Pat Farrell;246062 Wrote: > 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/
IMO, your reply just reinforces my belief. No one else in my family would have the patience to even think about what you wrote, and few would have the technical capability to execute it...it's probably more accurate to say patience to figure out how to. My experience is that the "experts" on this forum don't represent the vast majority of the folks I consult with that would like to have this capability. As a result, I've come to realize that these types should pick the format that best suits them now - and that might not be FLAC. I offered the additional information simply because no one else did. Whether you agree or not is personal to you, but obviously may not represent the decision criteria most important to the original poster. Since we don't know what they are, I figured I'd add more thoughts to balance the argument a little. If he wants to listen to his music with the windows media player on his 2 windows computers, his portable windows compatible player and the squeezebox, then WMA may be less hassle and therefore better suited for him. -- thomsens ------------------------------------------------------------------------ thomsens's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1352 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40632 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
