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. > > 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.If you are happy with MP3 quality at the moment, rip and backup FLACs to a 'normally-offline' disk and just keep the MP3s versions on-line. That way you miminise the cost, and always have a FLAC backup.
DVDs are an option but you'll only get 12-15 CDs per DVD, so for a large collection that's a fair number of DVDs to restore if you have a crash. Quicker than re-ripping though! -- Patrick Dixon _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
