A smattering of opinions on technology, books, business, and culture. Now in its 4th technology iteration.
04 February 2006
After expunging the Netgear SC101 disaster from my network, I found that I had lost about 10% of my ripped CDs – notably all my Led Zep.
So time to rerip. After reviewing all of Rich’s goodness on codecs, I decided it was time to go lossless. On my new WidowPC rig, I installed:
* dbpoweramp for ripping * the flac codec for lossless support * accuraterip to help insure correct ripping
So starting the process now. Will take months to complete as a background task. Glad I still have all the cds around. I rip to flac for longterm storage, and then convert to mp3 so that the ipod and other devices can deal with. Really not much more painful than ripping straight to mp3 – dbpoweramp does a pretty good job at batch conversion.