I started this process for all the major labels in 1999. For the five years I was involved it was just "here's the CD, do your best, we don't have easy access t

I started this process for all the major labels in 1999. For the five years I was involved it was just "here's the CD, do your best, we don't have easy access to anything better than this. good luck." We ripped to WAV so we could re-encode as each new tech came out.