peejay;330559 Wrote: > Is there any way with EAC to rip to Flac for my home library *and* Mp3 > for my portable library - in other words a dual configuration for > compression? > I remember reading somewhere that this was possible, but I've lost the > thread
There are a couple of reasons that I'd recommend avoiding this approach to keeping both Flac and Mp3 libraries. It's a lot easier to use a script like flac2mp3.pl to maintain a parallel Mp3 library. 1. Speed of ripping. Encoding to Mp3 is much, much slower than encoding to Flac. So doing both will slow the process down. You can do the Mp3 encoding in parallel while ripping subsequent tracks, but if you do any tagging or manipulation of the files after ripping, you'll be waiting. 2. Difficulty keeping tagging in sync. If you add or change tags within the Flac files after ripping, even if just to correct minor typos, then you'll want to do the same in the Mp3 counterpart. This can be a pain. If you make wholesale, library wide, changes, then it can be a huge pain. 3. Complexity of the ripper setup. It's a lot simpler to just rip and encode using a single audio codec. Using something like an intermediate program such as Mareo with EAC comes with other issues as well, such as dealing with the intermediate program's bugs. -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51253 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
