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Tiser · 01-01-2006, 08:28 PM

Hello everyone. I have ~200 CDs. It is probably 210 now, ~40 of them are singles, the rest full albums or compilations/soundtracks.

It is about time I rip them all methodically onto my system, I have been planning to do this for some time. Ages ago, perhaps 5 years ago, I had much of my music - probably around 50 of the 100 or so albums - ripped to my system. But they were 160Kbps MP3s, and organized oddly, and I am not too fond of the files, and got rid of them as I was tied for space.

In the present, I want to rip all of my music into FLAC. Now, I know that there are some debates on doing this, but my reasons are pretty solid. Mostly, I have the hard drive space, and I *NEVER* want to rip my music again. With FLAC, I can transcode to FLAC2 or whatever replaces it in the future, without having to lose any quality. It may take up 40+ GB on my system, but I have plenty of space and I am only set to get more.

My problem is that I have an mp3 player that only plays mp3/wma. I use Linux and have for ages, but I want to have an easy way to pop some mp3 albums onto my player from my flac. Transcoding right now means a piping command line, and this is cumbersome. Of course, I could rip everything to a very good mp3, lame --alt preset extreme, and be done with it, but I am pretty firm on wanting FLAC.

I suppose there is a question in there. Does anyone have any suggestions on software arrangements? For everything A-Z. Ripping, tagging, playing. While I wasnt a fan of iTunes at first, after using it on my fathers computer, it really is great. XMMS and GRIP just have a poor interface. Any good replacement, that may transcode to decent mp3s on the fly?

(What a long winded way to ask a simple question.)

01-01-2006, 08:28 PM	#1 (permalink)
Tiser Crazy Location: Some big island.	I would like some input for organizing my computer music. Hello everyone. I have ~200 CDs. It is probably 210 now, ~40 of them are singles, the rest full albums or compilations/soundtracks. It is about time I rip them all methodically onto my system, I have been planning to do this for some time. Ages ago, perhaps 5 years ago, I had much of my music - probably around 50 of the 100 or so albums - ripped to my system. But they were 160Kbps MP3s, and organized oddly, and I am not too fond of the files, and got rid of them as I was tied for space. In the present, I want to rip all of my music into FLAC. Now, I know that there are some debates on doing this, but my reasons are pretty solid. Mostly, I have the hard drive space, and I NEVER want to rip my music again. With FLAC, I can transcode to FLAC2 or whatever replaces it in the future, without having to lose any quality. It may take up 40+ GB on my system, but I have plenty of space and I am only set to get more. My problem is that I have an mp3 player that only plays mp3/wma. I use Linux and have for ages, but I want to have an easy way to pop some mp3 albums onto my player from my flac. Transcoding right now means a piping command line, and this is cumbersome. Of course, I could rip everything to a very good mp3, lame --alt preset extreme, and be done with it, but I am pretty firm on wanting FLAC. I suppose there is a question in there. Does anyone have any suggestions on software arrangements? For everything A-Z. Ripping, tagging, playing. While I wasnt a fan of iTunes at first, after using it on my fathers computer, it really is great. XMMS and GRIP just have a poor interface. Any good replacement, that may transcode to decent mp3s on the fly? (What a long winded way to ask a simple question.)