GSV Three Minds in a Can wrote:

Does anyone have any opinions/facts on what level of WMA or MP3
resolution it is worth ripping/storing music to which has come from LP
by way of cassettes (Dolby B/C, and a decent cassette deck .. even a
decent turntable and pre-amp .. but even so, I guess using the
160kbit/sec WMA format that I usually use for CD ripping is probably a
waste of time, space, and money).

Use a lossless codec; that way you won't have to re-rip when you want to
convert tomorrow's latest and greatest format.

Also bear in mind noisy analogue sources (LP/tape) are more difficult to
encode than clean digital sources (such as a CD) for a codec such as WMA or
MP3. So you'll get worse sound at a given bitrate from the analogue source.

See http://flac.sourceforge.net/

I do not wish to enter in to an "LP is not a noisy format" discussion. What
I have written is correct.

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