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Thank you! I'm going to run my test CDs and we'll see if it is the winner! (Fanfare)

In my opinion, the only concern is proper backups (which you seem to be doing) and making sure files are not corrupted (which is easy to do). If...

No. I just want to make sure to the best of my ability that my music collection is properly preserved and maintained. It is possible that in the...

Try this. (reverse all the back slashes). And this assumes you aways have ALBUM ARTIST SORT filled in on every track. 240,Various Artists\\Disc \...

hard to say. The file would be re-written, but the question is whether the program re-writing the file changes the file modification date. Many do,...

Yeah. Thats what I thought. Must be a setting in DBPA ... Gary - Can you add album artist sort to your various artists string? I would...

Thanks to both of you for the replies. I will just continue using the mp3tag and UltraSearch App during my checks, but add in the Batch Converter...

that has nothing to do with the naming string. Folder.jpg wont be there unless you ripped a CD and it creates the artwork.

Simbun- I used your string without the year and I noticed that their isn''t a folder.jpg in each individual file like there was in the original...

no, doesn't matter in dbpoweramp. Just don't tick "use C2" in the ripper settings. Most of my drives don't use C2. The beauty of dbpoweramp secure...

Yeah. I'm going to see about a metadata editing program for Mac. Does the C2 capability of the drive matter? Mine says that it doesn't do it.

Maybe too simple for what you want to do, but if I was trying to find tracks in my library that were missing metadata (tag fields), I'd simply open...

When you add (rather than apply which alters the actual audio of a file) replaygain to a file, all you're doing is adding tags that tells the player...

No, the TEST CONVERSION or VERIFY INTEGRITY has nothing to do with confirming "sound quality" or whether any tags are missing. These functions...

Thanks to both of you for responding. I am no expert on data tags except understanding the general purpose of them being to identify a song file's...

Heck, 50 you are practically a teenager. Also with regard to download files Hi-Rez or otherwise, they sometimes have metadata sometimes not, but most...

Thanks guys. Yeah, Simbun, I&*8217;m over 50, I need names in things! Close to finalizing my string. Slightly OT, when you download a hirez flac...

mp3tag will let you load up your entire library at once. I can load my entire library of about 9,000 albums (all in separate Artist/Album folders)...

So your podcasts are literally in the same tree structure as your music, and not like ./podcasts ./music I suppose the other question is are you...

I was almost afraid of that :( Multiple Asset-UPnP instances would unfortunately not be practical for me. Moreover, I need the existing structure...

If you're pointing the AssetUPnP library to a location where all your albums, "collections" and podcasts reside then it's going to index them all and...

The original string was: Various Artistsalbum artist sort\1,4, - \CD2,48,,\ - To just remove the YEAR you can change it to: Various...

I'm not sure it'll help as I assume you're using AssetUPnP, but MinimServer can do this and a lot more to boot. If you have an image in the root of...

Firstly, I use foobar for my tagging QA and WSL for any filesystem checks I make (because I'm more comfortable scripting in Linux than I am Windows)....

You could add a second, or third, or fourth plus cover to any of these tracks. Some few players can rotate through these covers as they are being...

240,Various Artists\\Disc \ - - album artist,,\\Disc \ - this will use "Various Artists" instead. Be sure on "compilations" you set the...

You guys are correct. I'm confident now that I have all of the necessary tags filled. I'm just going to settle on a string and start ripping. I...

excellent point @simbun. Once you get bitperfect rips, tags, file name, folders, etc. can all be easily changed in bulk with a few mouse clicks. ...

Hi Johnnyb, Whilst it's great to see that you're spending the time upfront to get your folder structure right, I think you're worrying too much...