SuperQ;248135 Wrote: > The best option is to rip to FLAC, and then use a flac2mp3 script to > convert to whatever for whatever lossy-required devices you have. > > This way once you rip to FLAC, you will never have to re-rip again > because all the original CD data is there.
Indeed, you can, with a few caveats: Large libraries (~13000 songs) might take a long time (about 10 days, continuously, for me, although this was on my server running a 1.5GHZ VIA C7 CPU, a "normal" desktop should go quicker, but still a day or two most likely). And VBR takes much longer than CBR to encode (much more math to figure out optimal bitrates for each block--the above example was CBR). I just left my portable player (Archos 605 Wifi) plugged in to the server and let it rip for as long as it needed, but others may not find this as convenient. -- mrfantasy --Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mrfantasy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1127 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40947 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
