When I started ripping CDs about 10 years ago, I was ripping for use with an iPod, and then a Sonos set-up that played in the kitchen through serviceable speakers. Back then I saw no reason not to rip in AAC. It was only a couple of years later that I started streaming music on my "proper" hi-fi and realized that lossless formats did sound better. This has become more of an issue as I've upgraded my hi-fi: not that the AAC rips sound any worse than they used to, just that the lossless rips now sound so much better.
I'm now in the process of re-ripping those early rips, about 400 CDs. Working through the classical stuff in alphabetical order, I've just reached Busoni. (OK, that's much better progress that it might seem: B's a big letter after all.)
But it's a slow process, for two reasons. I use dbpoweramp, but it runs quite sluggishly, about 5x normal play speed. And I'm also rather fastidious about metadata, especially on classical music. The metadata supplied on classical CDs is thoroughly unsystematic, at least for my purposes, as I like to browse my music by artist name, and I want the composer's name to appear in the artist field. So lots of fiddly re-tagging.
So my question is: is there anything I can do (aside from buying a faster PC) to speed up ripping and tagging, assuming (a) I want the best quality rips and (b) I won't change the way I organize my metadata?
:cheers:
Matt
I'm now in the process of re-ripping those early rips, about 400 CDs. Working through the classical stuff in alphabetical order, I've just reached Busoni. (OK, that's much better progress that it might seem: B's a big letter after all.)
But it's a slow process, for two reasons. I use dbpoweramp, but it runs quite sluggishly, about 5x normal play speed. And I'm also rather fastidious about metadata, especially on classical music. The metadata supplied on classical CDs is thoroughly unsystematic, at least for my purposes, as I like to browse my music by artist name, and I want the composer's name to appear in the artist field. So lots of fiddly re-tagging.
So my question is: is there anything I can do (aside from buying a faster PC) to speed up ripping and tagging, assuming (a) I want the best quality rips and (b) I won't change the way I organize my metadata?
:cheers:
Matt