Is flac even necessary if they are coming off CDs? A CD is most often 192kbps mp3 format.
To me, ripping to flac is like ripping a 720p video to 4k and just filling in the extra resolution with black bars.
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wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Nah man. If you care about your CDs you should already have them ripped to flac format, so the disc rot can’t kill them. Convert to mp3 vbr0 for tossing them on a player or your phone. Listen with whatever ear buds you like.
It’s not like vinyl or casette tape, where the analog nature of the storage medium is going to effect the sound. CDs are pure digital, just a carrying case for the files on them.
gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
That’s the first thing I did with all my Frank Zappa cds… converted them to digital and put the cds away so they wouldn’t end up scratched.
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I agree about ripping the CDs to files, but disc rot is not a big deal to worry about if you’re storing the CDs properly away from sunlight and heat. Recently I’ve been going through my collection and ripping old CDs of stuff I didn’t have in the digital library… and all my CDs from the 90s that I’ve tried are still good. Many of these are 30+ years old and still sound perfect
Valmond@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Flac or wav, right? Is flac smaller?
Or go 320kbps mp3…
Laser@feddit.org 3 months ago
wav is uncompressed PCM usually, flac is compressed and as such smaller (difference in size depending on the kind of music), but they’re both lossless with the resulting signal being bit for bit identical to the data on the CD.
320 kbps MP3 makes little sense nowadays except for when you need maximum quality for a device supporting nothing else. For long term storage, use flac.
Juvyn00b@lemmy.world 3 months ago
There’s still some use cases for sure. My 4 gig Garmin running watch (2.5 usable) might play flac but I want more than a few albums on it.
Laser@feddit.org 3 months ago
Then again why would it need to be at 320 kbit for this kind of use case
SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 3 months ago
Why mp3 vbr0 and not opus?
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
The only reason to use mp3 is if you want to play it on old devices. It’s much better to use opus on anything that supports it.
SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 3 months ago
Yeah, that makes sense.
Thankfully, most things I have support opus, even a very old iPod, thanks to Rockbox.
MonkderDritte@feddit.de 3 months ago
Yeah, i like them converted to opus better. Guess the psychoacoustic compression does something.