I gave up some time back and ripped the family's cd collection (around 500 discs) to ALAC. After that I converted most to AAC for listening on audio players and left the original rips sitting in storage. Needless to say, Goodwill was a little surprised to find 500 discs donated at once!
On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Steve Simon <st...@quintile.net> wrote: >> just downloading a torrent with the mp3's seems simpler >> than swapping cd's. :) > > Just beware, in my experience of this (for research purposes, > yes really!) many, if not most CD images in WAV or PCM format > are in fact decodes of MP3s, and many of these where low bitrate > MP3s which are nasty. > > personally I have moved away from compressed audio, not because > I distrust compression, but I like browsing through a pile of CDs > looking for somthing that matches my mood - for me the user interface > is better; perhaps its my age. > > -Steve >
