I've been getting about .3-.4 compression. It depends on the music I guess. But I've got a moving box full of CDs that I don't have to touch anymore. I got a couple of 120 gig drives at Fry's for about $90/ea. They don't have to be fast ATA133 or have big caches, so I just got the biggest cheapest drives I could afford. I started out doing it with just the CDs I liked the most for "archival" purposes. One's I knew would be the first to get moved to ogg or something better. Then after the drive upgrade I did the rest.

Right now I've got 2517 tracks in 68 Gigs ... That's about 37 tracks a Gig. I think that works out to about 27 megs per track.

If I inherit a closet full of CDs from someone, flac may be insufficient for all of them, but as it is, when ogg becomes a reality for my car half of my total song collection currently on my empeg gets moved over to ogg automatically, with no tag mucking. The other half will probably stay as mp3's because I don't have the CDs for them yet.

As for my home player ... I don't have to hear one single bit of compression as of right now for all my flac'ed files.

Greg