Re: MP3 question

jrsnfld wrote:
On Mar 27, 1:16 pm, O <ow...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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jrsnfld <jrsn...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mar 27, 10:11 am, Jerry Bank <bankce...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have about 2000 cds, which are housed in 10 JVC 200 disc changers. I
fear that the changers are showing their age and beginning to act
erratically. I am thinking of doing the following. I would rip all the cds and store
them on an external hard drive. An inexpensive laptop would be in my
bedroom, where the cds are listened to, and the hard drive would be
attached to the laptop. I imagine that with proper cabling I could
attach the laptop to my receiver and listen that way.
Does that sound feasible, or am I missing something?
Quite feasible.
With 2000 cds, you're looking at a project that'll take you the better
part of a year if you rip 10 cds a day (which is a tedious chore).
Better to do it now than to wait until you have even more cds.
If you do rip to mp3, do it at the highest bitrate possible.
There are several ways to rip at the highest bitrate possible, which
would be any lossless format. It is best to have some (lossless)
compression, just to halve the size of the collection. Either FLAC or
Apple Lossless would be fine.

-Owen

I consider the highest mp3 rate (320kb/s) to be perfectly adequate for
listening on a decent stereo system, and of course that yields smaller
files than FLACs. For the size collection we're talking about,
however, the hard disc space saved by using mp3s is trivial, so it
seems sensible to just go ahead and use lossless compression. If the
original poster had 20 or 30,000 discs, one might give pause...on the
other hand, nobody with a private collection that big is insane enough
to try to rip everything!

--Jeff

For the sake of a few extra dollars, owing the relative inexpensiveness of HD storage, I'd archive (if I was mad enough to try) using .flac files and be done with it. And reassured into the bargain.

Ray (Dawg) Hall, Taree
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