Yeah, the term metadata was obscure to me when I started doing a lot of ripping. It's just the information about the music that allows you to sort, find, make playlists, etc -- things like album name, track name, album artist, track artist, etc etc. Having this stuff right is really essential if you have a significant collection. The dBp metadata function is great, but not perfect for obscure titles.
AccurateRip is also cool, but not huge unless you are a SERIOUS audiophile interested in ensuring that your rip was absoutely perfect. Even then it's not perfect. I have ripped MANY CDs where the disk was not in AccurateRip, or not in enough quantity to give me a judgment. There were also times where I was clearly ripping a somewhat different pressing of an album, where EVERY track came up as a bad rip. Aside from ripping, dBp has a core function which is converting music files from one type to another. It does this superbly, with many useful tools. You can convert a large library, leave it chugging away for as long as it takes, and with a multi processor system that won't be all that long -- dBp Reference will use each processor separately, multiplying the speed of the conversion. I don't object to the $5 per year for Metadata, and don't know if I'll upgrade dBp when the next major upgrade comes by. It would have to have serious features not in the current version. Ron -- RonM ------------------------------------------------------------------------ RonM's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17029 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71480 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
