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Converting cd's to high resolution audio

All my music is on cd's and my reading tells me that the cd itself has a limited shelf life and will degrade over time.
Any recommendations about converting my cd's to FLAC or some type of high quality music files. Not looking for
compressed files.
I see products such as the Blue Sound Music Vault and a Sony High Resolution Music Player.
Does anybody have any thoughts about how to accomplish this goal?

Thank you. 
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dweller
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Personally, I wouldn't undergo such a massive project (converting CDs to files) unless the end-product was being saved to the cloud.
Might consider saving to hard drives but would have triple-redundancy and an off-site location (safe deposit box?) for safe keeping.
BTW, I've heard there are services that will do the conversion for you if you've got the dough...
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I can’t think of ANY CD’s that have become unplayable (collecting since 1985). I do have a few DVDs that have gone bad or bad from the get-go (complete series of M*A*S*H had a few drop outs as did the Robo-Cop set).
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Robert Harley did a piece about copying CDs and why they sounded better. Had something to do with taming jitter embedded in the source data stream. This results in better sounding music or letting the music that's already there come to the fore.
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@elizabeth - You're right, keep it close to your vest. I always chuckle when some noob asks "what is the be version of this-or-that record?". Translation: "Tell me the best recording so I don't have to buy them all like you dummies did.".
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