... nice to read the responses here and thanks for everyone taken the time over my initial rambling. I've done (badly) the mixed rip to mp3/wma over the years and so am now going for flac and am torn between usable meta-data vs. retentive meta-data with everything in it...
It's the latter that is a bigger draw. Just to stay with classical for a moment - which is where I came in with my initial post, looking at 170CD Mozart box - I'm currently thinking about "just" ripping with enough detail to identify the disk. What I'd then like is another source of meta-data to use in conjunction with this to build up the Squeeze database. I don't want the scan based just on the files. The reason is that I can't help thinking this data exists. Excluding the odd "found" work Mozart's output for new stuff has been fairly minimal for a while. It's been catalogued and indexed. I'd like to rip a 40/41 symphony CD with little more than a unique id/track number in each track and then pull in data that knows what 1) its four tracks are 2) the details about the particular recording. I know dbPowerAmp is good at grabbing meta-data but I want more! I also want this to generate multiple pseudo-albums as it goes. It's CD x/170 of this box (I might care in future - it's not impossible I'd want to listen to everything in its collation order. Unlikely, obviously but why lose this detail) so I'd like an album for that. I'd like 40 & 41 as separate works too, with a work/album for each. I could obviously do this manually... I'm using dbPowerAmp to sequence mutli-CDs (e.g. operas) as one long CD. (I've done this manually so I really appreciate this!) I'd also like LMS to be multi-view (or multi-library). I like the suggestion about suffixing album versions with detail. I'd like to know all exist but I'd like to nominate one as a "canonical" version for the other-half (who is - happily - considerably less obsessed about this stuff). Oh, and Alexa integration! (Which I know is underway elsewhere.) But, in short: I'd like not to fiddle with a tag application on files; I'd like to fiddle with a database of data that is used when scanning files to create the LMS content. Seems doable, but a lot of effort. At least I've quite a bit of music to listen to whilst I'm at it... Thanks to all; still open for any hints tips or advice. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ InvisibleMonkey's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32038 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=107225 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list ripping@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
