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What should I use - WMA or Mp3, when ripping?

Dec 26, 2004 6:09AM PST

I am in the process on ripping my cd collection to my hard drive but I am only halfway through I have already used 100gigs of space.

I am using the Windows Media Player, ripping to WMA Lossless as it rips cd's at 206 to 411 MB. There is also a choice of WMA variable bit rate (105 to 155 MB),WMA 86MB (192 kbps), or MP3 57MB (128 kbps)

I know the higher the MB the better the sound quality but will I ever notice the difference? Which sould I really be using?

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Just did one with CDEX and it was 47MB.
Dec 26, 2004 6:32AM PST

You must be doing something like lossless WMA or other. I just use CDEX and get about 10 to 14 CDs onto one MP3 CD for the car.

Very very odd to use WMP in my opinion... The digital rights management alone has me rarely try this software.

Bob

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What are digital rights?
Dec 26, 2004 6:41AM PST

What are "digital rights"? How would this affect whether or not one would use the software?

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Also known as DRM...
Dec 26, 2004 7:20AM PST
http://www.zachd.com/pss/pss.html#drm and the first question reveals just one reason I don't use WMP.

"Q: Why can I only play files I rip back on the computer I ripped them to, and not on another computer on the network (for example)?"

While some may note you can turn off DRM, I opt for the bigger step away from trouble and do not use WMP much at all.

Bob
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TRY OGG
Jan 7, 2005 4:54AM PST

OGG is open-sorce audio format, just Goggle OGG lots of things to try. John