I would advise against ripping twice if you can avoid it. There are two possible ways of using dBpoweramp to make both the FLAC and the lossy (MP3 or AAC) copies with only having to read the CD once.
Option 1 is for new rips only, and involves setting up dBpoweramp to encode both FLAC and AAC (or FLAC and MP3) immediately after ripping the CD. The advantage is that it's one step. The disadvantages are that each CD takes longer, and if you do any post-rip tweaking of the tags, you have to do them twice. Option 2 is for files you already have converted to FLAC. Use dBpoweramp Batch Converter to read the FLAC files (not the CD) and produce the AAC or MP3 files. The advantage is that any post-rip tweaks you made to the FLAC files are also written in the AAC/MP3, and as the name implies, you can set the thing going on a huge library and come back to it later, without coming back every few minutes to change the CD. The disadvantage is that it's an extra step. This is the method I use all the time now for making MP3 copies of my FLACs, including new rips. If you can spare your new laptop for the job you'll get it done faster. Ripping and encoding can get processor intensive, so a faster machine will get the job done more quickly, especially the encoding/transcoding part. But whatever you do, don't put the CD in the drive more than once, because your FLAC copies are almost certainly more convenient. -- aubuti ------------------------------------------------------------------------ aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80288 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
