Prefab Audiophile Digital Music Library?

andrewsouthern · « **on:** 6 Apr 2006, 03:22 pm »

Does anyone out there sell high quality encoded music already in a harddrive & cataloged.

I have CD's etc. but it would be cool to have another person's music collection of great quality recordings. I wouldn't care if it was jazz, rock, acoustic etc. it would be fun to hear new music this way.

kfr01 · « **Reply #1 on:** 6 Apr 2006, 03:42 pm »

Quote from: andrewsouthern

Does anyone out there sell high quality encoded music already in a harddrive & cataloged.

Nope.

There are services that will rip your cd's for you, but since it will be a cold day in hell when the RIAA allows lossless non-drm music for sale en masse, that's about the best you can do.

Buying a HD full of music would be considered massive copyright infringement.

miklorsmith · « **Reply #2 on:** 6 Apr 2006, 03:46 pm »

Copyright shmoppyright.

I'll burn 400 gigs of flac for you for $50.

Hmmm. . .I can see where the RIAA is coming from.

andrewsouthern · « **Reply #3 on:** 6 Apr 2006, 04:18 pm »

yeah, I guess I meant in more of a audiophile-to-audiophile type deal than a get-sued-by-RIAA type deal.

Like you make a copy of the files onto a terabyte drive for yourself, but you let me rent it from you for life for $50.

Is flac better than WAV? I just want to design a great sounding digital music library. Starting with the content in the best form. Then good software (or hardward - Squeezebox?) to control the system. D>A, good amp, good wire, good speakers.

thoughts?

miklorsmith · « **Reply #4 on:** 6 Apr 2006, 05:10 pm »

Supposedly, .flac is equal to .wav in sound quality. But, .wav is the (most) native format on the CD and the first step in a burn. It's a separate step to encode to .flac or .wma or .mp3 or whatever.

I have external drives with .wav files and a complete copy of everything as .flac files that I use for streaming to the squeezebox. Given the tremendous amount of time it takes to rip a whole collection and the propensity for hard drives to fail, it is cheap insurance to have everything backed up.

R_burke · « **Reply #5 on:** 6 Apr 2006, 05:13 pm »

I copied this from another post in the Sports Bar entitled "Moron"

http://secure.adpay.com/ClickNBuy.aspx?pid=617934796E4277506F447270482B79527866344965513D3D&adid=DMN612241

The guy is selling an Ipod loaded with videos and music for about $175.00 above the cost of the Ipod. Of course he might be in jail by now, or at least the subject of a lawsuit.