Honestly ALAC isn't half bad. I believe the compression ratio is
around 40-50%. Given how plentiful storage is these days, it was a
small price to pay for everlasting quality.

On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Conor Williams <conor.williams@gmail.com> wrote:
> jees, i traded a bit of quality for space
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> On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 9:04 PM, Steven Stallion <sstallion@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I gave up some time back and ripped the family's cd collection (around
>> 500 discs) to ALAC. After that I converted most to AAC for listening
>> on audio players and left the original rips sitting in storage.
>> Needless to say, Goodwill was a little surprised to find 500 discs
>> donated at once!
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net> wrote:
>> >> just downloading a torrent with the mp3's seems simpler
>> >> than swapping cd's. :)
>> >
>> > Just beware, in my experience of this (for research purposes,
>> > yes really!) many, if not most CD images in WAV or PCM format
>> > are in fact decodes of MP3s, and many of these where low bitrate
>> > MP3s which are nasty.
>> >
>> > personally I have moved away from compressed audio, not because
>> > I distrust compression, but I like browsing through a pile of CDs
>> > looking for somthing that matches my mood - for me the user interface
>> > is better; perhaps its my age.
>> >
>> > -Steve
>> >
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