> > 10% isn't bad. Have you found a website that satisfies the majority of > your needs? I've been looking for such a place (other than Amazon)with > very little luck. > For the tags that WMP doesn't pick up, I've been able to use freedb pretty successfully. For album art, I've been bouncing around between allmusic.com, amazon.com, and google searches. Through a google search, I stumbled across a couple of classical music websites (didn't save the URLs, unfortunately) that had quite a good selection. I must admit, I am glad that my classical selection is pretty small, given how much work it is to clean up classical tags!
> > ... but even if I were on Windows, WMP wouldn't do because WMP doesn't > do flac or any of the other multi-platform lossless audio codecs. > I tried FLAC first ... ripped 200 CDs with EZ CD-DA Extracor ... then got frustrated by all the tag maintenance I had to do, not to mention the album art. I would have stuck with FLAC, but the thought of downloading 800+ CD covers was too daunting, even with the tools that semi-automate the task. > > What I don't understand is why, if you spent your money on a CD you > liked in the first place, are you not concerned about the audio > quality? > I am concerned about audio quality, but I need to balance that with the other factors that are important to me (good tags and art, and time required to process 800 CDs). Lossless is lossless, WMA Lossless will sound the same as FLAC, all EAC will buy me over WMP is correction of read errors and errors introduced by damaged media, right? So far, I've listened to about 30 ripped CDs, and haven't noticed any problems. While I like the idea of ripping all my CDs with EAC and being more confident that all my CDs have been accurately ripped to the best of their ability, the time it'll take me to get them all ripped and tagged is just not worth it to me. From what I understand (I have not personally used EAC, just read a lot about it) it will take a fair bit longer to rip each CD since it reads each bit multiple times ... times 800 CDs, this becomes more than I can personally tolerate. > > Tags are easy to fix while you're sitting there chilling out having a > drink and relaxing. Ripping a CD again because I didn't copy the track > correctly is a huge pain. With an 8 year old and a 3 year old, "chilling out" is something I don't get much opportunity to do :-) In my case, I'd rather get the first pass at ripping my stack of CDs done quickly, then re-rip the ones that need it as I discover them. To each his own ... as you pointed out, SlimServer meets our differing needs quite well! -- Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2848 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20808 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
