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Ripping to cue sheet vs. individual tracks?
I've been playing around with the [Cue Sheet Image] utility beta a bit without any issues, and it got me to wondering... why do people rip to cue sheet + wav (or other) vs. individual tracks? I understand that with a cue sheet you can then write the audio back to disc and have the disc recognized by AccurateRip, thereby creating (for all intents and purposes) an exact replica, but is there any other compelling reason to rip in this way? Especially if, as I would assume, most listen to their music on a computer or portable/network media player.
I'm curious to know about other people's ripping methodologies. At the moment I'm ripping to FLAC, checking and cleaning up tags, and then copying the files to two separate external drives as a backup. From here I then encode to WMA Lossless (for WMP and 2 Squeezebox Boom's), and then also finally to 128kbps AAC (for iPod's). This last set of files then gets moved to a file server on the network.
Now, if I was ripping to .cue/.wav I'd lose the ability to manually tag each individual track, or is there something else I'm missing? Is ripping to .cue/.wav purely and exclusively for backup/archival purposes?
I'd be interested to hear people's thoughts
Hoju
I'm curious to know about other people's ripping methodologies. At the moment I'm ripping to FLAC, checking and cleaning up tags, and then copying the files to two separate external drives as a backup. From here I then encode to WMA Lossless (for WMP and 2 Squeezebox Boom's), and then also finally to 128kbps AAC (for iPod's). This last set of files then gets moved to a file server on the network.
Now, if I was ripping to .cue/.wav I'd lose the ability to manually tag each individual track, or is there something else I'm missing? Is ripping to .cue/.wav purely and exclusively for backup/archival purposes?
I'd be interested to hear people's thoughts
Hoju
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