There are more to it than soundquality , but I agree it's a lot of time I've done it with my first 1000 CD's :) ouch.
Archival and transcoding its more future proof as lossles I only have physical CD's of 1/3 of my collection. When times moves forward and current lossles formats gets obsolete I can just transcode without any soundquality issue . You can never transcode one lossy format to another lossy format ( or the same lossy format ) without introducing artefacts . And I hope you are aware of that lossy sound compression do discard data forever its not like a zip file ,decoding you mp3 back to flac or WAV would not restore the data it's gone forever ! ( you get a working flac or WAV but that's the mp3 decoders best guess you have ) If you do mp3 do it at 320kbps with the lame encoder then you get the best possible mp3 , many older encoders are not that good :/ If the file where on lower rate and I had the cd I would rerip ASAP to flac . A 128kbps mp3 is not at all transparent on my system I would also decode mp3 on the server ,you can dig out some old treads about the mp3 decoder in the players , you can have audible artefacts in SB3 or Touchs built in mp3 decoder with some music ( this one is real not the audiophile fantasies about flac vs WAV ) . So it would be more server load . A server decoded 320kbps lame encoded mp3 is in most cases transpararent on my system too and actually any system or listener with some rare exceptions. You can always find some recordings that not do well in a lossy decoder , but they are rare ,but in a big enough collection you are bound to have some of them ( but you won't always know which one ). That mp3 is probably ok is not good enough for me . I would be much happier knowing that I archived and backed up my music in the best possible way . So I stick to rip my records to thier original spec CD's or DVDA if you not yet ripped your CD's there is no argument for ripping to something but else but lossles . You can always batch transcode to mp3's or AAC from the lossles originals for your portable players . -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad1 with iPengHD & SqueezePad (in storage SB3, reciever ,controller ) server HP proliant micro server N36L with ClearOS Linux http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=100416 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
