thomsens;246070 Wrote: > 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.
The boneheaded, no thought at all method would be even more disk-space efficient, wouldn't it? If you just convert everything file from the old format to the new one (without trying to do a save of all the old files until they're all converted or do some percentage of the library at a time), you'd only use as much disk space as the single largest song file to do the whole conversion. > 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. Yeah, but make sure it's WMA *lossless* if you have the disk space. I don't quite buy the "Today, 500GB disks are under $100 at your local big box. What was important then is not very much of a concern now." argument--I don't just go throwing more drives into an already working setup willy-nilly, especially when it's been heavily balanced for quietness and so forth. And I'm not going to replace a perfectly functional machine just because it's a few years old. But if you _have_ a new machine with big drives, going lossless out of the gate is absolutely the way to go. -- SumnerH ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SumnerH's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13035 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40632 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
