On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 20:57 +0000, Robert Bronsdon wrote: > On Mon, 03 Jan 2011 20:22:09 -0000, Peter Merchant > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I notice when I look at the directory on a CD for Full recording that it > > has the full recording in four formats: > > I'm gonna throw caution to the wind and presume this is a "regular" audio > CD and you have some piece of software which is showing you these > different file types as possible transcoding options. I can't imagine any > reason for someone to bundle that lot onto a CD.
-- Yes, Regular music CD's that someone paid for once. Im was looking at the contents with Dolphin, the file manager. > > Anyway > > > If I want to save them to my hard disk, which format is recommended? > > The .ogg is the smallest in terms of size, but is there a downside? > > cda is the uncompressed lossless file, these are probably pretty big so we > can ignore these. > wma is an interesting microsoft format and although we could work it out > from the file size we have no idea of the quality, so I'll ignore these as > well. > > leaving us with ogg and flac. Both "free" codecs, good start. Flac is Free > Lossless Audio Codec, the file will contain the same end information as > cda but will compress it. Think like .zip or gzip etc. This should make > the files a little smaller than cda but with the same output. > > Ogg is a free codec very similar to mp3. It does lose some of the sound > quality but this saves huge amounts of disk space. > > The file format you should choose is dependant on why you are copying to > your computer. If its just to listen to the music later then I'd say use > ogg. -- Thanks. That is what I'll do. The computer speakers are not terrific quality. > If you have lots of disk space and a prized stereo connected to the > computer either copy using flac or just play the CD ;) > -- Prized Stereo died a couple of months ago after 35 years of service. My son has taken the nova 88's as they were the last remaining parts of the system. I have a cheapy Sanyo DAB with CD player to replace it, and so can play the original CD's > If you're looking to archive you CD collection then use FLAC. It can be > transcoded back to the original cda anyway. -- Thanks for that. It may be useful in the future. -- Next meeting: Crown Hotel, Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2011-01-11 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
