Thank you all for your input!
I'll let you know what I decide.
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tf8252
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ok, fine, I'll say it: FLAC.
With 250GB, unless you have more than 500 or so CDs, why use anything
else? Beyond any sonic advantage, it's a great archival/backup
strategy should anything happen to the original CDs.
If you insist on MP3, I like Lame at VBR extreme preset. To me
Another FLAC vote.
And a reason beyond the quality reasons.
If one day you need the file in any other format you do NOT have to
re-rip the CD. You just transcode it.
With a lossy format like MP3 you will suffer generation loss and this
can become very noticeable.
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m1abrams
If you're sure you want to use mp3 format, you can get very good quality
using LAME as the mp3 encoder. I would probably just go all-out and use
the full 320kbs as the bitrate. If you want to save a little space, you
could use the highest-quality VBR setting (-V 0 --vbr-new) which
averages
