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Best (lossless) way to archive music cds?

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slackerinabox

Lifer
So I bought an album the other day... Yes, I'm as shocked as you are ($20 too!) but it's an indie artist so I figured that I shouldn't pirate his stuff... I need to rip it to mp3 for my iPod but wondered if there's another lossless format that's good for archiving purposes... I need to be able to easily burn from the format and convert to other formats when required (mp3, etc.).. Any ideas? Thanks!
 
i usa wma 9 lossless for all my music and if i need to reencode it , its not a big deal.

plus I get all the album art etc when i rip with WMP9
 
MP3 ripped from a CD using EAC and encoded with LAME with the "-alt preset extreme" setting sounds awesome and doesn't take up much space.
 
Originally posted by: conjur
MP3 ripped from a CD using EAC and encoded with LAME with the "-alt preset extreme" setting sounds awesome and doesn't take up much space.
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Definately not lossless though. 🙂

Some people are anal like that. 😉 They like to preserve the original "imprint" of their music, so to speak..

In reality, it is ruined after being compressed with an MP3 codec.. even if you "can't really" hear it.. 😛
 
Originally posted by: Eli
Originally posted by: conjur
MP3 ripped from a CD using EAC and encoded with LAME with the "-alt preset extreme" setting sounds awesome and doesn't take up much space.
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Definately not lossless though. 🙂

Some people are anal like that. 😉 They like to preserve the original "imprint" of their music, so to speak..

In reality, it is ruined after being compressed with an MP3 codec.. even if you "can't really" hear it.. 😛
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Well, I'm far from an audiophile but have a decent system and I can't tell any difference from a CD played in my CD player and the same music as MP3 off of my HTPC. And a car MP3 deck and the same files work there, too! No need for multiple file formats 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Johnnie
The largest .shn download site From the best band ever 🙂
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Granted, gdlive has a good number of shows, but it far less than http://www.archive.org Those are the etree archive servers with hundreds of live shows. Most everything that goes around etree ends up here minus GD, Phish, Widespread, and a few others. Putting those bands on there as well would have called for double or triple the number of servers since all their shows are readily traded.
 
Wow, FLAC encoded from EASY CDDA extractor is freaking fast! Though I do think that an .ISO of the original would not be too much bigger.. Oh well, at least I can easily make MP3s from the files using EASY CDDA converter...
 
I would go with either FLAC or SHN. Both are readily available, easy to use. HD cost is so negligible these days I really can't justify using a lossy format like mp3.
 
Originally posted by: Sid59
lossless = ape of flac. go to hydrogenaudio.com and read more.
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yep, I've archived about 800 of my CDs this way so far, on one 250 GB Maxtor (then backed up to a 250 GB WD).

In fact, I'm listening to my FLAC'd To Venus And Back disc 1 right now through a pair of Polk RT28s -- sweetness 🙂
 
Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
IIRC, there's an MP3/media player being made that supports OGG and FLAC.

- M4H
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The new Rio "ipod wannabe" hard-disk player supports FLAC. It's a license-free, open standard so it should be popping up in more devices from now on.
 
i got some songs in some lossless format. they have and MPC file ending and have something to do with "EAC extraction"...
 
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