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Since everyone was talking about how cheap hard drive space nower days is and why not going with 320kbit compression, I started about 3 weeks ago to re-rip all my SC disks. I have to say, I almost forgot how much of a pain that process is...
FreeDB queries, KJ Pro (with CDG Autoname) and KJ File Manager were my best friends along the way. The same process eight years ago without some of this tools took WAY longer!

Finally tried it out last night and I definitely do hear a difference to the old 128kb rips. So I'm really pleased for now.

Gonna need to take a few days break (I'm dreaming of disk-numbers right now ) and then start with my DK's, Pocket Songs... and so on, and so on... I'm on a mission.

Wow! Took me a couple of months working with a friend to get all of ours done 3 years ago. I found it easier to get a better sound card to upscale the output than increase the bitrate

Just got through ripping all mine 400+ cds, whew! I am tired now, too. I ripped all min at 320kb. Have lots of room and the higher quality rip will be worth it.

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Well, I have no day job. So that came in handy!
I did about 25 disks a day (!) average. You can imagine how fried my brain was at the end of each day... lmao

I did the same thing last year - for the same reasons. But I only did SC, DK, Chartbuster, and a one or two other manus. The rest I don't use enough to justify the time involved in re-ripping.

crowded bars + cheap microphones + people screaming along with you while you sing and you all think that the bit rate will make a huge difference in the karaoke experience????

Not likely in my opinion. I was at a show last night where the KJ is still using discs and a handful of tracks skipped so much that the singer had to choose a different song to sing.

clean rips are more important that an increase in bit rate, in my opinion. I'm sure that it wouldn't hurt but most karaoke customers wouldn't know the difference

Well I feel your pain, I just finished ripping all my disc for the first time over 600 in all. What a undertaking. Then I went and just bought 17 more disc's this weekend. Guess I just wont ever be done .

Well it depends on where you started. From 96 to 256? Huge difference. From 256 to 320? Not so much.

I believe quality music very much does make a difference in the experience. If it sounds better, people have a better time, less ear fatigue, etc. They may not know exactly why they like it better, but they do notice.

Well, 8 eight years ago I started to rip in 128kbit. A couple years back I moved to 192kbit. But most of my library is (was) in 128kb.
I just figured, I'm using a 2TB hard drive now with my new rackmount computer and have more than enough room (even with my filler tunes) and besides that not much else to do right now, so why not?

one of these days......... I'm just gonna take the top few hundred tunes that are on the top of my history list and redo just those discs.

I'm not interested in doing all my discs EVER again!!!!!

yeah, took me about 8 months to re-rip 960 discs, but soooo worth it. i actually find it much easier to mix the vocals into the music with the increased dynamic range.

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I'm with you Bruce. I'm too old to hear the difference in the highs anymore anyway, but a bad rip stands out like a sore thumb and I am constantly amazed when I visit shows in my area how tracks that get sung all the time never get re-ripped even though they are ridiculously bad, sometimes even to the point of being totally illegible.

You know, some of that bad sound quality could have come from a bad sound card in the computer. A good card can make a big difference. I noticed this a few years ago, when many of my songs sounded bad, even when ripped at a high bitrate. A new sound card fixed it. I had two laptops at the time, and one sounded good, and the other was horrible. I knew it had to be a sound card problem, since both were used on the same system with the same hard drive.

Those things are inexpensive - external sound cards I mean. I had the headphone port go on my bumper music lappy - wondered what the heck I was going to do - get another laptop? (still haven't ripped to ipod)...picked up a USB external sound card and the quality of the music actually improved a tad. (The lappy had a decent sound card in it already.)