JJZolx;332898 Wrote: > 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.
I would agree with EAC but not dbpoweramp. It's much simpler and the tagging is great. It might slow down the encoding but it's nice to do it all at one time and not have to do it later all over again. But to each his or her own. -- Nonreality -IF THE RULE YOU FOLLOWED BROUGHT YOU TO THIS, OF WHAT USE IS THE RULE.- HTTP://www.last.fm/user/nonreality ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nonreality's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51253 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
