All the media players I use allow me to pull up any album I wish by searching. Regarding metadata, I believe metadata is highly overrated. WAV files will likely be around for good. You may have trouble finding players that play Apple Lossless. These proprietary codecs sometimes go to the wayside. There are two problems with Apple Lossless.ġ) Only a limited number of media playing software can decode Apple lossless and,Ģ) While Apple is wildly popular now, in 10-20 years who knows how relevant they will be. Should I look at going with a different format or just stick with the 256 or 320kbps MP3's? Can a CD be saved as an HD track or is that just for audio DVDs? In all honesty I'm looking to just re-rip my CDs in the best way I can so I can back them up and never have to go through this whole process again. I've read a few older tests between the different bitrate's and they seem to say that the mp3 256kbps and 320kbps pretty much match that of the recorded CD. I see there's AIFF, AAC, Flac, SACD and a few others in 24/44.1, 24/48, 24/96,16/44.1, then see some written as 88/24, 96/24 but it's mostly Greek to me.

Beyond the mp3 128,196,256,320kbps format I really don't know much about the different types of formats out there. I'm looking to re-rip my CD's onto my computer and I'm looking to try and get the best quality I can from them so they sound better when played on my 5.1 home theater system then the 128bit mp3 version's I play on my computer.

I'm not really sure if this is the correct place for this type of question or not, I really could not find much on.

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