On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 12:32 -0700, jmpage2 wrote: > 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.
Not at all clear to me that ripping to Flac or ACC or WMA or anything else would have any impact on this argument. Backups are needed, or you have to accept that the 700+ CDs on the shelf are the backup. If you want faster backup than that, you have to use some other media, DVDs, disks, zillions of floppies, etc. My point was that disks are so inexpensive that the disk saving between FLAC and a lossy compression format is not worth the effort. The pain of loading hundreds of CDs is a major part of the psychic cost of losing your music. My music is spread over three disks, it is unlikely that all three will go out at once. I chose to have only one copy of the music in FLAC on disks, and consider the shelves of CDs to be my backup. YMMV, etc. -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
