[font=Arial][font=Arial]hello fellas,

i read through lots of topics and i started downloading all my music collection in lossless formats and would like to ask a couple of questions....
----some people got me confused saying there is a difference between lossless compression....
excluding the 24bit and higher method, please correct me if am wrong, LOSSLESS is LOSSLESS no matter what lossless encoder i use, the only thing could affect is compactibily with players plying them of the compression speed, right??

-----i like my collection organised, most of my music is in ape with cue sheets, but some flac,apple lossless
is there a sence converting these to ape making cue sheet (i thought to wave and then ape), am i going to loose some data? (this might be a stupid question...) or is this all not even worth the time

------for listening with portable players i use to encode to vbr q-2 using LAME front-end 1.0 with lame 3.97
sometimes it hapens usually listening to soundtracks, theres is a small click or how to name it for me an anoying soundt when 2 tracks and not really separetad by total silence....the way i use to deal with it is and please reply if this is all right: i convert the lossless file to wave, cut or turn the volume down when the track finishes, then save as wave again and convert using lame again ....
i'm not sure if there is a loss of quality....

----------the easiest way making ape or flac file with cue sheet???

thx for evety1 replying,

kind regard,

error: instead "of the compression speed, right??" should be "or the compression speed"" sorry for that....

might be you find some more, my english is very bad

Yes, all lossless audio codecs store the same audio data and sound the same. Or else they would be lossy.
They differ on several other areas though:
* Compression rate.
* Encoding and decoding speed.
* Software and hardware support.
* Licenses (ex. open or closed source).
* Additional features (replaygain, metadata, embed cue sheets, and more).

1 - All lossless codecs decode exactly to the same original file, by definition. There are other similarities, but that one is immutable.

2 - FLAC is the most compatible lossless playback codec in terms of diversity of OEM support. If that's important to you, transcode to FLAC. Otherwise, just pick what works for you and stick with it.

3 - The solution is to get a portable player that supports gapless MP3 playback.

4 - AutoFLAC, REACT, MAREO ... search for them on the forums here.