Eric Sandeen wrote:
After facing the thought of going through my cd collection for a 3rd time for re-encoding, it occurred to me that I should just flac the whole CD and add a cue sheet, and then back up to DVDs. That way -next- time I need to re-encode to any format, I can handle ~1/20th the discs, compared to my whole cd collection. :)
For what it's worth, I think I've decided to forgo the single-flac-file scheme. Ripping individual tracks with cdparanoia does not leave out any sectors, so I can always un-flac back to one wav per track, and splice them together. I'm using cdrdao to save a toc file for later cd creation if that becomes necessary. Tested this on a live album (Johnny Cash Live at Folsom Prison) and there is no lost audio; tracks segue seamlessly as on the original disc.
The downside of one flac per trac seems to be a little added complexity of stitching them back together*
The upside is that I think it's simpler to store track metadata, especially for later conversion to other formats, since it can operate file-by-file.
Unless anyone has other reasons to avoid the flac-per-track method, I'm about to go burn my dvds. :)
Thanks for all the input guys,
-Eric
*I'm not sure why flac -d 1.flac 2.flac 3.flac outputs sequential wavs rather than one big wav; is this intentional and/or needed? I suppose the "one big wav" approach would require flac to look at all input files to write the proper wav header at the front, but that should be do-able...?
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