A lot of different topics in this thread but an interesting discussion. My view around ripping/tagging is that you are never going to get 100% correct first time but there are some great tools out there which will automate the process.
My personal approach is to use vortexbox on my small server, its great to get a new CD in the post, pop it in the server and 10-15 later its ripped, tagged, got cover art & available on my Squeezeboxes - this was particularly beneficial when I re-ripped my cd collection into FLAC earlier this year. I'm moving house at the moment, the Cd's are being boxed up and will stay that way, as I've got all my music stored on the server in lossless format then I have no need for having the cd's in a rack taking up a lot of space. Of course, there are times when it doesn't get the correct information and I have to manually edit tags (I use mp3tag & the find cover art plugin for this). Before buying my first Squeezebox I used iTunes for ripping music to then transfer to iPod/iPhone, to be honest I never had any problems and liked the software, as it stands I rarely use it now and using SB kit has opened my eyes to the limitations of Apple. In terms of a "typical user", I fully understand where people come from with that, I have a group of friends, we're all late 20's and everyone has either an iPod or iPhone, out of that group I think perhaps only 2/3 from the 15 would be savvy enough to use SB kit - looking at the touch and the radio these are the type of products that may well push that number up. That might come across as slightly snobby but I think people will know what I mean. -- socistep ------------------------------------------------------------------------ socistep's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18860 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=67637 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
