Battleangel

I’ve begun to reencode some of the few actual audio CDs that I have in my collection. It appears that the Xing VBR encoding that I did years ago has got serious flaws. At least it’s fortunate that I chose VBR in a time when everyone was still scratching their heads wondering what VBR was. Back in those days, 128 kbps CBR was still hot. Seems like ages ago really. I only wish I would have stumbled upon an early build of LAME and EAC or just upped the average bitrate slightly. Or even made high bitrate CBRs. As it stands, I would estimate that average bitrate of my 1999 - 2001 encodings is 160 kbps.

Of course I cannot reencode the entire collection, so I’ll settle for the discs that I already have in my possession. This is the first step in the long process of checking and putting all of my CDR content on DVDR. Any day now, I will be transferring all those gigabytes to a hard disk and start to replace deprecated content and split it for DVD writing. And just hope I don’t screw it up too bad. Chances are I’ll miss a couple of fixes among tens of thousands of files …

Recent reencodes:

In a way this is a full circle. And back to my roots.