Jordan Gunderson wrote:
Esteemed Plug members,
After much procrastination and many damaged CDs, I'm ready to start
archiving data from my music CDs.
I know I should save to FLAC files first, but that's about all I know,
so I'm looking for any tips & resources about the best way to create and
consume a personal music archive. What can you suggest?
Thanks in advance!
Jordy
I use abcde to rip, and I usually just rip to ogg. But when the music
I'm ripping is dear to my heart, I go with flac. I transcode from flac
to ogg or mp3 as needed (e.g. for an mp3 player), but otherwise I just
deal with flac directly.
I sort my music as genre/artist/album/track#-title.ext but I try to keep
the genre list to a minimum. Things like synth, baroque, piano, choral,
stuff like that. For tagging modifications, I use Ex Falso when it does
what I need. I trust Ex Falso with my tags. When it's not quite
featureful enough, I go with EasyTAG, which I don't really trust with my
tags but I keep a close eye on it.
As for archival, I do keep my CDs of course, but I have had CDRs rot on
me and I have to wonder if pressed CDs are going to end up rotting too.
Maybe ripping is the more long-term solution (if you back up).
--
Hans Fugal ; http://hans.fugal.net
There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the
right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach
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