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Originally Posted by TheProf
Wav's don't get many rave reviews because essentially you're copying the contents of the CD to your hard drive. While this maintains nearly perfect audio quality, it also takes up the maximum amount of space (10 MB/min as a general rule of thumb) and also is usually void of any artist/title/album data.
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2) There are many encoders available. Which encoder you want to use depends on what target mp3 you want to create. ...
I'd recommend you take some of your favorite music tracks that you like to listen to, rip and encode using a few different methods, and then listen to them the way you'd normally be listening to your full collection. Whichever one is most pleasing to your ear, go with that.
... if you rip a WAV file, encode it to mp3, decode it back to wav, and then load that and the original wav file into an audio editor, you'll notice a difference in the waveforms.
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I need some advice: I have a collection of vinyl which I have started to back up onto my computer as WAV files. Now, my original intention was to keep them all as WAV format, and then to burn them to CD, as separate albums, along with scanning and printing the album art that goes with them, in order to 'preserve' the collection.
However, I recognize that I would like to encode a majority of these to MP3 as well, for ease of use, portability etc.
I have poked around the shareware sites for free encoders, but so far have not had any luck in finding one that will allow me to point to my hard drive as the source of WAV files, versus a CD in the cd drive.
anybody out there have any advice for me?