jees, i traded a bit of quality for space


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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