I am fairly new to the forum. I had previously backed up all my CD's to ISO with Nero. Reading the discussions, everyone seems to be using cue sheets and WAV or lossless compression. can someone give me the pros & cons of each method. Should I re-rip?

Lossless compression is your best choice. It is versatile and save space. There is no reason to choose another method.

You may as well read this thread:

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....showtopic=47612

ISO images as backups aren't a very good idea, they take up lots of space, no tags, playback could require a drive emulator (daemon tools, virtual clonedrive), and the images are most likely made without read offset correction.

It depends on what you plan to use your backups for.

The advantage of ISOs:
Ready to be instantly reburned by every available burning-app.

The disadvantages of ISOs:
- require much space
- cannot be instantly transcoded
- cannot be instantly listened to except with additional virtual-CDROM drivers
- does not save any metadata


If you are ONLY planning to use the backups for reburning, and space is not an issue, then ISOs are a good choice. In any other case, cuesheets and lossless compression is a better choice.

What about read errors? Nero cannot securely rip.

Interesting point - didnt think of that.

er.. yeah, how could I miss that?

Thank you for your info!