User: Josh Coalson

FLAC is usually better.

On: Linux-Based Audiophile CD Archival System

Shorten is getting a little old. Before you do a massive 300 gig collection you might want to look into FLAC. It's also open source and gets better compression (or faster, or sometimes both) than Shorten. The format also has a lot more features (integrated checksum, error recovery, streamable).

http://flac.sourceforge.net/