... snip ... On Sun, 4 Feb 2018, David King wrote: > On 02/03/2018 05:03 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > 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. > > > That's exactly what I did five years ago, ripped all my CDs to FLAC > using the abcde tool... i just did a quick test with abcde, ripping a CD to flac both with and without the "-1" option (diff being ripping to a single FLAC file versus individual FLAC files). the difference in final, total size is negligible, both directories around 267M. is there any benefit to one strategy or the other? i assume that i can rip a CD to a single FLAC file and, subsequently, break it into pieces later when i decide how i want to organize CDs and individual songs. all i want for now is to not rip in such a way that i regret it later when i discover i inadvertantly left out some useful meta-information from each CD. so for now, i'm looking at just, one CD at a time: $ abcde -1 -o flac am i overlooking anything? i can start the process of ripping several hundred CDs, knowing that, over time, i'll figure out more explicitly how i want to manage that content, and not having to start all over because i didn't do it properly the first time. rday _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
