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Old 11-19-2012, 10:03 AM   #43 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Kip1985 View Post
Well, for me, the advantages are simple: having all my albums on my PC. Now, I know I could just rip them, and keep the songs individually, but when I listen to a CD, I never skip songs, I always listen straight through. I compare it to movies: I don't watch movies and skip to the scenes I like, I watch the whole thing. Same with albums, even if I hate a particular song, I'll listen to it since it's part of the album... part of the experience. It's just a weird quirk that I have.
Well, you don't have to rip the whole thing to one file to be able to listen to it as if it were a CD. I mean, I listen to full albums all the time, but I still rip to different songs. The player I use (foobar) string them together seamlessly. Many other players do the same. When you have the different songs as files, you can do more than just play them individually. You can f.ex scrobble them to last.fm or rate them.

So, in other words, I can only see downsides to ripping it as one file when there are multiple tracks.
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