Jim Wrote: > No problem, in later posts I might have come over as slightly > patronising but that was because I was getting annoyed that nobody > understood my "it's either lossless or it isn't" point of view. I > never faulted the idea of the original poster, just how he was > considering implementing it blindly on his (for now) lossless > collection. > > If you decide in your re-ripping to go the lossless route be careful, > over time you might become as fanatical about every single hz of audio > as me :P
I almost hate jumping into this thread, but I guess it depends on your reason for using FLAC (or any lossless codec). If it's to archive your album collection, then you're right, It's either lossless or it isn't (Why do I have a sneaking suspicion you're a cuesheet guy? ;) ). However, if it's just to have the best sounding individual tracks you can, then having the whole album doesn't matter. I rip to FLAC because I can hear a difference between it and MP3. I'm not trying to make backup copies of my albums, though. Heck, I delete tracks from the ripped albums that I know I don't like... For the tracks I do like, though, I want them to be lossless. I can't remember the last time I played through an album anyway. I always play through on shuffle by song. So, I've manually deleted 'dupes' (whether exact or not, the same studio recording of a song) when I have them on both a compilation album and the original album. Since my Slimserver is also my main desktop machine, I would like to save drive space if possible. Maybe the original poster and I are in the minority there, I guess. Ben -- Ben _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
