I have about 400 CD's that I'd like to put in a hard drive. I've been a pseudo audiophile for many years and been perfectly content with buying CDs and playing them the "conventional way". I'd like to rip all of them into a storage device and later on start acquiring the hardware to play them back through my amp and speakers. I'd like to know what format I should consider: FLAC or WAV or whatever. I do not own an MP3 player and have no plans to acquire one. I'd like to have lossless compression and maximum compatibility with whatever hardware is out there so I can eventually serve the music to whatever device has the DACs to feed the preamp (or amp,I don't know). I use Linux for everything I need but would consider buying an appliance to manage the music as long as it's not Windows.
I plan to use a CD ripping service and they ask for my choice of format to rip my music into - hence this question.
Thanks in advance for your consideration.
