On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 12:26 -0500, Max Pyziur wrote: > In my case, I've ditched 90% of my LPs in favor of mp3s. [...] Just a side note here: Your best bet in this case is to store them all losslessly, such as in FLAC. The MP3 format, while also having patent and other legal concerns, earns its high compression ratio by discarding much of the extreme parts of the music data as well as using other algorithms to create a file that is much smaller and sounds the same, but is not. FLAC, however, is lossless: When uncompressed, it is the EXACT bit-for-bit PCM and other data of your audio file. However, for most people, high-bitrate lossy formats such as MP3 and Ogg Vorbis are "Good Enough(tm)" in that one cannot easily distinguish the difference between the encoded audio and the original track without probably-very-expensive audio hardware. For general backup purposes, I use rsync to copy my entire home directory, various configuration files in /etc, and other important data to a secondary and larger hard disk whose sole purpose is storage of this material. It suits my needs well enough. If you're more paranoid about data loss (such as for production systems in a workplace environment or similar) you may want to look into keeping multiple off-site copies of the data as well. Hope that helps. -- Peter Gordon (codergeek42) GnuPG Public Key ID: 0xFFC19479 / Fingerprint: DD68 A414 56BD 6368 D957 9666 4268 CB7A FFC1 9479 My Blog: http://thecodergeek.com/blog/
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