Any album artwork/information/lyric sheets that I want to keep I see if I can find online, otherwise photograph, and add to the album folder. If a disk image hasn’t been generated I search for a suitable one online and save as folder.jpg (1000x1000 pixels or less) in the album folder. Track filenames I check commence with track number 01 - etc, except double albums 101… 201… I also check the metadata, normally OK apart from classical when some tweaking for consistency is often needed. I check filenames and amend as appropriate, with classical in particular I often make changes, wanting the album folder name to be the name of the work, then conductor, orchestra & soloist names (often abbreviated) and if relevant the year. (I’ve only ever had a handful of tracks where the most rigorous still reported errors, but nothing obviously untoward on playing the rip). It could obviously be the drive, but that doesn't help you now.How? With ripper software dBPoweramp on a Windows computer with inbuilt CD drive.: I rip to flac, default compression level 5, default ripping conditions with AccurateRip check - if problems then try progressively more rigorous read attempts, though they can be a lot slower. Obviously this is all based on today's version, but it doesn't explain why you're getting some rips that do verify and some that don't unfortunately (assuming you're checking now in CUETools). So MediaMonkey can produce mostly accurate rips in 'Jitter-corrected read' mode (so will be able to in 'Secure' mode too), but without a paid version it doesn't do any checking. I also couldn't see anywhere to add (or have it detect) my drive offset, so when I added the pre-gap information to CUETools the rip did verify against AccurateRip but with an offset of 6. Whilst you're there, you should also change 'CTDB: Detailed log' to True, as this will output pre-gap information in the log too.Īs I've said before, depending on the type of error CUETools might be able to fix a rip, so keep an eye on the CTDB matches at the top of the log for possible corrections.Ĭode: In CUETools, if you go to Settings and set to True, it'll output a toc (table of contents) file when you perform a verify (useful for comparing to MusicBrainz). If you find your CD release on the website and go to the track listing page, towards the top theres a Disc IDs tab which will list all the CD pressings associated with the release, clicking on them will show their table of contents.įor one of the CDs that PerfectTunes doesn't verify, try and run it through CUETools as it'll give you a log with more detailed information. I don't think you can search the AccurateRip or CUETools database manually, but what I've used in the past is MusicBrainz. The advantage of dbPoweramp is that it'll be able to handle most of your tag requirements too, and so should make your workflow a bit simpler. That said, is there a way for me to browse TOC data from AccurateRip for various pressings of a given Album? I'd like to look for a pattern of error so I can understand what has gone wrong to make absolutely sure I don't repeat the error.Both EAC and dBpoweramp are great. Recently, I've been using Exact Audio Copy, largely because it was literally the next FLAC encoder I found after Media Monkey. I suspect I'm going to have to re-rip with something a bit more concerned about such things. ID Tags: does not write ID Tags, but does allow browsing and shows recommendationsĭe-Dup: shows duplicates but does not enable deletion The only limitations of the free version of PerfectTunes appears to be:Īlbum Art: displays possible matches, but will not save art I'm guessing the album art tool will be using the tags (you could test that by changing the album tag). If you have more than one disc per folder it'll likely be using the DISCNUMBER tag to diffenciate between discs otherwise it'll be trying to match to a single CD that contains all the tracks of all the discs. I'm not certain about PerfectTunes as I use CUETools, but I believe it will be matching to AccurateRip on the table of contents of the CD (including the pregap), and then to check if it's correctly ripped it'll calculate the checksum of the audio data - in VERY simple terms :-) Given you've already ripped them it'll be using the lengths of the individual tracks, so if MediaMonkey wasn't ripping with gaps appended it likely won't match.
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