Yeah! Did that once, many years back. took a couple weeks. Used a ripper program that went out on the net and got all the metadata, saved to a HD (now on the third one). Put the CDs in Logic cases (no-wear), recycled the jewelboxes. Started to drop album folders into VLC, save the playlists, at ur fingertips.
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Pretzilla@lemmy.world 10 months ago
FYI ripping wise, FLAC is the way to go.
And there are guides to using EAC and similar ripping software to get perfect rips.
Well worth the effort to do it once and perfectly.
kalkulat@lemmy.world 10 months ago
d_k_bo@feddit.de 10 months ago
FYI encoding wise, it’s unlikely that you can hear a difference between FLAC and e.g. Opus if you rip the audio from a CD.
wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Perhaps, but if you ever want to renecode to something else, it’s much better to have a lossless source to begin with.
Rehwyn@lemmy.world 10 months ago
This 100%. A FLAC CD rip is maybe 400MB. That’s 2,500 albums per terabyte, and I just recently got an 18TB drive for my NAS for $180. That’s $0.004 per album storage cost. I’d rather have a lossless permanent copy of any of my CDs than save fractions of a penny per album.
Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
In most cases yes, but hdd space is cheap enough that lossless compression is just the best option. Can always use them as originals to spin off mp3s or other compressed files when needed.
300cds would only be around 120 gigs flac compressed