It is officially 56 years since I took my very first breath
@hjalm Happy Birthday! Wishing you a wonderful day however you choose to celebrate it. You’re exactly seven months ahead of me.
@hjalm Happy birthday! I have been about to be embarking on "The Great Digitization Project" for about six months now, fully intending to re-rip my CDs as FLAC and digitize my DVDs, store them on a new NAS I have no idea how to use, and then try to figure out how to stream them with Vox and Jellyfin, neither of which I have any idea of how to use. It's been...pretty slow-going. So yeah, here's to your re-ripping success!
@the So. I am re-ripping audio CDs twice. Once to WAV, via Exact Audio Copy on Windows. Serving via Plex. Doing my best to capture Enhanced CD content and DVD content, also serving via Plex. The Enhanced CD content is Lo-Fi and messy. Also ripping CDs into Apple Music a second time, replacing MP3 files at various bitrates with Apple Lossless. Ripping DVDs and Blu-Ray via same Windows workstation, using MakeMKV and serving MKV files via Plex. I haven't decided on whether or not I'm going to compress to MP4 for Apple Home Sharing. I'm really concerned Apple's Home Sharing is a product nearing end-of-life, hence the effort on the Plex side. Consumption is via Apple TVs and 5.1 capable receivers.
@JohnPhilpin I feel like it's a modest luxury now that I have the disk space to go lossless. But yeah, one has to really want it.
@UndamnedOne I only just learned about Jellyfin, or I might have chosen it over Plex. The functionality looks great! Once I've finished ingesting the majority of the physical media I'm hopeful I can scale down from the current elderly XEON mid-tower to a Raspberry Pi or similar class of device. I'm on the fence about how hard to try to capture Vinyl or Casette, because there's stuff I love that I haven't found other ways. Probably no one I know cares as much as me, but I want to see how well it can be done.
@hjalm Thanks. That sounds like a great setup!
I’m probably not the best person to give you a review of abcde. We’re not audiophiles. The music is a reminder of concerts primarily. (Our playback equipment is basic: either the Raspberry Pi or iPhones to small speakers.) So for us, it does the job. Whether you find the audio fidelity of high enough quality is hard to predict but it’s free to try!