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post #16 of 24
12/3/11 at 4:07pm
Originally Posted by rroseperry View Post


Jesus - This was the single line from the OP that prompted part of my first response:
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I know iTunes Match upgrades everything to 256 but I want 320, and I think the 256 material stays in the Cloud...
Is that clearer?

 

Whatever, move on....
 

 

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post #17 of 24
12/3/11 at 4:12pm

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Originally Posted by kwitel View Post

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 bet that's what you were thinking when you originally ripped the files: not enough space, can't hear a difference.

And now you have to rerip everything.

 

Save yourself some trouble in the future, rip to lossless, store it and save mp3s on your computer.

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post #18 of 24
12/3/11 at 5:03pm
Thread Starter 

Thanks to everyone for their replies and yes I agree, I will be going with LOSSLESS.

After a little research, i found that Geek Squad will do everything for me (including finding all relative artwork and including shipping)-all for $1 per CD.

 

I have roughly 900 cds that I would need to rerip so I think I may just go for it.

 

I honestly do not have the time or patience to do it on my own.

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post #19 of 24
12/3/11 at 5:06pm

The price isn't bad, but make sure you look up their procedure. I don't trust those guys.

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post #20 of 24
12/3/11 at 5:14pm

 

 

In general ripping requires 2 stages

    • ripping your entire CD collection
    • re-ripping it because now you have found out how to do it
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post #21 of 24
12/3/11 at 5:40pm
Thread Starter 
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Originally Posted by andrewberge View Post

The price isn't bad, but make sure you look up their procedure. I don't trust those guys.


Can i ask why not?

I initially thought that I should deal with a larger, more established company as opposed to  any one of the no name companies online.

I do believ there is an insurance policy as well.

 



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Originally Posted by MIKELAP View Post

 

 

In general ripping requires 2 stages

    • ripping your entire CD collection
    • re-ripping it because now you have found out how to do it


Not sure I follow...

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post #22 of 24
12/3/11 at 5:51pm

Personnally i reripped everything to flac good thing im retired its incredible the time i spent organising transfering  to edd and to dvd better safe than sorry .Man once you do all that you hope nothing happens to all that work. I used Musicbee media player to convert to flac. plus you have secure rip and error recovery its a pretty complete player and not complicated to configure. on top you have support and regular updates i like it 

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post #23 of 24
12/3/11 at 6:02pm
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Originally Posted by kwitel View Post


Can i ask why not?

I initially thought that I should deal with a larger, more established company as opposed to  any one of the no name companies online.

I do believ there is an insurance policy as well.



Oh, it's just horror stories i've read about them. All of them on Gizmodo (Hmm...). Example.

It depends on the process they use and who's doing it, i guess. Just make sure they're not ripping your files to mp3 than transcoding or something :)

 

Ideally they have their ripper in secure mode, checking against the accuraterip database, and if they don't match up: clean the disc and rip it again.


Edited by andrewberge - 12/3/11 at 6:04pm
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post #24 of 24
12/3/11 at 6:04pm
Thread Starter 
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Originally Posted by MIKELAP View Post

Personnally i reripped everything to flac good thing im retired its incredible the time i spent organising transfering  to edd and to dvd better safe than sorry .Man once you do all that you hope nothing happens to all that work. I used Musicbee media player to convert to flac. plus you have secure rip and error recovery its a pretty complete player and not complicated to configure. on top you have support and regular updates i like it 



Im going to rip it all lossless and then copy that to another 2 drives and literally throw one in my safe deposit box.

That said, iTunes Match is very interesting and I think there will be a time in the near future where all you will have to do is "prove" you already own a digital version of an album(s)/song(s) and the cloud company will provide you with lossless versions of whatever you already own.

The question is, can one then in turn take what is in lossless on the cloud, and then simply download that to one's home network server/hard-drive...

 

Itunes match automatically upgrades all of your music to 256 but im not sure you can then physically download that music to your own drive.

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