Raleigh, NC
Travis Kepley is a Senior Instructor at Red Hat where he helps employees, partners and customers understand how Open Source Software can create a better IT and business infrastructure. Travis started at Red Hat in January of 2008 as a Technical Support Engineer before becoming a Solutions Architect prior to moving to his current role. Travis graduated from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and now lives in Raleigh with his wife and dog. When not extolling the virtues of open source, Travis is found fishing as well as playing and recording music.
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I still buy most of my music from the record shop. Why? 1, money is going to local shops. 2, I can then rip it to whatever I want. 3, I have a physical copy in my closet for the inevitable failure to backup the night something crashes.
I've started ripping all my discs as flac for the same reasons you chose. Before this it was OGG, but the point remains the same. If I have a physical copy, I can then do what I want with it (well, not according to some in the RIAA, but I believe it constitutes fair use). Even if I have to wait because I have to special order it or whatever, it's much nicer to have it in hand. I hope we never get rid of physical media for this reason. Something about having the thing you bought in hand is much better than not. I wish more agreed with me.
Who knows, maybe eventually the industry will wise up and start releasing FLAC or ISO copies of digital media. Many media players can read in an ISO now (my PS3 Mediaserver can parse an ISO for DVDs and present it to my PS3 as an mp4 file :))
for the win.