--- Joel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just got a shipment of CD's from BMG to complete > my Rush collection and > now I'm looking to rip them all to my hard drive. > I'm trying to decide on a > format, what do you all think would be best, MP3, > Ogg, Monkey's Audio, WMA > (no flames please)? > -Joel > >
First off, congratulations on your Rush CD's. They rock. Secondly, most people on the UUG wholeheartedly recommend Ogg. I have done several blind tests, comparing ogg to mp3, wma, real audio, and quick time formats. In every case I found that ogg was the best quality (according to my ears -- no too scientific though). Most, if not all, of your music playing applications in Linux support ogg. Winamp 2.80 and higher supports ogg as well, if you have to you use that other OS. Another option is to rip them using a lossless compression, like FLAC. You can apt-get flac and xmms-flac (go to the UUG web site's link on apt-repository if you haven't already discovered the beauty of apt-get). The advantage of ripping lossless is that it is about half the size of a full .wav file without losing *any* quality. You can then convert the songs to any other format, such as ogg or mp3 later on. Just depends on you hard drive space requirements and your audio quality requirements. Of course, my ears can't tell the difference between a flac and a 160 bitrate targeted ogg. Mileage may vary. BTW, Grip is a pretty good music ripper, as you might already know. Hope that helps. -Jon Dehdari __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
