[Empeg-general] Re: Re-rip my cd's ... info needed ... loss-less comp?

[Tony Fabris]

And let me just re-defend my original statement: It might be a moot point for him if 50% compression doesn't solve his storage problem.

If he doesn't have enough hard disk space to store these lossless files permanently, then he'll have to offload them onto tape or CD-R. And then his re-encoding pass will involve the hassle of restoring all of these files. If they happen to be on CD-R, the restoration will be nearly as much hassle as swapping the original CDs in. And if he has them archived to tape, then there's the hassle factor of having to update the tape archive every time he adds a new disk to his collection.

So let's settle this: how many CDs are in the collection in question?