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Originally Posted by homoludens1000
@ReferenceSeete:
Any reason that you are not using RubyRipper despite its thoroughness?
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I don't use RubyRipper despite its thoroughness for three reasons:
1. My media are well taken care of. I don't need my ripping software to restore what would otherwise be lost to scratches.
2. My CD library is sizable and cdparanoia's error correction alone is nothing to laugh at. Using RubyRipper would only make a long process even longer for negligible gain (IMHO).
3. I'm more of a musicphile than an audiophile. I don't need a rip to be bit-perfect since in most cases no one will know the difference. In fact for a personal library, the ripped copy will likely become the 'reference' material to one's ears since the copy is what will be heard the most. As long as the rip doesn't have noticeable errors, I'm fine.
The reason I'd like to re-rip my collection in the future to FLAC is for convenience down the road. When I first ripped my music I did it all to LAME 128 CBR. When I got more serious about listening to my collection on my computer, I moved away from the basic speakers that came with a PC - remember when "multimedia PCs" were all the rage? - and I also upgraded the quality of my files by re-ripping my CDs: This time OGG Vorbis q6 through q8, depending on the material. What stinks is if I want to move everything to another format or quality level, I'll need to rip discs for the third time.
So when I have time and another HDD, I'm going to rip to lossless so future re-encoding will be less painful. Having it all as FLAC means being able to quickly re-encode batches for whatever purpose instead of trying to find a compromise between quality and size that may work for one situation (say, a computer with 150+ GiB HDD) but not another (a cell phone with 0.5-2 GiB micro SD).
It just takes way too long to rip a couple hundred discs with one CD drive, so no more ripping to lossy for me.