>
> BTW, FLAC is lossless, and doesn't compress as much as MP3 (roughly 50%,
> not the 90+% compression you can expect with MP3). So each 700MB CD will
> take-up about 350MB. Three hundred CDs should total around 100GB (give
> or take). Then you would need room for the transcoded MP3s (unless you
> player and LAN can handle FLAC directly).
>
> --ronan
>
>> I have a bunch of CDs (music, not money), and I'm going to inherit
>> more (um, yippee, sorta). I have a 200-disc carousel, and it's full.
>> So what do you folks recommend? I can keep on buying carousels (those
>> that daisy-chain this time), or I can rip all the CDs into MP3 or ogg
>> and build a Via-based machine to play them that has:
>>
>> a solid-state hard drive or three (I sleep in there, so noise is bad,
>> mmmkay?)
>> a reasonably pretty interface
>> a halfway decent sound card (it's going to an amp, so one headphone
>> output is all I need)
>>
>> I'm ripping a test CD into VBR MP3 at (up to) 128, 160, and 192 kbps
>> to see how big it is. ... done:
>>
>> 51445905 mp3-128
>> 53575870 mp3-160
>> 53832276 mp3-192
>> 618874624 wav
>>
>> At 2*2*44100 B/sec for CDs, that works out to 58:28 of music, which is
>> reasonable. It's piano jazz.
>>
FLAC for the win. Disc space is CHEAP. If your going to rip 300 CDs you
don't what to ever have do it again. Like ronan said above FLAC is
lossless. From your archive you can transcode is how you like for
portable devices and such.
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