On Sunday 09 October 2005 21:08, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Dana,
On Sunday 09 October 2005 19:01, Dana J. Laude wrote:
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Thanks James. I can play via RealPlayer also, but I really don't care to use it. I prefer XMMS. I'll eventually convert everything over to Vorbis (OGG) format and be done with it.
I recently lost the disk on which I had my CD collection in Ogg-Vorbis (a few months ago I left my Rio Karma on the bus!). My plan now is to rip the discs to FLAC (http://flac.sourceforge.net/) and keep them on a hard drive. Then I'll make player-specific (Ogg-Vorbis, MP3 etc. as the case may be) when I need to load them onto a player. That way I'm not committed to a particular quality level or encoding format. I don't want to rip repeatedly because I'm very picky about tags, and I end up spending a lot of time cleaning up all the very messy, inconsistent and / or incomplete disc information in the on-line repositories such as MusicBrainz and FreeDB.
Fortunately, my CD collection is not all that big, so it's not hard to get a sufficiently large hard drive for this strategy to be feasible.
Thanks for the link Randall, looks like a interesting site. (bookmarked already) I wish all of these MP3 "issues" could be fixed, but I understand Novell's stand. (better safe than sorry) Dana - KC9AAE