Huge said:
On 2016-02-06, Jim Lesurf wrote:
In article , Bob Latham
In article , Eiron

So I should bite the bullet and convert all my CDs again to FLAC.

I fully concur with that idea.

In some ways I guess I was fortunate in coming a bit late to the party of
using computer files for audio. Meant I didn't have to worry so much as I
might in the past about the storage requirements.

Tell me about it. I'm going to have to re-rip all my CDs. I'm not so much
bothered about the actual ripping, as getting the tags right, which has
taken years. And that's not hyperbole - I'm still finding errors after
[consults directory listing of music] 7 years; Sunday 4th Jan 2009,
The Imagined Village, is the oldest file there.

I've been doing some of that, and have more to do. For commercially-produced
CDs, I seem to be finding that the internet databases have info on most of
what I have, the ripping software (linux - abcde) fills in the tags
automatically. There is the occasional speeling mistake, etc, but it makes
it much less of a big deal than doing it all manually.

Far worse is, I have several dozen gigabytes of home-made pocket-recorder
stuff going back to the early 80s, which would be far more useful if I
hadn't always been too intimidated to even start labelling them. kid3 is
much the most useful tag-manager I know of, if you can run KDE progs. I
particularly like the ability to import/export between tags and filenames;
belt and braces.

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