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I'm not new to Linux. I ran it almost exclusively (I still had a Windows gaming box) from 1999 to 2005. Running Linux on a laptop in 2000 was interesting.
While Linux is still great for getting things done, it's fallen behind other OSes for day-to-day things. Things like ripping CDs.
As I mentioned yesterday, my first step is to get out of the Apple ecosystem. I cancelled my Apple Music subscription (for the 3rd time; I have very mixed feelings about streaming services), deleted all the music off my phone and Mac, and decided to re-rip my CDs.[1]
And got frustrated fairly quickly. While it's very easy to rip CDs, its harder to rip them well. Mp3, for many reasons, is a suboptimial digital music format. AAC is generally considered the best lossy format for a given bitrate. Ogg Vorbis is considered inferior to AAC but is freely available.
My first thought was to rip AAC. AAC has licensing issues -- most instructions involved using Wine to use Windows software to rip AAC. I could use my Mac to do the ripping, but I'm attempting to keep to my plan. So no Mac.
Next was Ogg Vorbis. OV's audio quality is considered bad. While I've not done a test myself, I'd rather not rip everything into a format that's not considered at least "good". I debated using FLAC, but FLAC takes up a lot of space and the first ripper I tried was really slow.
So I'll have to do more research tonight on what format to use and what ripper to use.
[1] Subscribing to Apple Music and other Apple music-related services messes with your music library. I highly recommend keeping your personal rips backed up somewhere safe.
While Linux is still great for getting things done, it's fallen behind other OSes for day-to-day things. Things like ripping CDs.
As I mentioned yesterday, my first step is to get out of the Apple ecosystem. I cancelled my Apple Music subscription (for the 3rd time; I have very mixed feelings about streaming services), deleted all the music off my phone and Mac, and decided to re-rip my CDs.[1]
And got frustrated fairly quickly. While it's very easy to rip CDs, its harder to rip them well. Mp3, for many reasons, is a suboptimial digital music format. AAC is generally considered the best lossy format for a given bitrate. Ogg Vorbis is considered inferior to AAC but is freely available.
My first thought was to rip AAC. AAC has licensing issues -- most instructions involved using Wine to use Windows software to rip AAC. I could use my Mac to do the ripping, but I'm attempting to keep to my plan. So no Mac.
Next was Ogg Vorbis. OV's audio quality is considered bad. While I've not done a test myself, I'd rather not rip everything into a format that's not considered at least "good". I debated using FLAC, but FLAC takes up a lot of space and the first ripper I tried was really slow.
So I'll have to do more research tonight on what format to use and what ripper to use.
[1] Subscribing to Apple Music and other Apple music-related services messes with your music library. I highly recommend keeping your personal rips backed up somewhere safe.
