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Title: Flac encoding
Post by: WolfWalker on January 07, 2011, 02:46:59 pm

I have decided to re-rip my CD Collection. I have 3200 CD's That I would like to rip as FLAC but I know nothing about it. Can some give my step by step instruction. I have 2Tb hard drive so space is no issue. I would like to be able to put away my CD and hopefully never ever ever touch them again.

Title: Re: Flac encoding
Post by: bunglemebaby on January 07, 2011, 06:45:17 pm

Without you further specifying what you're trying to do, the short answer is "ripping to FLAC is just like ripping to MP3 in MC". The files will be larger, but that's about it.
If you're concerned about preserving metadata of previously ripped files, then you could have some work ahead of you. (eg you have a previous rip of Song_A.mp3 and now want to make a new rip to Song_A.flac, while preserving the metadata from Song_A.mp3...)

I think a forum search for "rerip" will give you a start at least, if that is what you're going after.

Title: Re: Flac encoding
Post by: WolfWalker on January 07, 2011, 07:13:01 pm

what I see is these numbers. what do they mean. should i use ogg or just FLAC. what is padding.

Title: Re: Flac encoding
Post by: MrC on January 07, 2011, 07:42:17 pm

Quality: How hard you want the flac encoder to try to compress.  Higher numbers save more space.  Not a huge difference between 5 and 8, for example.  Test out for yourself.  Quality is a misnomer - quality (since its loseless) is the same at all levels.

Verify encoding: sure, just do it.

Add 4k padding block.  Makes adding additional comments faster wrt. file I/O.

Add seek table (if possible): makes seeking within track more precise, faster

Use Ogg as a transport layer (*.ogg):  no need.

Title: Re: Flac encoding
Post by: WolfWalker on January 07, 2011, 08:06:26 pm

Thank You! I choose to use setting 0 and padding.