Creating a Music Archive

[Agons]

Here is the problem, last Christmas my mom wanted to get my dad a 400 CD, CD changer to play all his music on. Well lets just say he would have needed a few of those. We got more CD's then any CD player could possibly hold. I want to make a HTPC for all the music we have and maybe all our movies(depending on money for extra hard drives) My problem is i want it to be the best quality possible, so i was assuming some kind of loss less format. But I do not know which. Also would it be better if i made .iso files of all the CD's instead and played them through vlc or something? I could really use a tip from someone that has done this kinda thing before.

Thanks for taking the time to read and help!

[Aphexx]

my preference is for Flac rather than Alac lossless files but if your family has a lot of apple products then you might want Alac instead (Alac is commonly know as apple lossless)

I also downloaded media monkey to tag my files here's a vid on it

http://twit.tv/show/know-how/27http://twit.tv/show/know-how/27

as for ripping a thousand CD's.... that sounds as fun as working an 18 hour shift for foxconn

[Agons]

my preference is for Flac rather than Alac lossless files but if your family has a lot of apple products then you might want Alac instead (Alac is commonly know as apple lossless)

I also downloaded media monkey to tag my files here's a vid on it

http://twit.tv/show/know-how/27http://twit.tv/show/know-how/27

as for ripping a thousand CD's.... that sounds as fun as working an 18 hour shift for foxconn

Nothing apple all windows and Linux; also you link does not seem to work, is it on you tube?

[Aphexx]

my preference is for Flac rather than Alac lossless files but if your family has a lot of apple products then you might want Alac instead (Alac is commonly know as apple lossless)

I also downloaded media monkey to tag my files here's a vid on it

http://twit.tv/show/know-how/27http://twit.tv/show/know-how/27

as for ripping a thousand CD's.... that sounds as fun as working an 18 hour shift for foxconn

go all flac then. your cd ripper should "should" embed the tags for you but the file taggers will also add the album art without you having to break out the scanner

[Agons]

my preference is for Flac rather than Alac lossless files but if your family has a lot of apple products then you might want Alac instead (Alac is commonly know as apple lossless)

I also downloaded media monkey to tag my files here's a vid on it

http://twit.tv/show/know-how/27http://twit.tv/show/know-how/27

as for ripping a thousand CD's.... that sounds as fun as working an 18 hour shift for foxconn

Sweet thanks, its going to be a long project haha.