If you don’t get an AccurateRip verified rip you’re unlikely to be able to fix it later (though you might give a valiant effort with CUETools). In mind (and recognize that some here would rate me a philistine for this), the number one thing to worry about is accuracy. Pick something you can stick with, and decide what you’re getting out of it. Here, we all got it to one degree or another.īut… take a good long look at a workflow you think you can support through however many albums you have now plus a bunch more you are likely to get each year. I’m not telling you not to give into ocd. If you have an ID in either EAC or XLD, your chances of not being identified are very very very slim.Īsk all the questions you want. If you use XLD, it only has CDDB built in, but you can pull metadata from any MusicBrainz or Discogs URL, and it’s been incredibly reliable for me, including getting tied into AccurateRip, which is the most important thing for security / quality. If you use EAC get GDD3 (sp?) the service that it comes with a 10 album trial of. If you use a good ripper, you should be fine. I should say they are mercifully rare (I have a few African releases from the 1970s and some Costa Rican folclor compilations but that’s maybe 8 albums out of a few hundred that would sound equally random to you all my “normal” recordings including some really minor jazz from the 1930’s identified just dandy). The big reason to get reasonable metadata in advance of loading all your files is so that Roon can identify all or at least most of your albums. I, for one, have never edited the Roon data on an album - I very rarely see something that is wrong, and shrug and figure that maybe it’ll be fixed by the next time I notice it. Your OCD may bring you to make edits to the Roon data, there are certainly plenty who do either because they listen to music that is not well covered (bootlegs, band camp, rare pressings, etc) or because they just really really care. The blessing and the curse is that they make it fairly unnecessary to do once they know which recording something is and have attached it to a “known” recording and all their curated metadata. My advice is not to plan on grooming tags / files after they are loaded and “identified”.
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