I personally think that if you rip just to a lossy format you will come to regret it.
HDs are now so cheap, and getting cheaper all the time, that storage is not really an issue. To rip 800 CDs at 5mins/CD (and IME that's quite quick) will take you more than 65hrs, and at least if you do it losslessly you'll then be able to batch convert to anything else you want whilst you catch up on your sleep! Whilst you're at it you may as well use EAC in accurate mode and set the read offset for your drive correctly - then you can be reasonable confident that your ripped files are bit for bit identical to what's actually on the CD. Even when you've ripped them all, you'll still have to spend some more time fixing tags and stuff - and that's not something you want to do twice either. But then, audio quality is pretty important to me and YMMV. -- Patrick Dixon _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
