I ripped everything to FLAC to avoid the repeating scenario where I ripped everything to low bitrate mp3 in the early 2000s and had to rip/download everything again as stuff improved.
Now I know I have the lossless files so converting to mp3, etc is just a matter of a big batch conversion which doesn't need any input.
Storage is cheap nowadays.
I ripped everything to FLAC to avoid the repeating scenario where I ripped everything to low bitrate mp3 in the early 2000s and had to rip/download everything again as stuff improved.
Now I know I have the lossless files so converting to mp3, etc is just a matter of a big batch conversion which doesn't need any input.