pc to laptop to ipod

[DaleFiorillo]

Greetings from longtime searcher first time poster.
After much reading it looks like I can do this with my
300 disc collection

1. rip the tracks from the cd's with my very powerful pc into flac files
onto its hard drive.

2. then, using MediaMonkey, import the flac files to my laptop
as vbrMP3's for organizing into playlist's for the Ipod.

3. the Ipod is a Classic, and only used as a storage unit, and player
for the home stereo. I would create playlists for a shuffle, which now
plays into my new suv.

Should I convert the flac files to mp3 on the pc, and then export
them to the laptop? Somewhere along the line the artist and track data
needs to be found and written.

I'm trying to avoid running the laptops harddrive for hundreds of hours.
Also the flac files will be copied to a remote drive for archiving.
Lastly, and sadly, is the fact that my stereo is very good, and the Ipods
phones are very good, my music is half mediocre bluegrass, and half classical.
I am 68, so my hearing is probably half mediocre, so what is a realistic
vbr? You better believe I'll follow your advice. Dale.

[Spoon]

Re: pc to laptop to ipod

You can do it (create flac and mp3) at the same time as ripping if you use the Multi-Encoder.