It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/nlj1978 on 2024-06-06 02:51:04.

While spring cleaning I stumbled across a long forgotten CD collection. Rummaging through it nostalgia is kicking hard. So of course I'm going to have to rip it all so I can enjoy.

Have ~200 CDs I've located to rip. Also have a previous stash of ripped CDs on one of my home computers

Googling a bit I'm reading about FLAC files being best to get the best rip and gather the music information. Exact Audio Copy along with a few others get mentioned alot for ripping.

What's the most user friendly and effective ripping software for someone new to this? Doesn't have to be freeware, will pay for solid software.

Is the FLAC file format relatively usable? For example I have a networked Onkyo receiver, would it be able to play those files from the network?