pablolie wrote: 
> Integrity is relative. There are always corner cases where checksums
> will not be able to ensure it entirely (sorry to worry you). best
> practice, as always - early backups, ongoing integrity checks.

I agree - but the checksums are still a pretty good indicator. If all
the files in your collection have OK checksums, they most likely are OK.
If some have checksum errors, then something nasty has happened to your
collection, and all of them need to be verifies.

> ripping is such a brutal process... never ever want to do it again.

Ripping itself is easy - just automate it, and keep swapping CDs in the
drive whenever you go past anyway. The hard work is in making sure the
tags are OK.



"To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this
fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid gilt
edge that will fool many people" - Paul W Klipsch, 1953
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