Hi All, Where to start, where to start...
I just bought my first SB last week after seeing a buddy's in action a while ago, and I'm a convert already. I've been devouring these forums as quickly as possible - there's a ton of really useful information here, and a LOT of really knowledgeable folks contributing. I have roughly 1500 CDs in my collection, and much of it is archived as shn files. I use EAC to rip, Shorten to compress, MD5Summer to create checksums, and Nero to burn a backup. After purchasing an iPod nano a year ago or so, I started ripping them to my hard disk, originally using iTunes and m4a format, but lately I've been using EAC and the Lame MP3 encoder. I'm up to about 140GB of mp3 and m4a files, and I've been using iTunes for cataloging to this point. Since buying the SB3, I'm rethinking my archive format, and I'm planning on switching over to flac for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that the SB supports it. As well, I'd like to find some cataloging software that will handle flac as well as my existing mp3 and m4a files. Although its going to be tedious, I plan on redoing the mp3 and m4a rips to flac once I work my way through the remainder of my collection. (I'm somewhere around "L" or "M", and I can't wait to get to Zappa!) I'm now trying to figure out how to get a handle on my collection. I'd like to be able to get it onto disk in a lossless format useable by the SB, convertable so that I can load up my nano (without requiring a whole bunch of redundant disk storage just for an mp3 library). I'm also rethinking my ripper as well. After reading some other threads here, I've downloaded dbpoweramp v12, and successfully ripped a half a dozen CDs this evening with cover art and converted them to flac without a lot of manual intervention. I'll still need to use MD5Summer when I archive to CD, but for clean CDs, dbpoweramp seems to do a pretty good job. So now to my point (if I had one...) Does anyone have any cataloging software recommendations? MediaMonkey seems to be mentioned here on occasion, as does Godfather. Any other advice for a newbie? Sorry for rambling - and thanks in advance for your opinions and suggestions! Brawny -- brawny ------------------------------------------------------------------------ brawny's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11131 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34786 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
