jfalk;271558 Wrote: > Not to say that this guys experience is common, he seems to have > rejected the Slim solution only because commercial services to convert > CDs are too expensive. This "problem" will eventually work itself out. In the future, CD will not be the delivery vehicle. IMHO the iTunes music store is one reason the iPod is popular, you can buy the music ready to go, no ripping required. I just hope that FLAC (or some lossless) becomes popular before CDs go extinct. There are several problems which must be worked out before music-on-the-hard-drive, be it Slimserver, Itunes/iPod or another solution is ready for prime time. Besides ditribution, there's tagging. The wide variations in online tag databases with popular music, not to mention that the tagging schemes are do not really handle classical all that well, and with FLAC only the most basic tags have been de-facto standardized, these are other problems which need to be dealt with. And there's the problem of what to do with "gapless" playback. And, while this is mainly a problem for audiophiles, how to handle various resolutions of source material on various playback devices.
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