Music Rerip Project
I noticed that a few of my tracks sound kind of low resolution when I’m listening to music on my wonderful Koss headphones at work or my new Sony DJ headphones. Erica, a bit of an audiophile, listened to my Digeum mixes and asked me why I insisted on ripping everything at a low resolution (Since 1998, I’ve been ripping everything at 128 kbps). She’s right.
With higher resolution sound files, my mixes will sound so much better and, if at some point I plug my stuff into an honest-to-goodness sound system with actual dancers, I’m going to not want to have my stuff sound farty. Ripping at a low resolution and listening on an iPod is okay. But, my computer has more than 200 GB of free space now. I might as well upgrade my MP3 collection (especially since, as I’ve recently discovered, my eMusic downloads are all 192 kbps VBR).
So, now to dig all the dusties out of the closet and find all those compilations over the years and rerip everything. I think 256 kbps is a little bit of overkill, so I’ll import everything from now on at 192 kbps VBR MP3s. My next Digeum Mix Session will be ripped to 160 kbps VBR. I think you’ll enjoy the difference.
And now to find all those thousands of CDs. I really should organize them better. Like, I dunno, in one location? <gasp /> Imagine!
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