CD ripping

dbpoweramp can help guarantee 100% accurate rip if possible.

Poor quality or dirty CDs will result in taking longer to rip but if accurate rip is on the results will be the same each time.

It should not matter in the end for rip quality (as opposed to possibly playing live) but you could rip before and then after treatment to see if CD rips faster or not. If treatment helps rip will occur faster. If not the same. Or possibly longer if it actually hurts.

But you would know for sure if you care.

Accurate rip can be turned on or off to enable rips of defective CDs if needed.

No need to re-rip probably if the lossless variant of the format has been used and the format works for all your devices needed.

Also if you do need other formats of existing lossless files you could look at using a batch conversion program to create the files in an alternate format. that would be much faster than re-ripping

@geoffkait ...

The Lost Chord...

Thanks for the reminder.

Update.

looks like considerable number of my files, on itunes, are AAC @ 128 and AAC @ 256.