Digital Audio
I get many questions on my tools for handling digital audio. The information on this page should provide some answers.
My goal is to eliminate all media handling for my audio reproduction. To that effect I had been ripping all of my CD's with Exact Audio Copy (EAC) into a lossless compressed audio format called FLAC. FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec. My original plan was to use Sonos players to stream my music library to my home theater. I have now decided to use an Apple TV to stream my music library. This decision has caused for me to convert all my FLAC files to Apple Lossless Compression (ALAC) (m4a) format. I am now using Apple's iTunes SW on my MacBook to rip/encode my CDs and for library management . I use Max from sbooth.org on my Mac to convert FLAC files to .m4a files.
For those of you still on a Windoze environment, Hydrogen Audio has many good tutorials on how to set up EAC for use with FLAC and how to get the best audio extraction results.