For what it's worth, here's what I'm doing: I use iTunes to RIP my CDs. I have iTunes manage the files and folders (based on the tags as edited in iTunes). This results in the usual music/artist/album/song directory structure.
I'm using a stock SB Touch for playback, basically just browsing either by Artist or Album. With the limited display width, I try to be concise. I consider an "Album" to be THE work (singular). One physical CD with three works becomes three "albums". The album tag is "Composer - Work (Optional ID)". For instance: "Beethoven - Sym #3", "Beethoven - Sym #5 (Solti)", or "Beethoven - Sym #5 (HvK)". I usually consider that the "Artist" is the Orchestra, or in some cases Orchestra+Conductor. I want to keep the number of "artists" manageable. For the track title I usually use "Composer+ShortWorkTitle - # movement". (Arabic numerals are much easier than Roman numerals.) In iTunes, I fill in the Composer tag as "Last, First (born-died)" In the "Comments" tag, I'll put in the names of conductor, soloists, recording locations, CD number, etc. as seems appropriate. Of course, everything doesn't quite fit this scheme, but it works quite well for me. It's also a lot manual work as the online databases have a different style. Earlier, after several test sessions, I found that MP3 at 320kbps seemed like a good choice sonically. But sometime later, I found that even with the iTunes "gapless" flag set, I did not get glitch-less SB Touch playback with continuous pieces of music. Compositions with distinct movements were fine, but things like "Carmina Burana" or an opera would have audible glitches (not gaps) at some track transitions. For such cases I found that re-ripping with Apple Lossless solved the problem. Whatever you choose, I'd suggest taking it slowly and be prepared to go back and change as you gain more experience. -- R Johnson ------------------------------------------------------------------------ R Johnson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=36462 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86312 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
