WMA9 lossless files a few ?'s
Reply #1 – 2005-08-10 06:43:57
Have a look at this thread . The lifetime of burned optical media is usually low. I believe your best bet is to back up on an offline hard drive. This is also cheaper per GB until the blu-ray media comes out (don't know their prices). Here is another related thread . During burning the files might be corrupted in rare cases due to a media or memory problem. Moreover all optical media get corrupted within a few years. For that purpose you might want to use PAR2 recovery files. Read about PAR here . I don't know how an optical media usually goes bad (i.e. entirely or file by file). But I think when it does PARing would still rarely help. Here's another related thread . There's also a dead CD thread here . Yes, because you have the lossless originals. Have a look at the lossless codec comparison . I think Wavpack and FLAC are regarded as the top contenders here. All lossless encoders are lossless so the result is bit identical to the original no matter which one you choose. The difference is all in the efficiency of the algorithm (i.e. new file size), what platforms it is supported, etc. Using WMP as your ripping software, you might incur loss due to ripping errors causing pops and clicks -- because it is not as good a ripper as EAC, CDex, cdparanoia, etc. There are tons of software to convert any format to another. Since you have it in lossless you can easily convert to another lossless format (with no loss) or into a lossy format (like mp3) as if it were ripped from the original CD.