Making a backup of my CD's

[Prophet]

I have several CD's which are either very old or are no longer in production.

If I want to make backups of these is there a recommended method and CD make to use of will any half decent CD do?

 

[CR4IG]

I have several CD's which are either very old or are no longer in production.

If I want to make backups of these is there a recommended method and CD make to use of will any half decent CD do?

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[Prophet]

Great, thanks

 

[Meatball]

Rip the CD tracks using EAC to WAV files. Back these files up accordingly or burn them to a CD-R

 

[jbloggs]

Best make of CD-Rs would be either from Verbatim or Taiyo Yuden...

 

[probedb]

Back them up to a HDD as well. In my experience CD-Rs don't last very long. Also burn them at a slow speed.

 

[Prophet]

I have all my albums ripped to MP3's but since upgrading my system they don't sound as good as the CD's which is why I want to make copies to play.

Would a direct slow speed copy using a standard disk-to-disk copying program not work just as good as ripping to wav or am I missing something?

 

[Deleted member 651465]

I have all my albums ripped to MP3's but since upgrading my system they don't sound as good as the CD's which is why I want to make copies to play.

Would a direct slow speed copy using a standard disk-to-disk copying program not work just as good as ripping to wav or am I missing something?

Yes, but then you still have to rip them again if you want to put them on the computer, in the lossless format.