Despite this, my entire CD collection (500+? 700+? I don't even know anymore) is encoded in FLAC. It has required multiple hard drives, and I'm using RAID 1, so I'm using double the drives I strictly speaking need.
Why?
First, the noise of the system is a nonissue -- it's not in a listening room.
Second, and this is the part I haven't seen you really address in your replies, FLAC ensures that I will never need to re-rip my CDs (unless catastrophe strikes and I lose the RAID system -- but I'm planning on adding periodic backups to my safety net as well). If you encode with mp3, and later you need/want to use another lossy format, you'll either have to re-rip or suffer a generational loss of quality. You (like I) may not be able to distinguish between high bitrate mp3 and FLAC, but after a generation or two of quality loss, you may begin to notice the difference.
My next project may involve keeping a parallel library in mp3 format, generated automatically from my FLAC library. I can use the mp3s for players which don't speak FLAC.
Disk space is cheap. The time it took me to rip all those CDs and verify the tags is not. I don't really care how anyone else chooses to do this, but I do feel like anyone with a decent sized music collection must have a streak of masochism is they'd willingly leave themselves open to having to re-rip all of their CDs. :)
On 2/22/06, pablolie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> All in good fun though. We're both here because music is
> important to us, but getting 'the best sound from your
> squeezebox' is not the most important thing in the world.
Agree with you on all counts.
As I have stated before: I am very likely to re-digitize those
recording that are important to me as FLACs in due time. First of all I
have to see how much storage space I have left after I have achieved my
primary objective, which is archiving my entire collection for
convenience while mantaining acceptable sound. The current sound level
and musicality of the set-up by far exceeds my original expectations,
so I am ecstatic about it. My goal wasn't and isn't to maintain
identical playback quality - I have been consistently clear about
that.
I can't recall telling ayone else what they should do when it comes to
setting up their system or digitizing their collection, because I am
not sure what their goals are.
Perhaps I could have gone out to see if I could utterly replace my CD
player. I am not even remotely close to that. My idiosynchrasies and
preferences are just mine, not asking anyone else to adopt them. On the
other hand, I think it's foolish for others to try to judge the results
I get without having experienced them first hand. That's called dogma.
And all I can say is I am not afflicted by it.
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pablolie
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