Tips on starting a new digital music library

[green plan]

and yes it is absolute hell to convert all these records. I've been doing some crazy organization bullshit too. Of the 10 x 12"s i pull each day I am allowed to keep one in the house, the rest go in to the tupperware bins to be sealed and stored. So ultimately in the end I'll have about 1500 of my favorite records in the house to use as I see fit. Everything else will be on the storage devices on the home network and the vinyl version will be stored in these custom tupperware bins I've made to try and help preserve them from heat and possibly being damaged.

i've realized I have a sickness lol

Organisational win.

[Alty]

It's been beaten to death around the internet, but someone please answer this question: how can a FLAC file be uncompressed and also have a smaller file size than a WAV file? By any measure of common sense, the concept is totally bullshit.

You could always read about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lossless_data_compression

I'm sure you use lossless compression a lot. e.g. zip/rar files and many image formats.

Of the top of my head, imagine you have a file made up of bits like this:

111111111111111111111111111111111111110000000000000000000000000.

How about you compress this to some kind of format e.g:

11111111 00100110 111111110 00011001

where 11111111 denotes a series of 1s, 11111110 denotes a series of 0s, 00100110 represents the number 38 (the number of 1s) and 00011001 represents the number 25 (the number of 0s).

tada! you have just represented a file taking up 63 bits in a file taking up 32 bits without losing any information.

Obviously proper compression algorithms are much more clever than this