how trivially can i rip my CD collection to FLAC format?

[Andrew Farris]

On Wed, 2010-09-08 at 21:12 +0200, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
> and I used Sound Juicer to do it (collection of ±500 CDs).
> 
> What do you mean by ±500? How can you have -500 CDs? I suppose you
> mean  
> ≈500 CDs, but maybe I just don't understand what you were trying to
> say…

I just meant about 500 CDs. Sorry if the '±' was confusing, as I'm used
to using it as a shorthad for 'about' for other purposes... the '≈'
would have been a better symbol.

> > Sound Juicer nicely handled filling in all the essential info for
> the
> > music tracks (Artist, Album, Track name/number) as well as some
> optional
> > ones (genre, year, etc...) and filing them away in my chosen music
> > folder.
> 
> Yes, but not Composer and Original artist, which could be interesting
> for  
> some people, I guess. Or maybe it's only me as usual.

Good point, although most modern music is composed by the people who are
performing it (this obviously excludes covers, etc.) so the only time I
think this would be important is for classical music. I could be wrong
though, just my .02

> Yes, but on a CD that is recorded with 2 channels, how can it convert
> that  
> to 6 chennels? The information is nowhere on the CD so where does it
> get  
> it? Is it some kind of psycho-acoustic effect of some kind? Sounds to
> me  
> that it's just a waste of space

It may very well be a waste of space. I just did it that way because
I've got some multi-channel CDs and some where I'm not sure (plus I'm
lazy, and I've got the space). just wanted to share my experiences in
the hope that they'd help somebody :)

-- 
Andrew
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