Some metadata changes (Recording Date !!) happened in this period too, but really not that much (except for my classical naming scheme). This has some advantages in that while I was listening, I often looked up the artists and albums in Wikipedia, Amazon and/or Discogs to expand my knowledge of the music, recordings, other opinions, getting artwork, etc. That doesn't sound like much compared to others (6400 !!), but then I am mostly doing "Rate and Rip" ! It takes a bit more time to listen through an album and rate the songs, but I am not into collecting, or having the biggest whatever, but rather finding the music that I really like from all the chaff. When I figured it out and changed every one to an unadorned e, voilà (sorry, MPD - I meant voila)! They appeared like magic. It took me over a week to get all of my Cyrille Aimée albums to show up because of the stupid aigu over the first e in her last name.
But an occasional album fails to show up on JR or MPD until I use Picard to "correct" tags that work in Foobar.Īnd then there's the amazing problem of foreign punctuation and accents. When all I used was Foobar for ripping and playing, everything I ripped showed up without incident. It's still beyond comprehension that some current discs on major labels don't appear on MusicBrainz or FreeDB while old and obscure ones from the same artist are right there on the list.
RIPPING O0UT OF YOU SMEDIUM TEE FULL
The first thing I plan to do on my first day of full retirement is to go through all those files and corral every stray. and somehow, even after rechecking and re-editing a thousand times, there are still a few albums that only show up as individual songs. It's the checking and correcting metadata! It's not the ripping that's particularly tedious. So - until 1GB "reliable" (The big word here) wireless is the rote norm - and everyone can enjoy at least SD streaming (FLAC at 16/44.1) - that future is years away.Īs of now - nothing beats my high res home network and the 5400+ albums available on the server with no possibility of stoppage. I have tested on the fly streaming (at home and on the move) a LOT in the past year - and even here in tech heavy Calgary where 100-250MB connections are the norm - I still cannot stream anything to my phone or any other device for that matter in the city without a connection stopping, gapping or simply failing. Too bad that the "future" as of today - continues to be lossy, crappy sounding stuff that still can only be enjoyed if your internet connection is sound. The economics, skill set and effort required for home based large scale music storage will make it a hobby within a hobby. For me,the future is in cloud based streaming not running an individual data center.
The jury is out for me whether I will get my whole collection ripped or not. That is serious money for anyone to have a personal library of music. 1800 CDs is one heck of a collection! At around $12 a disk that comes to $21,000. That brought to mind 2008 when I ripped about 1000 CDs (I've done about 800 more since) but that was really grueling or at least extremely tedious work. In all honesty I'm sick of doing it today. But today I had 15 titles to do two of which were double CDs and save for a couple of phone call interruptions I have been at it four hours and have one CD left. Normally I have one or two CDs to add to my collection and of course that's not any big deal to add the artwork, check and add metadata and rip the CDs. Holy Cow! I don't envy those who are just beginning or still in the midst of ripping your CD collection to complete you library for your music server.
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