jees, i traded a bit of quality for space
On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 9:04 PM, Steven Stallion <sstall...@gmail.com> wrote: > I gave up some time back and ripped the family's cd collection (around > 500 discs) to ALAC. After that I converted most to AAC for listening > on audio players and left the original rips sitting in storage. > Needless to say, Goodwill was a little surprised to find 500 discs > donated at once! > > On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Steve Simon <st...@quintile.net> wrote: > >> just downloading a torrent with the mp3's seems simpler > >> than swapping cd's. :) > > > > Just beware, in my experience of this (for research purposes, > > yes really!) many, if not most CD images in WAV or PCM format > > are in fact decodes of MP3s, and many of these where low bitrate > > MP3s which are nasty. > > > > personally I have moved away from compressed audio, not because > > I distrust compression, but I like browsing through a pile of CDs > > looking for somthing that matches my mood - for me the user interface > > is better; perhaps its my age. > > > > -Steve > > > >
