Instead or arguing if we are going to use auto rescan or not, maybe we
should post our current ripping processes when introducing new music to
our library with current 7.5 SBS functionality. That way Logitech can do
an analysis and see what's needed, maybe auto scan would work but maybe
they also need to do other things to make it usable.
My typical process looks like this (the exact order of the steps varies
from time to time):
1. RIP to FLAC using EAC on a Windows laptop to the local disk or
recently I've been ripping using Vortexbox on a laptop directly to the
NAS
2. Copy the files to the NAS where I have my SBS music
3. Open the files in foobar or mp3tag and adjust GENRE tags, set
COMPILATION if it's a compilation
4. Open the files in Musicbrainz picard and add musicbrainz id's
5. Apply replay gain tags using foobar or the command line tool which
have been seen on these forum.
6. Find some album art using Google and save it as a cover.jpg file
7. Open Mp3Tag and embed the album art into the FLAC files
8. Tell SBS to do a full rescan, I never do an new/changed rescan today
because I don't trust it, I've had too many issues where it has left
some old data in the database which isn't part of the tags any more. In
the fairly small library I have it's ok to do a full rescan, usually
takes less than 15 minutes.
As you can see, the process above isn't really optimized and it's quite
unstructured, this is intentional since I often do the step in different
orders. It's hard to remember the exact order when you more or less have
to use different programs for each steps. Another thing to note is that
the files are placed at the final location fairly early in the process
(step 1 or 2) and it happens quite a lot afterwards, so it's extremely
important that the auto scan functionality is able to handle these
changes correctly.
I've been planning to start using puddletag which I think should solve
most of the things but I haven't gotten much new locally stored music
since I got my Spotify Premium account.
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