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I've got around 1000 CDs ripped to Apple Lossless on my NAS, which I did several years ago (i.e. before I found out about AccurateRip).
I'd like to make sure that my collection is ripped correctly, but at present it seems that the only way to do this is to rip it all again using an AccurateRip-compatible ripper, and I really can't face that!
But it seems to me that it should be possible to check the lossless files against the AccurateRip database - each folder contains 1 CDs worth of lossless files, so I would have thought that, in theory, these could be converted to WAV, the resulting WAV files used to calculate the CD ID code, this used to look up the desired checksums on the AccurateRip database, and checksums then calculated for the WAV files. An application could be written to do this which could then be left to run across a directory tree, which could then spit out a log of files which matched the AR data, files with errors and files for which AR data couldn't be found.
Is this possible? Has anyone written anything that does this? Are there any plans afoot to produce something to do this? I can't be the only person who would like to check their lossless files after the fact...
If I had time, I'd try and knock up a Python script to do it myself, but I can see that being nearly as unpopular on the domestic front as if I went and locked myself in the study for three months ripping discs again...
I'd like to make sure that my collection is ripped correctly, but at present it seems that the only way to do this is to rip it all again using an AccurateRip-compatible ripper, and I really can't face that!
But it seems to me that it should be possible to check the lossless files against the AccurateRip database - each folder contains 1 CDs worth of lossless files, so I would have thought that, in theory, these could be converted to WAV, the resulting WAV files used to calculate the CD ID code, this used to look up the desired checksums on the AccurateRip database, and checksums then calculated for the WAV files. An application could be written to do this which could then be left to run across a directory tree, which could then spit out a log of files which matched the AR data, files with errors and files for which AR data couldn't be found.
Is this possible? Has anyone written anything that does this? Are there any plans afoot to produce something to do this? I can't be the only person who would like to check their lossless files after the fact...
If I had time, I'd try and knock up a Python script to do it myself, but I can see that being nearly as unpopular on the domestic front as if I went and locked myself in the study for three months ripping discs again...
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