree with the comment.
While res audio is a really tempting, it is a pretty niche market.
I mean, besides the content, only a handful of people who are willing to pay 20.000 USD on a dedicated music player, or a DAC, not to mention the insane price of audiophile speakers. (Though I am sure they will be sounding really good)
And for me personally, a high quality setting on spotify plus an old soundbar of mine is already more than enough to listen on my favourite tune :)
P.S : i skipped the era of collecting CDs. Went straight from cassete to digital streaming lol.
What's on the 5-1/4" disks hiding behind the 3-1/2" on your shelf
I am interested in knowing how Plex handles multiple copies of the same album (yes I am that old, they are still albums to me), say FLAC and MP3 formats of the same album... Similar to having a 720 and 1080p version of the same movie.
I might have missed it in the video, but does Plex recognize different formats as the same album? and how does it decide what to play?
I like adding to playlists manually as filters add songs I don't want.
Ripped my CD collection with Apple Lossless, took me around 9 month to do my collection, do you suggest I do them again with the FLAC ?
I am pretty sure you can drag those Apple Lossless files in there too, give it a shot and let me know!
Tried some and yes they do :)
Am I doing something wrong.? My DTS files are not playing even after in depth inspection while converting via EAC. They seem to play fine on other media servers, but PLEX does not play them. Maybe ist a limitation on Nvidia shield pros? I hear something akin to white Noice. Am I missing a setting in Plex? The Plex library seems to recognize .flac files (but not .wav) Both the .wave and .flac files play fine with the media server of my Sony 4K player, extracted by EAC. Plex just seem to not offer playback.
I was actually interested in using Plex for my FLAC listening on the road, but no FLAC on iPhone? Seriously poor decision. :(
Mikko Rantanen that’s apples choice . Since the start Apple has preferred their proprietary formats.
This is an old thread but now you can edit playlist on the plex mac app but not in a browser.
Hello, I'm new to Plex. Can you recommend an inexpensive NAS and everything I need for the start up? Thank you for the awesome videos!
Didn't Marty Friedman work with Kitaro on Scenes? I ripped a Kitaro album today; fun coincidence.
He did ! I think Kitaro produced the album.
I have a Synology server, 5 bays, 40TB of space and have a few apps installed including Plex. I like to store things in folders so they are organized and easy to find. I am confused, however, about how to save all my music on Synology under Plex? I have been creating a folder for each artist and moving the albums into corresponding folders. So, I would create an Eric Clapton folder and within it I have albums like 2 Nights, Clapton and so on. But since I have over 4,000 CD's, I am wondering is this the best way to do it or should I just drag each CD's folder from iTunes (or the location were this folder is located) into Plex?
Thank you for your help.
Thankyou! This worked for me!
haven't read all comments but I started using dbpoweramp for ripping to flac - about 2 1/2 years ago. No sitting around for half an our waiting. alternatively i use cue tools' cueripper.
i might be missing it somewhere but is there a way to transport plex playlists to things like bubbleupnp? webapp soundiiz doesn't (seem to) do that??
For Linux use ABCDE from the command line
Multichannel Music on Plex??? From ripping disks (Blu Ray Audio, DVD-A, DVD music and SACD), to supported formats, to adding and organizing to Plex (or better options?) to playback. It seems cumbersome at best at tis point. New Beatles Abbey Road in Atmos??
Would also add for an 8 minute track (Brand New CD) it has taken 2 hours to copy 70% of the first track this cant be right - Must be doing something wrong can anyone help?
Been using EAC for many years since it was in beta and I have yet to find anything better.
My latest laptop (Alienware 15) didn’t have an optical drive . I had to buy n external drive to rip some music.
IMDABROWN dont you have any old internal dvd, or cd drive for desktop pcs on your house? If yes, any sata to usb adapter ( even the cheap ones) will work!
Actually no. the last PC I built 3 years ago was a bear-bone and when it died a few weeks ago I took everything except the guts to the recycling place. The USB external I just bought 2 months ago because I needed to burn a DVD for work.
IMDABROWN day
Who Taught you to keep CD in that way?
Can you download the music you stored into plex?
Thank you
Is there a Linux version or something similar??
The program just gives me a file of nothing? Literally no audio gets copied over
This is what I want to know exactly !!! Thank you so much for good tips~ ;)
I haven't ripped a CD in ages. I just use Spotify right now and stream everything through the Sonos speakers controlled by Echo. Is there a skill for the Echo to play songs from Plex? I have been using Kodi for movies for a while now but have been debating to switch to Plex just because I don't trust Kodi.
There is a plex skill, yes and it will play from your plex music library
Which program is better?
EAC Or dBpoweramp to rip cds?
eac with eyes closed, but is quite difficult to handle!!!
Just got Plex lifetime via ur affiliate link. Hopefully u got the bonus bucks.
I’ve always just used iTunes to rip in ALAC, and organise folders and then roonlabs.
iTunes does not have the capability to check the rip for errors. Despite being a digital format, the CD format is not easy to rip error free and that is why programs like EAC were made.
FulciLives it has ‘Use error correction when reading Audio CDs’. I’ve ripped 3073 CDs with little trouble. I did however, clean every cd before insert; this was years and years ago.
Another great app for FLAC and other hi end codecs for Andoris is Hi-Def Cast. Connects to my NAS server and can play ALL formats and also has great GUI. WIsh they had it for iOs so my wife could use it as well so Im stuck. I dont want to have to rip BOTH ALAC and FLAC just for her use so I hope I can get Plex to transcode my FLACs (1 format to rule them all) to something her iOs phone can read from our LAN.
Way too much to do just in order to get your music on Plex!
so, are you a Megadeath fan too; or just Marty Friedman?
Mostly Marty but my college roommate got me into Megadeath too.
As a mac user.... I didn’t understand a word you said.
great, half an hour for 1 CD. I'll be 80 or dead when my collection is ripped. In other words, instead of listening to the music, I'll just be watching a green line very slowly progressing to the end, and start with the next green line.
Dude, rip the disk at full speed to an image, verify it and then work off the image. You don't wanna put all that wear on your optical drive and it should be a lot faster.
it doesnt take 30 min to rip!!!! I have ripped hundreds of CDs at high speed into FLAC with EAC and never had issues... it will slow down and keep reading to get an accurate rip if it has issues... then it gives you an accuracy report at the end..... I have 1000+ CDs and if I spend 30 min ripping each one, I'd be dead before they finish!
Anybody know if Plex supports 24 bit 192 FLAC
phil brown Yeah it does
I like Jellyfin, but Plex is okay.
Hey Lon... Love your views, on all thing Plex. Concerning Plex for Android VER 7. There's been a lot of less-than-stellar feedback, posted on forums about this version, since it's release over a month ago. I imagine that you've been testing this and will chime in with your feelings on this latest version, sooner than later. Looking forward to it. Again, great videos and thank you.
For those not in the loop, see...
forums.plex.tv/t/the-new-version-of-the-mobile-app-is-worthless/238720/55
I’m looking at him manhandling that CD like 😣.
He's triggering me by the way he is holding the disc. Ugh.
CDs are not master level audio... LOL
They sure beat the quality of iTunes purchased music or MP3 purchases.
Not saying they dont but CDs are downsampled to 16/44.1.... you can buy master audio tracks but you need a DAC capable of playing them and the files are large
I refuse to buy low grade itunes anything and prefer to rip my own
Most so-called HD tracks you can buy are poorly mastered. At least this has been my experience when it comes to Classic Rock and you can forget getting film score music in HD formats (except for the newest stuff like The Avengers and I'm not into newer stuff from that genre).
Not all... Some shady sources do this.... people fake FLAC as well but there is verification software out there