Are there practical reasons to choose one option over another, apart from storage That leaves me with what option to go for in the Encoding section.

Have as default? re 'Defective by design' setting.what do you mean by 'non-standard' CDs? By 'problem CDs' I assume you mean audio CDs which may be in less than pristineĬondition and so are buggy in some way, play-wise? Any other settings in there which I should All the options in 'Accurate-rip' are ticked by default, it seems. I've set my option to 'Secure' as per your advice. You can read more about the specific settings for While 'Defective by Design' is mostly for non-standard or problem CDs that can't seem to rip successfully with secure ripping. 'Burst' is faster, but doesn't have error recovery, The best ripping method in most cases is 'Secure,' as it recovers errors and ensures accurate rips on most commercial CDs. The space savings are worth the longer ripping time. If space is a serious consideration for you, I'd recommend you rip one of your CDs at the default, check the file sizes, then rip again at higher compression and decide whether The file size a little, if that matters to you, but it doesn't change the quality of the rip at all. The default '5' setting is just a trade-off between compression and encoding speed.changing it might change Will take more processing time to produce slightly smaller files. All FLAC files contain identical audio data, but if you apply higher compression, the encoder It's not degrees of lossless, it's degrees of compression. You can read more about the specific settings for Secure ripping HERE. 'Burst' is faster, but doesn't have error recovery, while 'Defective by Design' is mostly for non-standard or problem CDs that can't seem to rip successfully with secure ripping.

If space is a serious consideration for you, I'd recommend you rip one of your CDs at the default, check the file sizes, then rip again at higher compression and decide whether the space savings are worth the longer ripping time. The default '5' setting is just a trade-off between compression and encoding speed.changing it might change the file size a little, if that matters to you, but it doesn't change the quality of the rip at all. All FLAC files contain identical audio data, but if you apply higher compression, the encoder will take more processing time to produce slightly smaller files.

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