Jordan Gunderson wrote: > Esteemed Plug members, > > After much procrastination and many damaged CDs, I'm ready to start > archiving data from my music CDs. > > I know I should save to FLAC files first, but that's about all I know, > so I'm looking for any tips & resources about the best way to create > and consume a personal music archive. What can you suggest? I guess I could just share how I do my music library. I started it before iTunes was around and before many of the "music library" apps that are out now. I usually just rip my CD's using audiograbber (http://www.audiograbber.com-us.net/). Yes, I know, I am mentioning a windows app on a linux mailing list. I am shamed. Then I have a directory structure that I store all of my music in. It is something to the effect of <Artist>/<Album>/<Track Number>-<Track Name>.mp3. After that, when I want to listen to a particular song or album, I just browse to the director and play what I want. I have tried some apps that have a "library" such as songbird and banshee. But I usually just go back to finding my mp3s by hand.
By ripping directly to mp3 you will loose some audio quality. But if you use something like 320Kbps for the encoding rate, it should be too bad. I'm sure there is some audio purist out there who will say that all mp3s sound like crap compared to other formats. But mp3s work just about anywhere these days. If you want to go with something free of license issues you can use something like ogg. Anyways. There is my $.02. Mike /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
