Avian’s Blog

Today I wanted to burn a CD which I could listen in my car. Since the CD player there supports MP3 format this shouldn't be that hard, right? I'll just copy the music I already have on my hard disk (and which I ripped from my CD collection) to a data CD and that's it.

Well, not really. On my Debian machine, all the music got ripped into Ogg Vorbis (since that was the default setting in Sound Juicer). On my PowerBook, iTunes ripped everything into AAC (again, the default setting). I'm sure that if I had a machine running Windows, everything would be in some Microsoft proprietary format.

I know, I know. I should have checked the settings before feeding my computers all my CDs. Still, it's frustrating that I have to go through all that again.

And of course, I didn't have any such problems with music that I downloaded from the net (like free tracks from Machinae Supremacy, don't get me wrong).