mrfantasy wrote: > 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).
Why is that a caveat? If you want both flac and mp3 then you *have* to encode to both flac *and* mp3 at some stage. And if you've got a large library then it will take a lot longer to encode than if you have a small library. This is a one-time operation. Once you've done the initial pass all future runs will be much much quicker, only transcoding new files and updating any tags you might have changed in the flac files. Personally, I'd rather get all my flac rips perfect in the knowledge that I can just leave my computer chugging away unattended to convert everything to mp3 format, including tags. R. _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
