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
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d_k_bo@feddit.de 8 months agoFYI 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.
Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 8 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 8 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.