Thank you all for the information.
Eventually I will probably be purchasing some sort of external player. As is right now, I have a 512 MB SD card that i use for mp3's on my Treo. I've thought maybe I could get away with buying a 1 GB card and just changing the albums on it a few times a week...but I'm sure that would quickly get annoying and it'd only be a matter of time before I purchased a hard drive based player.
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Originally Posted by redlemon
If you really want to be obsessive, get an even bigger hard drive and archive every CD to one of the lossless methods (FLAC, SHIN, lossless AAC, etc.). You can store that hard drive in a fireproof safe somewhere. When you get a portable music player, calcluate how big you can make each file using your preferred compression method, and do an overnight (or perhaps multi-day) recompression from the master external drive to a different location. Repeat as necessary as codecs improve.
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That's a hell of an idea...I'll have to do some reasearch on these codecs...but how big a drive would I need for this lossless copy of my library? I'm close to 500 CD's.
Oh, and I didn't mention initially, but I have stuff on vinyl that I'd probably like to encode...quick glance at the CDex page shows it supports analog line-in...I suppose EAC is strictly CD?
One last question, the APS for Lame is what, 128 VBR?
Thanks again. Off to dig through the hydrogenaudio forums a bit...