ralphpnj wrote: > Things needed for successful ripping and maintenance of a music > library: > > dbPowerAmp: worth every penny of its low price. > > Back up: A full mirrored back up is a must. If you think ripping a CD > collection once is a pain, just think how painful re-ripping that > collection will be if your hard drive fails and you have no back up. I > know because I learned the hard way. > > mp3Tag: either this free program or any other quality tagging program is > another must have. > > Renamer: a good batch renaming program will also come in quite handy. > > Image editing program: a good image editing program will also come in > handy for managing and maintaining good cover art. I use FastStone Image > Viewer, a very nice free program which handles most graphic formats as > well as scans. > > DVD Audio Extractor: for extracting audio from DVD-Video and DVD-Audio > discs.
You are far more advanced that I at this point in time. For now it appears that I will wind up with dBpoweramp and mp3tag. For now I will be quite happy if I can get those programs to give me well tagged rips to flac, then be able to convert them to wav or some other format in order to burn CDs when needed (or perhaps dBpoweramp can burn CDs with flac files...I have not gotten that far). As for backup, I have a rather basic system. I just use another hard drive mounted in a mobile rack tray for my backup. As files change I place the backup drive into the mobile rack, copy/delete or whatever necessary to change the files, remove the backup drive and store it in a closet. Primitive perhaps, but it works. Thanks for your reply. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jdt7385's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=56306 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95312 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
