Between resurgent audiophile, new and reissue vinyl, and previously unimagined volumes of exciting new music on streaming platforms, I have more than my ears can handle. (And I also have a ton of things parked on Bandcamp). I think if I ever get a DAP for travel, when I start traveling again, I will likely load up some SD or micro-SD cards for use with the player. I have a CD suitcase with more than 400 CD-Rs packed with tunes, that collects dust, as do most of the 200 or so CDs I still own that sit on a shelf or in a box. If streaming had not come along, it would be a different story but I just can’t motivate to do much of anything with it. among other things, going back to the 1970s), but there are probably 2TBs worth of material, half on a large outboard drive, and the rest lingering on various computer drives needing to be collated. I lack the drive to try very hard at archiving ripped CDs or downloaded files (I have made a living as a professional music critic. ![]() Now when I listen to my collection I cannot tell a difference in sound quality between playing the disc on my Oppo player or playing the files with JRiver through my Rega DAC, so I typically do the latter. My primary advice to anyone wanting to rip a CD collection is get a good accurate and secure bit-perfect ripping program like dBpoweramp or EAC and do it the best way the first time. Storage is so cheap and easily available. Having a local library of lossless music is still very important to me as a listener (and as a collector, I still have a conditioned tendency to identify myself through my collection, for better or worse), though I have also got into the world of lossless and hi-res streaming as a Qobuz subscriber. Presently that 4TB drive is not quite half full, and that includes some lossless uncompressed hi-res surround files (which I ripped from disc even though I do not at this time have a surround system and only listen in stereo). I have since ripped all my audio DVD discs and my SACD discs, and purchased a decent amount of CD quality and hi-res downloads. To hold my whole music library I bought an extra internal 4TB hard drive for my Windows 10 desktop PC. I ripped the whole collection for the third time (hopefully the last time) to AIFF (I read that AIFF handle metadata tagging better than WAV). I bought dBpoweramp CD ripper and it is one of the best audio software purchases I have made (the other would be JRiver Media Center for digital playback). So when I concluded that I needed to rip it all again in lossless, I didn’t mess around with FLAC and trying to decide what setting to use for lossless compression. In 2018 I got into entry-level high-end audio, and came to understand about the superiority of lossless digital over lossy and compressed. Then some years later, I decided that 320 kbps would be better so I ripped them all again in iTunes. ![]() First time was way back when the iPod was a new thing, I ripped to 128 kbps. I actually ripped my whole collection three times.
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