On Fri, 2013-07-12 at 12:29 -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > But keep in mind that you don't have a "true" backup of those music > CDs unless you're encoding them in a lossless format such as flac. +1 Even if double-blind-tests should show that losses shouldn't be needed, the main argument is "just in case" ... your children of you children's children might have a better hearing, than humans have today. So again, backing up vs archiving.