earwaxer9;566111 Wrote: > I have found that I have rippped and re-ripped my cd's several times > over the last few years I have been using my Transporter as my server. > The primary reason may be that I'm nuts, but I have experienced > different results ripping to various bit rates etc. My advice is keep > the CD's. Also, its easier to rip the CD than convert the ripped file > if you want to rip to a different format etc.
I'm not sure if you're nuts, but you are crazy (insert smiley face here). By different bit rates I assume you are talking about ripping to lossy (e.g., mp3). There is no "different bit rate" issue with LOSSLESS. You can choose different compression levels but these are still lossless. (And if you think a FLAC file ripped at -2 sounds different from one ripped at -8, I'll have to respectively agree that you are nuts.) Don't you realize that you can rip your CDs to LOSSLESS (e.g., FLAC). Then this LOSSLESS file (with all metadata, album art, etc.) can be converted at any time to ANY other format (lossless or lossy (mp3, etc) with a few clicks of a mouse. How can reripping be easier. I'm trying to picture reripping my 7,000 plus CDs. Oh boy. This said, I do in fact keep all my CDs in jewelsleeves/cabinets as I noted earlier in this thread. -- garym ------------------------------------------------------------------------ garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80369 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
