The most important thing imho is, that you come up with your own taxonomy for genres: tag all songs with the genre *you* would file them under in a record store. Second, for the flacs: create single files for each song; albums in one file (flac+cue) is--at least for me--unpractical.
If your mp3s are in a bad shape tag-wise (i.e. never cared to tag them until now and they are not all from the same source, say Apple/Google etc.), I would suggest that you run your whole collection through MusicBrainz Picard (https://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainz_Picard) before you start tagging them manually. Picard can add tags, group albums, move them to a folder structure you define (i.e. Artist/Year-Album) and rename all files coherently. Of course you will have to go through them manually later, but Picard can do small wonders to a previously messy collection. Oh, and one last tip: If you have low quality mp3s (192 and lower), get yourself a free account with Google Play Music, upload those files (you can upload up to 20.000 songs) to it and then download them again. Google replaces low quality mp3s in most cases with 256 or even VBR ones--for free. - *ASRock Ion 330* (home office) running Xubuntu 14.04.1 LTS + LMS 7.9, all music streamed as FLAC > Local Player > Behringer MS 40 active nearfield monitors via toslink - *Boom* (master bedroom), *Radio* (master bathroom), *Archos 35 Home Connect* + SqueezePlayer (guest bathroom) - *Reson PR 80s* as UPnP client (living room) > Parasound DAC 1500 > vintage Wega Modul 42V amp (with 42E equalizer, 42T tape deck, and Thorens TD 160 Mk II turntable) > Quadral Vulkan Mk II speakers - *Duet* + *Radio* in storage ------------------------------------------------------------------------ wortgefecht's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=63295 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102237 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
