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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">This is pretty much what I do; my
system had been to use Grip on CDs (I prefer having hard artifacts
that only fire or outright theft can take from me when it comes to
music), have Grip encode to FLAC and then run a Python script that
makes a parallel tree of MP3s. Handling the porting of tags from
FLAC to MPe wasn't working as well as I'd have liked, though. I
haven't used it extensively and I've forgotten what it's called,
but I recently tried a replacement for Grip that would save to
FLAC and MP3 in one pass, which is much more like I would have
wanted but at the same time I'll still want to go from FLAC to MP3
for vinyl and tape rips so some scripting to cover that is still
desirable.<br>
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On 8/5/15 11:03 AM, Phil Turmel wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">+1 for Flac. And as noted by others, you really need to keep the CDs.
I put mine on the spindles that blank media were on.
I keep a substantial collection of Flac on my home media server and
maintain a parallel folder of MP3s with the attached script. I have a
lot of international music and the script does a decent job with the
character set handling.
When I want to shuffle the content of my portable devices, the MP3s are
close at hand. Everything in the house plays the Flac files.
On 08/04/2015 05:31 PM, DJ-Pfulio wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Flac. No question. Flac. It is just storage. Anything less is lossy.
On 08/04/2015 05:23 PM, Chris Fowler wrote:
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<pre wrap="">These are ideas. I could recycle the cases and just store the CDs in
sleeves. That would cut down on space usage. What is the best format
for export? Ogg or MP3? What rate would be the best rate without
eating up tons of space?
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