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

[Johnny Rosenberg]

Den 2010-09-10 01:02:06 skrev Andrew Farris <flyindragon1 at aol.com>:

> 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

Well, when groups record songs, maybe all the songs are not written by the  
same member.

>
>> 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 :)
>

Sorry for my ignorance, I didn't know there even was such things as multi  
channel Audio CDs… I though that multi channel recordings are available  
only on Audio DVD or SACD.

-- 
Kind regards

Johnny Rosenberg