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Suggested workflow single-file CD archival?
This hint is so closely related and also judging by some of the comments I've seen so far, I thought I'd ask something I've been grappling with for a while.
Suggested workflow single-file CD archival?
To repeat myself, what is wrong - for archival purposes - with a zip file?
Suggested workflow single-file CD archival?
There is nothing wrong with it, the only real "problem" is that you get a lousy compression ratio. FLAC (and Apple Lossless) give you about a 50% reduction in file size while being lossless (you can regenerate a bit for bit replica of the source WAVE file from the FLAC file).
Suggested workflow single-file CD archival?
To echo the previous responders comments, a ZIP file doesn't compress audio data nearly as well as FLAC. ZIP is a general purpose compression algorithm, while FLAC and others are specifically tooled to take advantage of the typical patterns in audio, resulting in higher compression ratios at the expense of being limited to a specific type of data.
Suggested workflow single-file CD archival?
I use cdparanoia and cdrdao (from DarwinPorts or Fink) to duplicate my audio CD's. It doesn't offer any compression, but it does make a nearly identical copy.
script cdrdao_read
Script cdrdao_write
Note: You may need to create ${HOME}/.cddb if it doesn't exist. Only tested on Tiger OS X 10.4.x
Suggested workflow single-file CD archival?
Crap, the "&&" should be "&& <backslash symbol here>". The backslash got stripped out of the html. Sorry
Suggested workflow single-file CD archival?
Crappy, crap. I should have given basic instructions for use. At a termnal prompt type "bash ./cdradao_read MyCDName" (without the quotes) to read a CD.
Suggested workflow single-file CD archival?
Unfortunately for my needs (desires) I have not found a native MacOS X option for archiving my audio CDs to FLAC. All the tools are available, but they're all separate. What I've used is a program on Windows called CDEX. It does the CDDB lookup (and allows me to edit the song titles, etc. if necessary), it does the ripping and (with flac.exe installed as an external encoder, which CDEX supports directly) it does the encoding. What I'm left with is a folder of /artist_name/album_name/ with each track listed in order, in FLAC format and having the ID3 tags (or whatever tag format FLAC uses) filled in with the relevant information. |
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