Monkey's Audio/ape

[dingoBaby]

I ripped some of my cd's using APE and I really like it. The files are huge but the quality is excellent. Anybody using this or any other lossless format?

[sparsely]

OGG and mp3 are the only formats I've used...but I got the encoder and EAC profile for MPC ripping tonight...
I may try it sometime in the future.
All those "other" formats are fun to play with, but really impractical to encode with, IMO. mp3 is the common,
commercially supported format. I know of no digital music players that have built-in decoding for them, no popular audio CD
burning apps offer built-in conversion support for them...so to me it seems senseless for people to encode with
them for anything but personal PC use.

[dingoBaby]

I use APE to archive my personal collection on my PC. I understand your point about supported formats for buring and portable players. Although Media Center's burner supports APE conversion (I belive one of the MC developers also developed Monkey's Audio but I am not sure).

[Wolfmight]

i use Cdex