Set iTunes to Lossless ripping and set the Error Correction mode to On when ripping. Played back through an excellent DAC with strong jitter reduction, this will yield results comparable to straight from the CD, IME.

Dave

There's some further discussions of that, I think in the Computer Audio subsection, dig in there for a little bit.

I would just add: if you get rid of the CD's, and your hard drive fails or gets wiped (and that happens!), you lose all your music. So make sure you have redundant backups if you sell the CD's.

It should also be mention that besides a hard drive crash causing you to lose your collection selling the CD and continuing to listen to the music ripped from them is morally wrong, and at best legally questionable. Someone will buy the used CD's and there is a good possibility that is taking a sale away from the artist, hence income. A user has every right to rip music that he OWNS and use it as he sees fit. When selling the CD that right of use goes to the new owner. It's stealing, plain and simple. Some might find a way to justify it by saying CD's are too expensive or whatever but at the core all of those arguments are excuses. Put yourself in the shoes of the artist and think about it. IT IS STEALING as much as if you would have down loaded an illegal MP3. The only difference is the fidelity is better.

Morally wrong...

Legally questionable...

good possibility...

Hmmm...

RG

Let's not get too uptight about this- back in the day many people "ripped" lps to tapes- maybe they sold them too. It's a lot of work to rip all those CDs and nothing at like getting them as free mp3s of the net.

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Let's not get too uptight about this- back in the day many people "ripped" lps to tapes- maybe they sold them too. It's a lot of work to rip all those CDs and nothing at like getting them as free mp3s of the net.

Doug-

I'm not so worried about the loss of revenue to major bands and big labels as I am the effect on up-and-coming artists on indie labels. Those folks need every penny just to stay in business and put food on the artist's table.

It takes approximately 5-7 minutes to rip a CD so it's a lot quicker than it was to properly record an LP to Tape which included an initial listen to properly set recording levels. That means that someone can make a copy of a CD in about 6% of the time that it takes to make a copy from an LP. That kind of efficiency has to increase the opportunity for abuse. I've said my piece, it is wrong. However, I'm not going to harp on the subject endlessly and be a pain in everyone's ass.

beeteem 00-

I'm glad to hear that my posts have made examine the ethics of the matter a little more closely. If only ALL record labels were offering their catalog as CD resolution downloads or better we probably wouldn't be faced with such ethical dilemmas. Those better downloads would reduce their costs (hence potentially increasing their profit), be quicker for consumers (hence increasing impulse purchases), and be better for the environment. They are being awfully slow when it comes to catching up to what their customers want.

I won't depend on the RIAA to use logic on who they choose to litigate against. They have a habit of making those decisions in a rather haphazard manner from all appearances and for whatever reason they always seem to use the big hammer. That having been said the chances that you would end up being one of their victims is rather small just because of the percentages.