[peel] compress audio

[rockerq@...]

For true lossless compression either backup as WAV or AIF (Hard drive space 
is currently cheaper than it's ever been!) - or save some discspace by using 
FLAC ( I guess a disadvantage is that you can't then burn the files direct to 
audio CD without first cobverting to Wav or AIF)

To save more discspace use mp3 @ 320kbps - although this does lose data, the 
results are arguably hard to distinguish aurally from the original.

Cheers!

Rocker

PS All you people making Peel shows available to download - thanks! - I would 
always rather spend longer on the download if I get a higher quality file out 
of it!






> <<Hi All
> 
>   I appreciate that about a month there was a discussion about the best way 
> to compress audio.
> 
> 
>  Well this has turned into a real issue for me because recently a 500gb hard 
> drive died on me taking with it 5years worth of music saved to wav format. 
> Fortunately I do have copies on cd for normal playing. It now seems a good 
> idea to back up my back up by having a compressed version for all my audio 
> collection going back over 30years (since I was a teen)
> 
>   Can any one suggest a format that would allow for lossless compression? 
> Can anyone suggest a good program that can do this? I have been browsing 
> www.download.www and there does appear to be a number of options but if I am going 
> to start backing up my back up for the last 30years I would appreciate any 
> thoughts from others who have been doing the same thing :) Gordon>>