Got a question.
I have about 7000 songs in 128Kbps CBR MP3 right now on my PC. I got an iPod last weekend, and I have Media Center 9. I am planning on reripping my collection from CD into VBR using alt-preset standard as recommended here. However, I have a large number of CDs and not a lot of free time to sit around babysitting the computer. So my question is this...could I rip into wave format, which I understand to be lossless (?), which takes pratically no time at all, then use MC9's built-in convertor to mass-convert to MP3 while I'm not around? Let me rephrase, I know I *can* do it this way, I messed around with MC9 enough to figure that much out, my question is will this affect the quality of the final product? Will it be worse than if I let it rip and encode at the same time? I wouldn't think it would, cause I have unchecked "Rip & encode simultaneously" which (coupled with the "delete temp wave file when done" option) makes me believe that this process rips to wave, then converts, which would be what I'm doing albeit slightly more staggered...
So will this affect quality? Thanks!
I have about 7000 songs in 128Kbps CBR MP3 right now on my PC. I got an iPod last weekend, and I have Media Center 9. I am planning on reripping my collection from CD into VBR using alt-preset standard as recommended here. However, I have a large number of CDs and not a lot of free time to sit around babysitting the computer. So my question is this...could I rip into wave format, which I understand to be lossless (?), which takes pratically no time at all, then use MC9's built-in convertor to mass-convert to MP3 while I'm not around? Let me rephrase, I know I *can* do it this way, I messed around with MC9 enough to figure that much out, my question is will this affect the quality of the final product? Will it be worse than if I let it rip and encode at the same time? I wouldn't think it would, cause I have unchecked "Rip & encode simultaneously" which (coupled with the "delete temp wave file when done" option) makes me believe that this process rips to wave, then converts, which would be what I'm doing albeit slightly more staggered...
So will this affect quality? Thanks!