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"But do they sound any different?" As a fellow ripper of physical CDs in 2018, the point is that a correct rip of CDDA from the CD is the one and only way to b

• wink 8y ago
  As another fellow ripper of physical CDs - is there a good way to check for quality of my rips besides looking at the bitrate and listening to all of them (talking mp3s here, of course)? I'm not interested in perfect lossless quality, but I'm quite sure I should re-rip the CDs I did 10-15 years ago, but for VBR mp3s it's kinda hard to decide what is 'good enough', as compared to say 128kb/s rips - so I'm looking for a scriptable way to give me a rough "keep/maybe/definitely throw away" metric... Rephrasing the question: What are people typically using these days when not going for FLAC? Some of my mp3s are definitely from the "HDD space is expensive" age 15+ years ago...
  • ahje 8y ago
    MP3, with LAME (-q0). A couple of the really old rips used average bit rate instead. Will probably re-rip those at some point, but the rest sounds fine to my ears.
  • namibj 8y ago
    Usually the formats are FLAC, 320, V0, V3.
    • moftz 8y ago
      I've never seen anyone use V3 for VBR rips, usually V2.
• kalleboo 8y ago
  > you'll be fooling around with that song again sometime I've been ripping in AAC 256kbps for 15 years now and have yet to see any reason to revisit any of those CDs. Even if a more efficient encoding mechanism gains mainstream support, I'll just use that for new rips only since storage is cheap enough.
  • thirdsun 8y ago
    > since storage is cheap enough. That's exactly the point. Using anything but a lossless codec for ripping music is an unwise decision.
    • kalleboo 8y ago
      It's not that cheap though. My laptops 1 TB SSD can comfortably store 60 GB of AAC files and I forget they even exist, but if those were uncompressed, the 300 GB they take up would be a major problem.
      • thirdsun 8y ago
        I'm aware - my collection is nearing 1 TB of lossless music at this point. However I store it on a local NAS as well as a an external SSD (in case I need it in a portable way, which rarely happens) - I opted for an expensive SSD because it's very light, small and portable, but a traditional external drive would handle music just fine if price is a major concern. At the end everyone has different requirements, but since I consider ripping a huge amount of music a major task I wouldn't want to repeat, I'd make sure I do it right from the beginning - and opting for a lossy format doesn't fit into that idea.
        • fb03 8y ago
          also being lossless you are futureproofed on new formats you might need to convert to. I mantain both: a tree of lossless files and an exact copy already encoded as 320kbit mp3 that is automatically mantained (just because i can quickly cram those into a usb thumbdrive and they'll play anywhere -- i can't say the same about flac support). o/