Re: MP3 Backup

["Graham Howe" <graham@xxxxxxx>]

--- In ukha_d@y..., "Sullivan, Glenn" <gsullivan@d...>
wrote:
> Just a thought:
> 
> Why, in this day and age when hard drive space is so relatively 
cheap,
> wouldn't you want to use a lossless compression algorithm like FLAK
or SHIN
> instead of a loss one like MP3?
> 
2 reasons for me, the first is that I ripped it all before Flac was 
supported in my players (DDARs), the second is that at the moment 
there is no portable player that can handle Flac so I would need to 
duplicate stuff to carry it around with me.

> I guess I still don't like the idea of a computer program deciding
what I
> can and cannot hear... I want it all!
> 
I agree this is preferable

> I'm in the process of doing the same thing, only using EACH, FLAK,
and a
> couple of IDA tag programs I wrote in VB...
> 
I will probably re-rip everything eventually, but not until I can get 
software, network hardware and portable hardware that can all 
understand the same lossless format.

Graham



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