Best Music Format for SD Card Music

[fredjones]

Does anyone rip their cds to sd card? If so what format sounds the best and what formats are supported?

[UmIsThisThingOn]

Does anyone rip their cds to sd card? If so what format sounds the best and what formats are supported?

MP3, AAC and WMA are supported. It's six of one, half dozen of the other really when it comes to preferences.

I prefer .mp3 since it's open source and can be played on anything these days - aac/wma not so much.

[Speedybrit]

i use .mp3. I have had both .aac and .mp3 played in the car and IMO .mp3 sounds crisper and better.

[Okan509]

flac alac!

flac is the best

[fredjones]

flac alac!

flac is the best

Flac is a good lossless way to rip your music, but I was asking about formats supported by our hardware.

[lockeed]

Is the flac format suported in the car? Anyone tried it?

[Übermensch]

casting my vote for .mp3

[aRa_a4]

One more vote for .mp3

[Okan509]

.mp3 sucks sorry guys...

you can put flac on sd cards.

flac disks work in our cars I don't see why it wouldn't on an SD card

[hender]

i would do the .flac bidness but they're as useful as .mkv files to me - can't be played on half the shit out there without some stupid workaround.

[FmL 50cmonsters]

.mp3 v0 (~245kbps) produces files half the size of .flac and unless you have the most epic system known to man, you couldn't tell the difference. Compatible with everything and as crisp as lossless, thats my vote.

[lockeed]

I have to disagree. There is a huge difference between FLAC/CD and MP3. Sound quality is rich, crisp, stereo delimitation and spatial representation is unrivalled, gain is much higher and you can feel subtle nuances or variations where with MP3, you only have so much bandwidth to work with... sound quality is affected in every way possible…

On the other hand, unless you have the Mark Levinson stereo in you car, the basic Audi stereo isn't impressive and that's probably the only real negative point I can find on that car… So making the difference between reference quality recordings and regular mp3 becomes a little bit harder…

[FmL 50cmonsters]

I will agree that flac is definitely better, but to answer the OP's question, MMI won't play flac off of an SD card so it's irrelevant. I mean you can try, but it's not in the list of supported file types. That being said, v0 is the best combination of size/quality/compatibility out there.

[Okan509]

Somebody try running an sd card with flac on it. I'm curious. Flac CD's work fine in my car, and it definitely is way better sound quality than mp3

[FmL 50cmonsters]

Just tried it, and got "No Playable Tracks Present." Unfortunately, not supported.

[hender]

i highly doubt you'd be able to tell a difference between FLAC and a decent mp3 file on the audi system, anyway

[Okan509]

i highly doubt you'd be able to tell a difference between FLAC and a decent mp3 file on the audi system, anyway

Between my ipod and a flac cd, you can almost instantly tell the difference.

[FmL 50cmonsters]

Between my ipod and a flac cd, you can almost instantly tell the difference.

Depends on the quality of the mp3. The crap you get on iTunes you could easily tell, but higher quality mp3's come very very close. 320kbps mp3 is almost indiscernible from flac on a stock stereo setup IMO. I don't want to carry around 10,000 tracks (my library) worth of flac cd's, so mp3's off of the SD works for me.

[Okan509]

Depends on the quality of the mp3. The crap you get on iTunes you could easily tell, but higher quality mp3's come very very close. 320kbps mp3 is almost indiscernible from flac on a stock stereo setup IMO. I don't want to carry around 10,000 tracks (my library) worth of flac cd's, so mp3's off of the SD works for me.

I don't buy off itunes, highest quality mp3 downloaded via torrents

[FmL 50cmonsters]

Alright right on man I didn't mean to be confrontational, you must have better hearing than I do. Doesn't really surprise me; mine hasn't been quite right in one ear since my motorcycle accident. But honestly I can't tell the difference.

[lockeed]

Well, don't want to carry this to the edge... but I found the .MP4 format on Itune to be very acceptable for a compressed file type... File size is also very interesting. Nevertheless, it's still compressed!

It's like when people come visit me and start to tell me there's no difference between DTS and True HD sound format in home theater... If you listen to your movies on a Iphone, don't bother talking to me about movies... But if you're an instruments/music/imagery/cinema geek as I am, you'll probably have a better idea of what I'm talking about! It usualy take about 30 seconds fot them to understand and see the difference once I sit them in my theater room....

And for the theater guys.....
http://s620.photobucket.com/albums/t...view=slideshow

[ThePiombino]

flac alac!

flac is the best

FLAC is good for archiving or if you have a retarded sound system. But if you're working with limited storage space and an OEM sound system to boot, there is absolutely no reason to do that. MP3 will be more than sufficient, expecially at about a 1-10 size ratio as FLAC.

[UmIsThisThingOn]

I've been toyin with the idea of re-ripping some of my favourite CDs to Apple Lossless so I can at least have some better quality on the iPod.

[Jluke]

Haven't anyone being able to play multichannel files on a B&O MMI 3G?
It can read DTS tracks off DVD's but I've not been able, yet, to have WAV/DTS files working from the SD cards... (neither DTS CD'S)

As I've a large multichannel library, I would be happy to play them in my car/B&O - it's not a real audiophile system, but it's quite good and the car environment, with well placed speakers, is an excellent place to listen discrete multichannel recordings...
Tks!

[routertyty]

And for the theater guys.....
http://s620.photobucket.com/albums/t...view=slideshow

Dang... that theater is impressive. I'm taking your word on the a/v stuff from now on. I wonder how my B&O system would sound with some FLAC music?