[ale] CD -> MP3

[Jeff Hubbs]

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.

On 8/5/15 11:03 AM, Phil Turmel wrote:
> +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:
>> Flac. No question. Flac. It is just storage. Anything less is lossy.
>>
>> On 08/04/2015 05:23 PM, Chris Fowler wrote:
>>> 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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