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#1901

good job choosing a free and open standard :+1:

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#1902

yep flac is the best format for audio imo. ogg is also decent but I prefer flac.

Good luck. reason I havenā€™t redone mine in flac yet is just the amount of time it would take to rip them all.

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#1903

Lossless is more important than filesize. But mp3 seems to have wider support.

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#1904

IMO i would rip the CDs in the highest possible quality and than transcode the media to whatever file format you actually want to use. This would save you the hassle of having to rip the CDs again if you wanted to play the music on something that required a different format without a quality loss

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#1905

So, WAV?

#1906

WAV, Apple Lossless, AIFF, etc.

#1907

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#1908

kek. was a suggestion.

#1909

For now Iā€™ll rip them to flac.
If I should ever feel the need for something uncompressed Iā€™ll do the same procedure with wav.
Just like I did with my blurays and first h264, then h265.
Is it smart? No. But sometimes I like doing stuff like that just so I can feel busy and productive.

edit: damn youā€¦doing wav now instead of flac -_-

edit2: or not. 1 album = ~800mb-1GB. nope.

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#1910

something something DAMN YOU EFFICIENCY. DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!!

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#1911

well yeah. your storing the whole CD worth of audio

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#1912

mustā€¦resistā€¦hnngā€¦
donā€™t want to buy new hdd so soonā€¦

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#1913

You could always compress the albums with something that has a high compression ratio like LZMA. Is what I do to store my wav files. isnā€™t much but it helps a bit.

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#1914

you should invest into a NAS as some point

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#1915

^ this. networked storage makes your life soo much easier.

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#1916

Iā€™d need more HDDs regardless of where they are located. Be it a NAS or my desktop PC.

#1917

beyond 5-6 drives a NAS is a good idea because then your no longer limited by the desktop and can do more advanced things like raid to help mitigate disaters

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#1918

Iā€™d need to read up on raid 1 before I consider it over jbod+manual backups.

#1919

raid 1 is fairly shit. raid 6 would be a better option.

ZFS is even better but has a fair bit of overhead

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#1920

And whatever you do, donā€™t use raid 5 with BTRFS :stuck_out_tongue:

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