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GaryM>
You are a wealth of helpful information, and I am very grateful. Thank you!
I have been marching through my archives doing clean up work and reconciling my data base in excel with my actual FLAC files.
This can be expensive procedure, I purchased 28 CD yesterday just to fill in gaps in my collection. There is a Gospel group named Acappella they do astounding things with very complex harmonies and arrangements. When I want to show off my speakers I often reach for Acappella. The group is somehow church related in that they believe it is a sin to use a musical instrument in church, so for them singing with out instruments is a theological choice not a performance choice.
A flood of their earliest stuff has just been reissued and I was interested. On their website I have $150 in my cart at $12/cd + S&H and I thought: "I will call these people and ask for a discount." They don't answer their phone, I left two messages.
Getting nowhere quick I started cross shopping Amazon and I have almost all the same items and much more for $50. The lady calls back 5 hours later and I told her that I filled most of the order from Amazon.
"They may not be brand new."
"I know that, if they don't rip perfectly I will not pay for the CD. I haven't had enough room in my living room for physical CDs for many years, I rip once and then the master goes into storage and I may never see it again."
I don't know how well that went over for her. Time to check your business model.
If I don't rip everything again soon all this conversation about multiple values in a tag is perhaps some where in my future.
Evidently at some point I moved my MP3 directory into MUSIC and that merged my FLAC files and MP3 files into a common single directory tree. I can't globally delete all mp3 files because in a few cases that may be my only digital archive. The only way to properly clean up the mess is to re-rip (no thank you) or walk the whole archive one directory at a time and clean up as I go. I am maybe 2/3 done and it is going very well. I'd have to do a walking clean up if I were re ripped anyway. I have two very large 4k displays and I have all this down to a system. It goes quickly.
Once I "perfect" the archive I'll do a bulk convert from FLAC to Mp3 and copy both directories to both NASs.
I can see I have been doing things the hard way, I expect to start playing with mp3tag and ASSET sometime soon. My Oppo players prefer local USB drives to DLNA via network to get all the features. I also keep a full FLAC back up on several USB WD 3TB passport drives. I would have room to also store both FLAC and MP3 archive on any one USB drives as well. Few other things life give the safe feeling of having all your music stored on two different NASs and four different USB drives.
The last time (10-20+ years ago) I looked at presentation software, like LMS foobar2000, they just added overhead and got in the way. Logitech, for example, was the rage then Logitech over night lost interest and quit making the Squeezebox. In contrast DLNA is like a DOS command line. It is simple and robust, it lacks niceties but I don't have to wait to listen while a program downloads liner notes or indexes 40,000 songs. I haven't shopped presentation software in decades I suspect it has greatly improved, but what I have works and is bullet proof when I don't screw it up.
GaryM>
You are a wealth of helpful information, and I am very grateful. Thank you!
I have been marching through my archives doing clean up work and reconciling my data base in excel with my actual FLAC files.
This can be expensive procedure, I purchased 28 CD yesterday just to fill in gaps in my collection. There is a Gospel group named Acappella they do astounding things with very complex harmonies and arrangements. When I want to show off my speakers I often reach for Acappella. The group is somehow church related in that they believe it is a sin to use a musical instrument in church, so for them singing with out instruments is a theological choice not a performance choice.
A flood of their earliest stuff has just been reissued and I was interested. On their website I have $150 in my cart at $12/cd + S&H and I thought: "I will call these people and ask for a discount." They don't answer their phone, I left two messages.
Getting nowhere quick I started cross shopping Amazon and I have almost all the same items and much more for $50. The lady calls back 5 hours later and I told her that I filled most of the order from Amazon.
"They may not be brand new."
"I know that, if they don't rip perfectly I will not pay for the CD. I haven't had enough room in my living room for physical CDs for many years, I rip once and then the master goes into storage and I may never see it again."
I don't know how well that went over for her. Time to check your business model.
If I don't rip everything again soon all this conversation about multiple values in a tag is perhaps some where in my future.
Evidently at some point I moved my MP3 directory into MUSIC and that merged my FLAC files and MP3 files into a common single directory tree. I can't globally delete all mp3 files because in a few cases that may be my only digital archive. The only way to properly clean up the mess is to re-rip (no thank you) or walk the whole archive one directory at a time and clean up as I go. I am maybe 2/3 done and it is going very well. I'd have to do a walking clean up if I were re ripped anyway. I have two very large 4k displays and I have all this down to a system. It goes quickly.
Once I "perfect" the archive I'll do a bulk convert from FLAC to Mp3 and copy both directories to both NASs.
I can see I have been doing things the hard way, I expect to start playing with mp3tag and ASSET sometime soon. My Oppo players prefer local USB drives to DLNA via network to get all the features. I also keep a full FLAC back up on several USB WD 3TB passport drives. I would have room to also store both FLAC and MP3 archive on any one USB drives as well. Few other things life give the safe feeling of having all your music stored on two different NASs and four different USB drives.
The last time (10-20+ years ago) I looked at presentation software, like LMS foobar2000, they just added overhead and got in the way. Logitech, for example, was the rage then Logitech over night lost interest and quit making the Squeezebox. In contrast DLNA is like a DOS command line. It is simple and robust, it lacks niceties but I don't have to wait to listen while a program downloads liner notes or indexes 40,000 songs. I haven't shopped presentation software in decades I suspect it has greatly improved, but what I have works and is bullet proof when I don't screw it up.
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