Lossless; clear sound with no compression artifacts or “sizzle” Liner Art! Feelies! Presentation! There’s an art and a vibe for each album. Supported on most platforms No encryption or Digital Rights Management Can listen to CDs long after the music store goes out of business CDs are never “no longer available in the library” After …
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So the new Rush album, “Clockwork Angels” was released today to the North American market. After work, I stopped by Cheapo CDs on Lamar to pick up a copy. After scanning the bins, I asked the guy if he had it in stock. “No, we don’t have it, sorry.” I laughed incredulously, “Really?” “Yeah, it’s …
It’s finally done. My month-long project to rip my entire CD collection into FLAC files was completed this afternoon. 560 albums, 186GB, roughly 339.2MB per album. Aside from a few low-priority sounds effects discs (and a copy of U2’s “All That You Can’t Leave Behind” which got destroyed in the ripping process), here’s my collection …
This question goes out to all you librarians and taxonomists in my readership. I have a large music collection, and I make every effort to keep all of my file tags as clean, correct and complete as possible. This allows me to easily search my collection and drill down to the artist, album, and song …
I suppose the downside to using FLAC as a codec for storing your music is that the file sizes are much, much larger than MP3. Based on my current statistics, each album will average around 340MB on disk, which seems like a lot but it’s not bad considering the Red Book Standard for CDs declares …
