Bitstring , from the wonderful person
Stimpy said
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To be honest, if this is going to be a 'one of a kind' master copy that can
never be recreated - don't use MP3!! Master it as a raw WAV file and
compress with a lossless compression format (flac or ape) so that you can
always get back to the original master quality. That way, when a better
quaility format comes along, you haven't hamstrung yourself and
irretrievably lost something from the recording. I use flac for my
one-of-a-kind masters...

Nope, it's really just stuff that I have on vinyl, but want to get onto
the computer (I already have it on cassette, and in most cases it's
easier to rip from the cassettes rather than trying to get the
turntable/preamp to meet with the computer). Hardly 'unique' except in
many cases it is not available on CD (in other cases I don't like it
enough to buy it again, but do want it to be 'available' for listening
to on the PC, or for stuffing down into an MP3 player).

I know 'disk is cheap', but dealing with Terabyte music databases just
isn't much fun (even the ripping, and cleaning up, never mind the
backing up!), especially if 99% of the digitised information would be
'imaginary' because the LP/Cassettes already ate some of the resolution.

I guess I can rip it as 'CD quality .wav' files (44Khz, 16 bit) even if
that is overkill, and burn CD-Rs with it, and then just use the windows
media player 'rip CD to .WMA' to get something sensible for storing and
playing with. (?).

If I need '96 bit accuracy' (8.) sometime before I expire, I can always
go back to the original vinyl (assuming I still have a working
turntable, cartridge, and preamp) and re-rip that.

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