On Sat, 3 Feb 2018, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Fri, Feb 02, 2018 at 05:29:40PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > one of my new year's resolutions was to digitize several hundred > > music CDs in preparation for figuring out what system to use in the > > domicile to play them, but regardless of how i decide to eventually > > play these CDs, i'm looking for recommendations for how to rip them to > > hard drive before i decide how i will end up using them. > > > > given the cheapness of hard drives (and that i have a QNAP NAS > > anyway), i don't really care about disk usage, so i figured on ripping > > all of those CDs using (lossless) FLAC format, and i can decide down > > the road whether to convert them to a different format to save on > > space. > > > > in short, any recommendations on simply ripping all these CDs to > > hard drive, while having no idea what i will eventually use to play > > them? > > I only had about 60 CDs to rip, but like you was uncertain about > format. > > I used "abcde" which let me save .wav, .flac, .oog, and .mp3 in 1 > run. for now, i was thinking of ripping just to .flac since that's lossless and i can always decide later what further format to rip to in order to save space. does that make sense? i just want to avoid having to go back and rip everything all over again. rday _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx