Wacky Audio Process 11May18

For some time about five years ago I bought music from Amazon and Apple and loaded my library withy good bit rate MP3s and M4As files. I am re-ripping my 550 disc CD library to .flac and it makes sense to cut these old MP3s/M4As to .flac as well. So, now as I near completion of the re-rip of my CD library I am actually burning new CDs to rip from the rights to the albums I bought from the A companies. What a pain to need to burn CD-Rs and then rip them to .flac but I couldn't find alternative, more direct, schemes to get lossless files. I am also managing deletion of all old .mp3s in the process. So... I have a lot of queues of work and discs and multiple disc drives spinning. I hope I keep it all straight!

Here' an update... I finished ripping my entire catalog to .flac!! Whew. I even ripped all the SACDs to DSD/DSF24 format and .flac when CD Audio was available on the discs... I even sold the lot of 17 discs on eBay for $145! Though DSD is an issue in that I can't replay DSD on my my big Schitt system DAC won't do DSD - strangely just my mobile system handles them. Too, there were a couple dozen albums I couldn't retrieve from Amazon - they remain archived in .m4a/.mp4 in a decent variable bitrate but compressed format... Apple was more friendly.