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Album art, windows and squeezecenter help

I need some help. I have been using windows media to rip cd's to wma lossless because i have a hard time believing there is any audible difference in lossless formats and that is the easiest tool. It rips, tags and provides artwork, even a monkey can do it. I use squeezecenter and a transporter for the rest of the equation. Every post I read relating to this subject suggests flac is the better format and eac the better ripping tool so I figured I would give it another try (I started this way but quickly changed). I had no trouble setting up eac and ripping but I cannot remember how to get artwork to squeezecenter. I can get the artwork and drag it into the folder eac creates in my music but i cannot get it over to sc.

So I suppose I am asking 2 questions...the first is simply about the artwork and the second is there really a difference between ripping tools and lossless formats...I mean an audible one...not just because that seems to be what everyone says...I have yet to hear a rationale explanation as to why...have you?
richard_stacy
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kgturner
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download tag&rename as i think you may have to associate the .jpg files with the metadata.

http://www.softpointer.com/tr.htm

i haven't heard a cogent argument pertaining to the audibile superiority of flac vs. wma lossless. i can't speak for wma lossless as i use flac. i know flac has a checksum error detection so if the file gets corrupted, it won't play. a wav file, for instance, can be minisculy corrupted and still play. so with flac, you know your data is 100% or it won't play. not sure if wma lossless has any manner of error detection built into it.

good luck with the .jpg issue!
blackstonejd
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I can hear a difference between Apple Lossless and Wav/AIFF, but not between Flac and Wav/Aiff. Maybe that SHOULDN'T be the case, but I think it is. Flac is the only lossless format I would use.
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moemoney
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I had the same issue with EAC and had to download the pic from Amazon and use a 3rd Party software (MP3Tag)to tag the pics to the FLAC files. MWA is ten times better. and sounds just as good. I just purchase Music Vault and that how they setup there product up, and what they recomement.
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moemoney
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that's WMA
richard_stacy OP
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i downloaded mp3tag and after messing around and figuring out how, i can attach a cover to a song file, then do a full clear and scan with squeezecenter and the art shows up (sometimes). but is seems i have to go through each song on an album and attach the cover to that song. is this what you guys do?

again, i am amazed at how easy this process is with windows, is there really a benefit from going through all these steps?
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