Comment Re:MP3s still work fine (Score 1) 129
Audio degradation is insignificant if you rip back at a high bit rate.
OK, if you don't mind using two or three times more disk space.
Hardly any time is wasted. CD-RW's can be burned and ripped while you're doing something else.
Also a good point, although the time is certainly > 0. You have to arrange the songs into disk-length sets, unwrap the CD, insert the CD, etc.
No plastic is wasted, CD-RW's are reusable, supposedly thousands of times.
CD-RWs are a good idea. I gave up on them after I had several in a row fail after one use, but maybe my experience is atypical.
The metadata (song title, album title, genre, etc.) isn't lost in the burn/re-rip cycle. iTunes stores the data on the CD somehow.
Cool; I didn't know this, and it was the main thing stopping me from using this method. Thanks. They probably store a CD-TEXT block like the ones that cdrdao can read and write. I'll have to test that.
You have to admit, though, that even after you set straight the accidental FUD in my previous comment, Hymn is a "better" method: smaller files, no plastic waste at all, less time, zero audio degredation. And it's not like Apple will ever win the arms race against hymn and make it completely useless.
Thanks for setting me straight, though.
W
OK, if you don't mind using two or three times more disk space.
Hardly any time is wasted. CD-RW's can be burned and ripped while you're doing something else.
Also a good point, although the time is certainly > 0. You have to arrange the songs into disk-length sets, unwrap the CD, insert the CD, etc.
No plastic is wasted, CD-RW's are reusable, supposedly thousands of times.
CD-RWs are a good idea. I gave up on them after I had several in a row fail after one use, but maybe my experience is atypical.
The metadata (song title, album title, genre, etc.) isn't lost in the burn/re-rip cycle. iTunes stores the data on the CD somehow.
Cool; I didn't know this, and it was the main thing stopping me from using this method. Thanks. They probably store a CD-TEXT block like the ones that cdrdao can read and write. I'll have to test that.
You have to admit, though, that even after you set straight the accidental FUD in my previous comment, Hymn is a "better" method: smaller files, no plastic waste at all, less time, zero audio degredation. And it's not like Apple will ever win the arms race against hymn and make it completely useless.
Thanks for setting me straight, though.
W
