On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 12:52:23 -0700, jtfields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>That said, I do want to rip my collection to FLAC anyway. Mainly so >that I can future proof my collection, have a nice backup and be able >to quickly transcode to other lossy formats. I just can't seem to >bring myself to dedicate the time to re-rip. It seemed to take me >forever the first time. I just re-ripped my collection a couple weeks ago. Granted mine is only ~350 CDs or so. Last time I ripped them to MP3 it took two months, but this time I ripped them to FLAC in less than one week using two PC's with three CD drives I built from spare parts just for the purpose. If I had known it wouldn't take so long I wouldn't have put it off for so long. In the end I think there were two factors that made this go 'round so much easier and they may apply to you as well... 1 - The first time I ripped everything with CDEX I had it save a local copy of all the cddb information. This time almost every CD I popped in immediately came up with the previously cleansed local cddb info that I had already fixed all the spelling and capitalization errors in. That saved me a TON of time. It's not perfect, however, since I have done some tag cleanup over the years since ripping, but mostly that's just genre's and a few artist names so it won't be difficult to fix again. I can use my old MP3 files to compare to the new flac files where necessary. 2 - Compressing to flac is so much faster than compressing to MP3. I vaguely remember last time it would take 5-10 minutes or longer to convert the files to MP3 after the rip was done. This time I had EAC initiate the flac compression on each track as it was ripping the next. Most of the time the flac conversion was be done long before the next track was ripped. The final track conversion would be done even before I could put the CD back in the jewel case. Keep in mind that one of the machines I used this time is actually the same I used last time so improved CPU speeds didn't even factor in (and the second machine I used is even slower). _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
