On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 18:08, J.B. Nicholson-Owens wrote: > What you could do is re-rip and re-encode in a lossless format like FLAC. > FLAC is both Free Software and lossless (hence the name (F)ree (L)ossless > (A)udio (C)odec). http://flac.sourceforge.net/ has more information. The > tradeoff you're making is size--FLAC files are bound to be larger than the > lossy-compressed versions of the same audio. I've seen FreshRPMs.net carry > FLAC programs for many GNU/Linux distributions. > http://yarrow.freshrpms.net/rpm.html?id=65 has RPMs for Fedora Core 1 > GNU/Linux (including an XMMS plugin to play FLACs directly). Thanks for the tip. Since I ripped these at 320Kbps, they are already huge... but Dark Side of the Moon just doesn't sound right in 128Kbps. I was hoping to avoid putting over 300 CDs through the machine again... ah well. I guess its something to do over Xmas vacation from work. Lat time I got an egg timer and set it for the length of each rip/encode, and just had it go off over and over again until I was done. The constant reminder helped plow through them all pretty quickly. It will be even better this time since I can rip from the Linux box rather than running to some broken Windoze box every few minutes. > >From a lossless encoding scheme you can go to any lossless scheme you wish > and never have to re-rip again (so long as you're satisfied with the rip you > encoded losslessly). By sticking with a Free Software encoding scheme, you > have software you can port to whatever OS you want and you'll never have to > fear making your collection obsolete because your new software won't read > your old files. That's true too. -- Exile In Paradise Weinberg's Principle: An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.
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