The only reason to rip to a lossy format is to save HDD space=$. At the rate HDD prices drop, it is a false economy to try to save that space=$. In another year or so, the only reason to rip to .flac will be to get the tags, otherwise no one will bother with any compression at all. When terabyte drives fall below $200 (next year, maybe?) you'll be kicking yourself for ripping to a lossy compressed format because you'll have to do the ripping all over again.
Think about it- you saved $100 last month by cramming your stuff into a smaller drive in mp3 format, but it took you just as long to rip the discs to .mp3 as it would have to .flac them, maybe longer. If you had flac'd them, you wouldn't have to rerip in a year, but since you were tight, you're going to have to spend two more weeks reripping your discs and making all the mind-numbing corrections to errors in freeDB data. You'll wish you had spent the extra $100 and done it right the first time. Don't forget to get an extra HDD to make a back-up copy of the library. You don't want to have to rip AGAIN when the HDD crashes! TD -- tyler_durden ------------------------------------------------------------------------ tyler_durden's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2701 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26918 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
