On 2006-07-11, Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> How good is the inverse function (ripping the CD tracks back to WAV)? > > If your disks scratch, then you may lose information; also take into > consideration the expected life of your media.
I think backup copies are the solution then. >> Is there any loss of information in burning the files to CD? > > I don't believe so. In that case I don't think there's much benefit to keeping the WAVE files on the hard drive. > If you want to keep the wav files around, you'll almost certainly want > to compress them; if you want to keep them accessible for playing, I > suggest flac, but if not you may want to consider rzip instead of gzip > or bzip2. I'd never heard of rzip until you mentioned it, but (using the default compression for all three commands) there isn't a lot of difference in the file size. 25579480 acid-boys-t1.wav 24329347 acid-boys-t1.wav.gz 23326313 acid-boys-t1.wav.rz 23306444 acid-boys-t1.wav.bz2 Thanks for the information. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
