<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ff4042a5-e5bb-4dff-951f-4f28f2ad26d8/7AD4BCFA-B6D4-43BC-93D4-E84DC28B9975/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://lifehacker.com/5344531/the-definitive-guide-to-backing-up-and-ditching-your-discs" href="http://lifehacker.com/5344531/the-definitive-guide-to-backing-up-and-ditching-your-discs" style="font-size: 11px;">lifehacker.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lifehacker.com/5344531/the-definitive-guide-to-backing-up-and-ditching-your-discs"><H1><A class="top" href="http://lifehacker.com/5344531/the-definitive-guide-to-backing-up-and-ditching-your-discs">The Definitive Guide to Backing Up and Ditching Your Discs</A></H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lifehacker.com/5344531/the-definitive-guide-to-backing-up-and-ditching-your-discs"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/lifehacker.com/img/9524581D-E90B-41B2-B391-73E76BFF2D10" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lifehacker.com/5344531/the-definitive-guide-to-backing-up-and-ditching-your-discs">Hard drives are cheap; here are our recommended methods of saving, selling, and trading your CDs, DVDs, and video games.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lifehacker.com/5344531/the-definitive-guide-to-backing-up-and-ditching-your-discs"><P>What format should you back up to? We can't tell the future, nor do we know how much of an audiophile you are. The safest bet is to go with a <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lossless">lossless compression method</A>, which doesn't compress audio information for file size, and so has a better likelihood of being rescued and re-converted if a new format takes over from MP3. Both iTunes and Windows Media Player offer their own lossless formats to convert to in their settings.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lifehacker.com/5344531/the-definitive-guide-to-backing-up-and-ditching-your-discs"><P>The free, open-source alternative is to convert to <A href="http://flac.sourceforge.net/">FLAC</A>, which, while popular among serious music fans and the open-source community, isn't quite a readily-playable format on MP3 players and devices. You can convert audio CD tracks to FLAC, or most any other audio format, <A href="http://www.webforth.com/2007/05/ripping-audio-cds-to-mp3-with-vlc">using the free VLC Media Player</A>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lifehacker.com/5344531/the-definitive-guide-to-backing-up-and-ditching-your-discs"><H3>DVDs</H3></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/7AD4BCFA-B6D4-43BC-93D4-E84DC28B9975/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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