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I've been using iTunes to import CD's, and this has been working really well, but registered for dMC as it supports accurate rip and some other features that aren't essential, but for 8 quid why not.. Having fixed performance issues, although iTunes is still faster at ripping, I'm finding that some ID tags are missing whereas they're present with iTunes, giving greatly inferior results with dMC. I've tried the default Smart APE and V1 and V2 tags, and this makes no difference.
For example, a track that is ripped with iTunes has tags for title, artist, album, composer, track, year, genre, whereas with dMC the tags are just artist, title, album, genre and track. In this case, the composer incorrectly appears as the artist. Furthermore, iTunes has correctly identified the CD as a compilation, whereas dMC hasn't (or doesn't distinguish them specially), and the tag information itself is also better with iTunes. I realise that this is dependent on CDDB.
I've noticed this on a few CD's, and not just one.
Selecting extra information from CDDB does not return any other results, although I'm suspecting that the CD may be listed more than once, and iTunes is better at picking the best listing.
Any ideas? Have I missed some feature that gives better tag info? I'm sure that dMC has some good features, but right now iTunes is giving much better ripping results, and sad to report, dMC is a disappointment and offers no reason why it should be used.
Nick
I've been using iTunes to import CD's, and this has been working really well, but registered for dMC as it supports accurate rip and some other features that aren't essential, but for 8 quid why not.. Having fixed performance issues, although iTunes is still faster at ripping, I'm finding that some ID tags are missing whereas they're present with iTunes, giving greatly inferior results with dMC. I've tried the default Smart APE and V1 and V2 tags, and this makes no difference.
For example, a track that is ripped with iTunes has tags for title, artist, album, composer, track, year, genre, whereas with dMC the tags are just artist, title, album, genre and track. In this case, the composer incorrectly appears as the artist. Furthermore, iTunes has correctly identified the CD as a compilation, whereas dMC hasn't (or doesn't distinguish them specially), and the tag information itself is also better with iTunes. I realise that this is dependent on CDDB.
I've noticed this on a few CD's, and not just one.
Selecting extra information from CDDB does not return any other results, although I'm suspecting that the CD may be listed more than once, and iTunes is better at picking the best listing.
Any ideas? Have I missed some feature that gives better tag info? I'm sure that dMC has some good features, but right now iTunes is giving much better ripping results, and sad to report, dMC is a disappointment and offers no reason why it should be used.
Nick
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