street_samurai Wrote: "Personally, if I was in your position (having ripped to MP3 my whole collection and re-tagged everything) then I'd seriously considier doing some listening tests to make sure all the work of re-ripping is worth it. Several blind tests have found that Lame MP3s with an alt.preset setting can not be differentiated from the original (or FLAC). If it doesn't sound better to you then its not worth it. A decent stereo probably less to do with it than how good your ears are... and clearly thats a personal choice.
Having said that, I also use FLAC as I don't want to rip my CDs ever again... and space is cheap. For future reference (especially if ripping straight to Mp3), you're better off editing your tags in EAC before you rip. Then if you need to re-rip again in the future, EAC will remember the updated tags for that CD." >> When I first started ripping my collection, I was using the Creative software that came with my soundcard. It was Creative PlayCentre, or something. I got through well over half my CDs with this software before being shown the light, and then using EAC. Editing tags was, of course, possible with PlayCentre just as it is with EAC. But at the same time a great many tags got through the net with both PlayCentre and EAC. The main problem, I guess, is that I wasn't organised before I started. So where a lot of music was tagged as "General Alternative" or whatever, I hadn't thought of a decent system to categorise things in the first place. Added to the fact that I've rebuilt my PC at least once (possibly twice) since I began the ripping process and so EAC or PlayCentre "memory" will probably be lost... The major problem now is to try and rationalise all the genre tags. All other tags are fine - I sometimes spot the odd error which I can easily fix, but I would love to be able to heavily rely on genre tags. As an example, I've got various Coldplay albums and also lots of different Coldplay tracks from compilation albums. Currently Coldplay are categorised in a number of different genres (Alternative, Pop, General Alternative, Indie etc etc). It's a real pain to try and get everything consistent. Anyway. Thanks for the idea about the listening test. That's well worth doing, so I'll give it a go before I re-rip anything... _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
