Yes, I’m thinking of re-doing my CD collection – but this time in Windows Media Audio Lossless.  The point being, WMA Lossless is archival quality – and that’s the reason for doing this project in the first place.  I can then use Plus! Audio Converter from the Microsoft Plus! Digital Media Edition to convert from WMA to MP3 “as needed.”  In fact, I could probably keep the entire collection in WMA Lossless and an entire collection high-quality MP3 to easily move to the iPod.  Again, the advantage of WMA Lossless being that its archival quality, so there’s nothing lost (the lossless in lossless) in the audio quality.

There’s a couple of other reasons for doing this, too.  I feel the data provided by AMG is far superior to that provided by freedb used by Exact Audio Copy.  To me, metadata is almost as important as the song itself and I’ve just not been happy with the data provided by freedb.  A second reason is the conversion is pretty straight forward with Windows Media Player – it just feels better.  The one thing I noticed with the converter, however, is that album art was lost.  I’m wondering if that means there’s some metadata that goes missing in the conversion?

Where to store all of this?  On a wonderful 300GB Maxtor One-Touch drive, of course!