From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <9fbffeffeff29482f4f62d6f1054194a@felloff.net> Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2013 22:13:05 +0000 Message-ID: From: Conor Williams To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001a11c353e6dc779704ed214cb8 Subject: Re: [9fans] music storage Topicbox-Message-UUID: 943f35e8-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --001a11c353e6dc779704ed214cb8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 jees, i traded a bit of quality for space On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 9:04 PM, Steven Stallion 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 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 > > > > --001a11c353e6dc779704ed214cb8 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
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 fami= ly'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<= br> > is better; perhaps its my age.
>
> -Steve
>


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