More sage advice! Thanks very much. If only I'd had the patience to wait intil I was further along on the learning curve. I really did try to educate myself regarding file formats and tagging, but no doubt I dove in too soon and just started ripping like a wild-eyed Jack the Ripper. Live and learn, I guess.
I think things are going to be OK from here. This is the process I have settled on: Rip to flac with dBpoweramp, applying ReplayGain track and album tags as I rip. After my butt gets numb, I rescan my music files into Slim Server. When that is done I then back up to an external USB drive. One issue I'm still wrestling with is genre tags, but I figure I can always go back through and change those if I ever decide how I actually want to do them. Music is so hard to categorize anyway! What exactly is "pop" music when you get down to it? Anything that is popular? And there is so much crossover from one genre to another. For instance, are the Eagle now a country band? Are the Dixie Chicks rock, pop or country? ...Yikes, it's enough to give a neat-freak an ulcer! -- jdm56 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jdm56's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9919 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40080 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
