Dreading having to re-rip all of my CDs to a higher bitrate. Any way around this?

Why rip to Mp3 at all?

I would rip them all to lossless.

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Originally Posted by kwitel 

Well, I for one cannot tell the difference between LOSSLESS and 320.

Second, my home computer now has an SSD at 256gigs, so space is an issue.

I guess I could just use an external drive for all the LOSSLESS but then id have to downgrade all of that to 320 to keep it on my PC/Laptop.

 

I guess I could just do something like this: http://www.dmp3digital.com/order/

Well you collection so your choice.  Do you have kids, cousins, nephews?  Set the system up and show them how to do it and pay them for the job.

Seems alot cheaper then sending them out...

How many CD's do you have?

Hey Kwitel

I had to do this myself unfortunately, i tried quite a few tools and ideas, but i ended up ripping all my cds (many thousands). 

Cons: It took me absolutely ages (i used to do about 30-50 a night)

          I can only fit a small % of my library on my iPod (and even less on my iPhone)

Pros: I rediscovered loads of tunes that i hadnt heard in years

         My music collection has never sounded better, there is better separation, cleaner sound and i can hear instruments and parts that i      couldnt make out before.

Best of luck!!

Mark

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Originally Posted by rroseperry 

There's not any way around it unfortunately. The upgrades aren't going to produce better files, just bigger ones. I had to do this myself a while ago and like mark above, it took months.
You will find stuff you'd completely forgotten about and that's definitely a bonus.

Well as to if they are better or not is an opinion.

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Originally Posted by rroseperry 


I'm not sure what you mean. If he finds some program that takes his 192 file and turns it into a 320 file, that's no improvement at all. I don't think you can recreate the information that was lost in the initial lossy copy. Of course, if this is possible, I'd like to learn about it.
imo, the higher bitrate files, 320 over 128 for the most extreme example, are absolutely worth it, which is why I re-ripped my library this year.

Well of course not, when transcoding from a lossy copy to begin with!

He is talking about re-ripping from the original CD's to a higher bit rates.

It's a pain but worth it.  I had to do it a few years back.  I'd still rip in a lossless format to put on an external drive for archival purposes.  It is easy enough to make 320 kbps copies for your SSD.  That way if you ever have the itch to upgrade again, at least you won't have to re-rip all your music.  Just my 2 cents worth. 

Unless you can find someone to do it for you, sit down with your favorite beverage and just start ripping. Good luck.

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Originally Posted by rroseperry 


I got that, but you clearly didn't seem to get that I was agreeing with Mark that re-ripping is the way to go. There are some people who try to upsample existing rips. That was what I was warning about.

  The entire topics has been, the OP re-ripping his CD collection, not re-encoding from his Mp3 collection.

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Originally Posted by fatcat28037 

Unless you can find someone to do it for you, sit down with your favorite beverage and just start ripping. Good luck.

Yep.  Grab a drink set up the system and go to work.  You can get moving pretty fast if you have a good application that tags and organizes for you.

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Originally Posted by alexsj 

It's a pain but worth it.  I had to do it a few years back.  I'd still rip in a lossless format to put on an external drive for archival purposes.  It is easy enough to make 320 kbps copies for your SSD.  That way if you ever have the itch to upgrade again, at least you won't have to re-rip all your music.  Just my 2 cents worth. 

Another great reason to move to flac if possible.  Once they are in the drive, transcoding them to another format is extremely fast in comparison to ripping from optical media.