Oops, "gust Ji" was me spelling my name wrong and hitting the return by mistake just now..


Horses for courses...

Anything I've recorded, I'll keep as a WAV file, so I can burn a CD, edit/ remaster in the future should I feel the need. I'll usually keep it on CD as well, which has the advantage of being playable in a CD player, and serves as backup should the hard drive fail (and vice versa, no medium is truly permanent, though stone tablets come close)

I use MP3 for general backing up and portable music- not for sonic reasons, but it works with pretty much any portable device, and a lot of CD players will play MP3 files from a disc. My 4G MP3 player fits around 55 albums' worth. I notice the loss in quality if I plug into my hifi, but most of the time I'm either listening on tiny headphones or in the car. And a lot of my music has been digitised from a old tapes of old LPs which didn't sound that great.

Of course if I really like something I'll have the CD.