thomsens wrote: > Also, we all talk about "you can always convert." That's true, but it > takes a long time to do and a lot of disk space. So, while it is > obviously possible, it's still better to pick the most useful format > for you up front.
I don't see your argument at all. The naive way is to have a spare disk twice as large as your FLAC/WMA/AAC library, uncompress to the spare, and then recompress in your favorite new format. Disk space is cheap. But if you want, you can do it in sections, say 10% of your library at a time, and that would only require a spare 20%. The time to do the conversion is immaterial. You set it up, and do it over night, over the weekend, whatever. I believe strongly that worrying over the "best" long term format is false optimization. What is best today is unlikely to be best in the future. How far in the future, I don't know. But it is sure to change. When I got my first SqueezeBox, 40GB disks were state of the art. I used them for my library. Today, 500GB disks are under $100 at your local big box. What was important then is not very much of a concern now. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
