jmpage2 Wrote: > Just a comment on this whole "hard disks are cheap so rip to FLAC" > thing. > > Yes, hard drives are cheap, you can probably get a couple of 200GB > drives and rip all of your stuff to FLAC.
You missed the point. Rip to FLAC so that you'll never need to rip again. Say you had your collection in FLAC, but some day you decide that your entire collection should be in another lossless format, or you'd like to create some low-rate mp3s. You run a conversion script and you're done. If you had only lossy files then you'd need to rip everything again or you end up with horrid quality sound. > Then if you want to back it all up effectively you will need to buy > another couple of hard drives or set up a RAID, etc... all of a sudden > not as cheap. Especially if you need a transcoded copy of your music > for devices that don't support FLAC. > > I had a buddy with a bunch of music that was not backed up. His > motherboard went out and corrupted the hard drive. Now he gets to rip > 400 CDs again. > > Fun. Or you back up to DVD-R like many of us. I get an average of about 16 CDs per 4.7 GB disc. You only need to back up any file in your collection once, unless you re-rip it or change something like a tag. I label the disks and keep a spreadsheet listing the albums on each disk. You can get a fairly large music collection onto a 100 disk spindle. -- JJZolx _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
