Posted by <normanstrong on 09/28/05 14:48

"Joel" <joelx@usa.net> wrote in message
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> hurtdn@gmail.com wrote:
>
>>OK, I want to take my music CDs that I have purchased over the years
>>and put them on my computer's hard drive, so that I can burn CDs of
>>mixed songs -- one song from this CD, 2 songs from that CD, etc.
>
> NRen2k5's advice is good, but I just wanted to add that if you don't
> need to keep the files on your hard drive long term, there's no need
> to rip to MP3 or any compressed format. You can just rip the WAVs of
> the songs you want, and then burn a full quality audio CD mix of them,
> and then delete them. However, if you do want to keep them on your
> hard drive long term, variable bit rate MP3 is pretty much as good as
> it gets, particularly since the best encoder is free and open source,
> LAME.

Are variable bit rate mp3's as compatible with cheap CD players as CBR ones?

Norm

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