You can buy a good size harddrive for not much money these days, it's well worth the investment even if you can's afford a second back up drive(at least you still have the orginal CD's).
FLAC is the most future proof format because even if people stoped supporting it you can transcode to another lossless format and still retain the orginal CD's sound quality. It's a good base for transcoding to lossy formats too for portable players etc with minimal loss of quality. Also remember that like OGG, FLAC properly supports gapless too. Talking about future proofing, lets not forget why we compress music in the first place. It's because of storage space limitations and transfer (download/upload) speeds. As massive hard drives become the norm and WiFi and internet speeds increase we will be needing to compress our audio files less and less. I think lossless will become the norm in a few years and some people will regreat having their music massively compressed. -- dangerous_dom ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dangerous_dom's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1763 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21739 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
