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
>