Tips for a Personal Music Archive

[Mike Lovell]

Nicholas Leippe wrote:
> I have my own custom script for ripping & encoding.
> I rip each cd twice, once each from two different drives, and compare them.
> I have calculated the offsets of each drive and use the -O flag on cdparanoia.
> Since I have two drives, and two cpus, I wrote it to do all five tasks at once 
> in a pipeline fashion--2 ripping, 1 diffing, and 2 encoding simultaneously.
I must say I think that is the most through audio ripping I have ever
heard of anyone doing. Can I ask why you do this for ripping your CDs?
Is it just to make sure you get an exact copy? Is there a benefit in the
quality of the audio? I am impressed. But still wondering why.