I have no idea about iTunes etc. but I do have a recomondation - if at all possible, rip to flac - even if it means burning to DVD for space reasons (it probably will)
You can fit quite a few albums in flac on a DVD-R, if you go with the newer dual layer stuff you can fit even more albums in flac on a DVD. The reason - flac is supported on just about every operating system (I can't think of one where it isn't) and is an open standard, meaning it isn't going to go away if some company decides to ditch it. Additionally, it supports excellent tagging capabilities. You want to go to something lossless because in 3 years or so, your client may want them in a different lossy format - having ripped to flac allows you to do that. And since flac supports excellent tagging, you won't have to do any of that again once the flacs are properly tagged. Only concern is how long the burned DVD backups would last. EAC on Windows can use flac, and it's probably not too difficult to script with cdparanoia on Linux (someone probably already has scripted it for you, complete with cddb lookup etc. - just make sure it uses cdparanoia in paranoia mode, might be an option - to ensure highest quality rip cdparanoia is capable of) I would seriously recommend you look through some of the forums at hydrogenaudio - as the people there have a LOT of experience dealing with absolutely massive collections. -- http://mpeters.us/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
