Like the dimwit I am I didn't back up my recently defunct Mp3 drive. I'm now going to commit my CD collection to hard drive (once more).
Which format and burner shall I use for this - my first instinct was to go with Media player 10 at 192kps MP3, but just read some spiel about how lossless WMA is better quality per meg.
Please advise guys.
Ta, MB.


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WMP maybe very noob freindly and what you are used to, but it's truly terrible for ripping CD's. Stop using it! Forget WMA, get EAC (free) and use the LAME MP3 encoder at 320. If you have the space, rip to FLAC (better than lossless WMA due to its support for gapless, but will sound the same). Lossless is the future, all music will be sold online as lossless one day. We will laugh at MP3 etc soon enough, it's destined for ringtones only.
), then WMA lossless is the best option - because WMP cant read FLAC tags and thus cant add FLAC files to your library (will play them though with the right codec installed). Of course you could switch to a decent player, like Foobar.
) and support was the major issue as I want something I can be sure will play on any PMP now or in the future. Unfortunately that meant mp3 was the only option.
