Creating your digital media library - audio?

HereToday

coffeehound said:

I've never ripped a CD -- how long does it take exactly?  Think I'll just stick with CDs.

On the whole Hifi debate, I must say listening on the laptop with headphonnes through a DAC rather than just plugged into the 3.5mm jack makes a very noticeable improvement

Answers your question and covers some variables: https://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthread.php?41118-How-Long-to-rip-FLAC-uncompressed

JustAnotherSaver

HereToday said:

Though it could have something to do with playing and listening to musical instruments; so the ears are more finely tuned as to how something should sound. When it doesn't, it irks.

So there actually is a backstory to your scoff after all then

Some background info of my own - I'm not 'deaf' but I seem to struggle hearing. I don't know what it is, whether it's a range or pitch or whatever the correct terminology would be or whatever. I watch the TV with subtitles on because of this reason as it's just easier than rewinding all the time.

I work with plant machinery which may play a part in this or be the total cause of this, who knows.

I listen to some 128 bit mp3s and think they're not that bad whereas i listen to others and they sound so hollow. It's not consistent for me.

Jeremy_Da_Silva

HereToday said:

JustAnotherSaver said:

I'll assume that some of you have created a digital library of all your audio - all the albums you own, singles, so on & so forth.

I started creating my movie library and it's mostly done I guess. I've some more movies that will need ripping but i'm now at a point i'll need to decide to either buy more storage or compress what I currently have in storage and whether I convert some or all and also to what.

And that's just the movie side. I haven't even started on the audio side yet as i have way way more to rip in terms of audio.

Any pointers that I may not think about until i'm about 50 albums in and then think oh damn why didn't i do that earlier, i'll need to start again?

The obvious decision is mp3 / wav / FLAC. I only heard about FLAC at the very beginning of this journey. I hear little to no difference between a ripped mp3 (say 192 bitrate) and the CD itself.

I don't know if there's anything aside from this that would help when building a library. Albums are obvious but i have CDs and CDs and CDs of various tracks that i acquired over the years that aren't part of any albums but are from artists who I have albums of. Unreleased tracks, original tracks that were altered when they made it to album format. Not overly sure how i'll pigeon hole these ones yet.

Or for you once you decided which format you were ripping to was that pretty much your only decision to make?

I was so appalled by this statement; that I stopped reading what came after. But then I reminded myself that we are all different....or that you need better headphones/HiFi setup

If you realise that we are all different then why do you constantly take it on yourself to upset and belittle people when they post something wrong?