Nah man. If you care about your CDs you should already have them ripped to flac format, so the disc rot can’t kill them. Convert to mp3 vbr0 for tossing them on a player or your phone. Listen with whatever ear buds you like.
It’s not like vinyl or casette tape, where the analog nature of the storage medium is going to effect the sound. CDs are pure digital, just a carrying case for the files on them.
Nah man. If you care about your CDs you should already have them ripped to flac format, so the disc rot can’t kill them. Convert to mp3 vbr0 for tossing them on a player or your phone. Listen with whatever ear buds you like.
It’s not like vinyl or casette tape, where the analog nature of the storage medium is going to effect the sound. CDs are pure digital, just a carrying case for the files on them.
Why mp3 vbr0 and not opus?
The only reason to use mp3 is if you want to play it on old devices. It’s much better to use opus on anything that supports it.
Yeah, that makes sense.
Thankfully, most things I have support opus, even a very old iPod, thanks to Rockbox.
Yeah, i like them converted to opus better. Guess the psychoacoustic compression does something.
That’s the first thing I did with all my Frank Zappa cds… converted them to digital and put the cds away so they wouldn’t end up scratched.
Or buy your music from a source that offers both. I have flacs from bandcamp, but also CDs from those same albums