I'm surprised at your choice of CDex over EAC.  Given your love for all
things audiophile, why have you gone for CDex?  From all the
information I've seen, EAC is the best exact ripper out there so should
give you the best chance at getting the best possible rip from your
cds.

Max

pfarrell Wrote: 
> On Sun, 2005-07-10 at 10:32 -0700, sposthuma wrote:
> > I guess the question is how do I rip FLAC files and get the right
> > tagging? If I am to undertake the ripping of hundreds of CDs I want
> to
> > get all the information right.
> 
> Depends on your OS, etc.
> On Windows, I use CDex to wav, and then use FlacfrontEnd to 
> compress and tag. I have CDex set the file/path to match the
> artist/album/nn-trackname
> 
> On Linux, I use grip.
> 
> Either approach gets the data from Freedb/CDDB.
> If you do hundreds (I did about 700) you
> will find that for most pop, Freedb gets it close
> to correct. For more serious jazz and clasical,
> it does a bad to terrible job. So I did 
> a lot of manual fixups.
> 
> I strongly suggest doing a few batches of four or
> five CDs at a time. Work up a process that works
> for you and your tunes.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Pat
> http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html


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