Its all personal belief. I have no problem with other folks choosing other answers.
But arguments about conversion taking "too much" disk space are no better than red herrings. Four or five years ago, Apple had negligible market share and lower mind share. The iPod, iMac and other good products have changed that, but before then, if you chose a closed Apple protocol, you would seriously have to ask if Apple was going to stay viable. To me, the cost of a music library is not the disk storage costs, its my time to rip it. Physically handling the CDs, moving them, loading them in the PC, etc. That is time that I could be doing other stuff, be it working to pay for more CDs, talking to my family, listening to music, or sleeping. One can convert from one lossless format to another for free, without touching the jewel boxes and CDs. At least as long as something can read the format. I'm not sure if anyone can read word processing documents of the early PC days, WordStar was king than. -- pfarrell Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pfarrell's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=200 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40632 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
