Ripping as lossless from now on Nov26 '06
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# (2 of 2): Matthom
17 hours, 17 minutes after the fact. (Mon 27 Nov 2006, 7:40 AM CST)
Ssp, thanks for the clarification on the varying bitrates, and mentioning that lossless is still compressed. Makes sense...
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I think for all future CD's, I will rip them in as lossless, meaning they are not compressed at all.
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# (1 of 2): Ssp » earthlingsoft.net/ssp/blog
13 hours, 44 minutes after the fact. (Mon 27 Nov 2006, 4:08 AM CST)
In principle I agree on your assessment of the space/quality tradeoff. However, you have to keep in mind things like iPods where using the lossless format reduces the fun of it. The same goes for not arbitrarily extandable disk space as you have in laptops where the larger size makes a difference.
The varying bi trates are due to different songs allowing different levels of compression. Those lossless algorithms work better on some songs than they do on others (just as normal file compression works better on certain file types). Also, you say that in the Lossless format music isn't compressed. That's not true, it's just losslessly compressed (as in PNG vs JPEG files) – perhaps that's why the different bitrates irritate you.