The ripping is a time consuming process regardless of the format you rip to. The big advantage of rippping to FLAC (or any other lossless format) is that you are sure that you will have to go through the ripping process only once. When you have ripped to FLAC, and you don't have enough harddisk space, you can back it up on DVDs . You will have then about 15 music CD's lossless on one DVD, with a price of 40 eurocents per DVD this can't hardly be an issue. Having done this, you can transcode your FLAC files to any lossy format and quality you need (low quality for your portable MP3 player, high quality for your squeezebox). And maybe someday you will have a larger HD and a better audio system, and you will be glad that you have the original FLAC files for best quality. The transcoding takes time as well but can done in batch mode and does not involve handling of CDs (insert CD , wait, eject, insert new CD, wait, etc).
EAC is maybe not the fastest tool to use for ripping, but considered by many to result in best quality. Dbpoweramp is a much mentioned faster alternative, there are many discussions about this in this forum. -- stroom ========================================== Squeezebox 3 // Synology DS101j Last.FM // AlienBBC ------------------------------------------------------------------------ stroom's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9612 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34862 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
