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I think I've ripped my entire audio collection 3 or 4 times now. Back in the day I was naively convinced M4A would displace MP3. And depending on the disk siz
by nirvdrum 12y ago
I think I've ripped my entire audio collection 3 or 4 times now. Back in the day I was naively convinced M4A would displace MP3. And depending on the disk size of the day, I've ripped with various bit rates (not necessarily VBR). Amazon and Apple seem to give you high quality rips these days, but I like having the flexibility of going back to the source material as needed.
Also, I guess I'm increasingly in the minority, but I really enjoy reading liner notes.
- w1ntermute 12y agoIt would be a lot easier to buy more storage and just buy digital lossless copies of all your music. The extra cost would be more than made up for in the time savings from not having to rerip your audio collection so many times.
- nirvdrum 12y agoSure. I don't recall anyone selling anything over 160 kbps in 2004. Apple introduced their lossless encoding around then, but extra storage for that many discs was prohibitively expensive. I think Amazon is still ~250 kbps and doesn't offer lossless at all. Fortunately, I haven't had to rerip in a while. And if I really wanted to throw in the towel, services like Murfie exist that will take your collection and rip for you in a variety of formats. But, having physical CDs really doesn't bother me either.