geogan
Prominent Member
Hello,
I think this is the correct forum to ask in...
I have a shelf full of traditional music CDs (for you young uns - these had real uncompressed 16bit 44kHz stereo audio before the music industry started shoveling highly compressed lossy mpeg formats)
I would like to put these away in attic and just play the content from my Windows PC based media server.
Anyway I would like to know what currenty is the best format to rip CDs to these days?
In the old days I would just rip to MP3s, and while that was very efficient in disc space, it was far from lossless quality.
What I want is lossless (or as near as possible), CD quality (16bit 44kHz stereo) and not original 600Mb storage per CD so compressed some way (So not original CD WAV format then).
And also what PC software to do this quickly to many discs?
Thanks
I think this is the correct forum to ask in...
I have a shelf full of traditional music CDs (for you young uns - these had real uncompressed 16bit 44kHz stereo audio before the music industry started shoveling highly compressed lossy mpeg formats)
I would like to put these away in attic and just play the content from my Windows PC based media server.
Anyway I would like to know what currenty is the best format to rip CDs to these days?
In the old days I would just rip to MP3s, and while that was very efficient in disc space, it was far from lossless quality.
What I want is lossless (or as near as possible), CD quality (16bit 44kHz stereo) and not original 600Mb storage per CD so compressed some way (So not original CD WAV format then).
And also what PC software to do this quickly to many discs?
Thanks