Burning Lossless Files to CD-A; Why the f@$k do SHNs take so damn long?

[Five]

I like using the Monkey's Audio frontend to decompress SHN... foobar2000 also works great.

Originally Posted by rabble

What would you folks suggest for a good SHN > WAV conversion app?

I use Multi-frontend and the shorten.exe binary. See my sig for links.

[jcrab66]

Originally Posted by rabble

What would you folks suggest for a good SHN > WAV conversion app?

I recommend Traders Little Helper...

[pmonk]

Originally Posted by uhclem

I use Multi-frontend and the shorten.exe binary. See my sig for links.

When using shorten to compress/decompress - do you just use the -x option ??

[ssamadhi97]

To burn audio cds from shn files, I highlight a bunch of shns in my foobar playlist, right-click, hit "Write Audio CD...", and *poof* done.

[iamhydrogen]

Originally Posted by ssamadhi97

To burn audio cds from shn files, I highlight a bunch of shns in my foobar playlist, right-click, hit "Write Audio CD...", and *poof* done.

as a foobar noob, you just made my freakin day, thank you.

Originally Posted by pmonk66

When using shorten to compress/decompress - do you just use the -x option ??

Use the -x option to decompress.

Use no options to compress (not that you would want to do this).

[pmonk]

Originally Posted by uhclem

Use the -x option to decompress.

Use no options to compress (not that you would want to do this).

Ha Man when I first got into all of this flac was the new kid on the block - boy has things changed!

Originally Posted by ssamadhi97

To burn audio cds from shn files, I highlight a bunch of shns in my foobar playlist, right-click, hit "Write Audio CD...", and *poof* done.

Two quick questions:

Does this do SHN > WAV > CD-A, or just SHN > CD-A?

Does foobar allow DAO/gapless burning?

[CitizenGatsby]

Originally Posted by iamhydrogen

as a foobar noob, you just made my freakin day, thank you.

Me too. Woo-hoo!

[iamhydrogen]

Originally Posted by rabble

Two quick questions:

Does this do SHN > WAV > CD-A, or just SHN > CD-A?

Does foobar allow DAO/gapless burning?

Q: Does this do SHN > WAV > CD-A, or just SHN > CD-A?
A: I assume that it does SHN > WAV > CD-A because it "prepares" the files first, which i think means decompressing them.

Q: Does foobar allow DAO/gapless burning?
A: It didn't give me the option so i checked out the disc after and it was DAO

and thirdly, EVERYBODY GET FOOBAR NOW!

So, foobar seems to be quite the swiss army knife of apps - Do ya'll use it as your primary audio player as well?

Anywhere I can get a good tutorial on it? I remember trying to use it once, but I just found the UI so clunky that it didn't last long...

[TheMamba]

Look in the Technobabble Archive and the FAQ - there's plenty of articles on Foobar's features in those areas.

Originally Posted by TheMamba

Look in the Technobabble Archive and the FAQ - there's plenty of articles on Foobar's features in those areas.

Already found the tutorials, but I'm asking what people's experiences are using it as an everyday player are - Anyone out there with an opinion one way or the other?

[pmonk]

I started off using winamp but got turned onto to foobar and foobar is all I use now. I never had any problems with foob playing, tagging or converting files.