Point well and truly taken, Tarabyte drives are only about $500.00 here, I got one of those thrown in with the purchase of my new Imac.
On 03/09/2007, at 3:54 AM, Kevin Lloyd wrote: Yep, with today's cheap hard drive prices, why settle for anything less than the quality of a purchased music CD? Of course, you can then create other formats from your perfect lossless masters such as lower bitrate mp3's to play on portables where disc space is at a premium. Regards. Kevin E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "DJ DOCTOR P" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2007 2:44 PM Subject: Re: Output format tips needed: > High Kevin, this is Mr. John Price. > This is exactly what I do. > I have Wenamp V5.35, but when I want to rip CDs, I fall back on > Windows > Media Player to do it. > And I rip all of my Cds in the WMA lossless format. > And so when I make compilation CDs, they turn out sounding like store > bought > Cds. > Maybe the others will ketch on. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kevin Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> > Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2007 9:30 AM > Subject: Re: Output format tips needed: > > >> Hi. >> >> If you're looking to retain exact audio copies of your CD's before >> selling >> them then you'll need to use a lossless format. I'd recommend >> lossless >> WMA >> and using windows media player to rip your CD's rather than nero. >> >> As you're probably aware, next to MP3, WMA is the most commonly >> supported >> format. It's also a proprietary microsoft format and I don't see >> microsoft >> going away any day soon so the longevity of the format should be >> guaranteed >> over any other. >> >> Lossless formats take up around 50 to 75% of the original CDDA >> equivalent >> so >> you'll need a lot of disc space to hold 650 CD's. I've currently got >> around >> 700 CD's ripped in lossless format and they're taking up just over >> 270GB >> of >> disc space. You'll also need to back up your hard drive because >> if you >> have >> a hard drive failure, you're going to want to get your music back >> from >> your >> saves. I currently use 3 hard drives, a master and 2 back up drives. >> >> WAV files will take up more space than lossless WMA or FLAC files and >> they >> don't support ID3 tags so I would disuade you of using this >> format. They >> don't sound any better than lossless formats either so I don't see >> why >> anyone would waste disc space on this format. >> >> If you use windows media player to rip your collection you'll be >> able to >> set >> it up to automatically start ripping when you insert a CD and >> eject it on >> completion. I don't think you can do this with nero but I could be >> wrong. >> >> Regards. >> >> Kevin >> E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "albert griffith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> >> Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2007 3:43 PM >> Subject: Output format tips needed: >> >> >>> I have 650 audio disks I plan to rip to my external drive. Since >>> I'm >>> going >>> to sell the disks want the sound to be of really good quality but I >>> can't >>> afford to make duplicates in CDA format. I'd also like to be in a >>> position >>> to change the format if a new one comes along that's enough >>> better to >>> justify it. I plan to use, Nero 7 Ultra Edition and rip to flak >>> but I'm >>> open to all suggestions. also, I've used Roxio products for >>> years but I >>> switched because the latest version of their program was less >>> accessible >>> than Nero. therefore, if anyone has a tutorial or general >>> configuration >>> tips, I'd love to hear them. 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