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HI, I just started to look at perfecttunes after many happy years with dbpoweramp and asset server.
The idea sounds great but the implementation seems poor (maybe I'm not using it correctly).
I ran up the trial yesterday and started the accurate rip check.
It took 12+hours and I cancelled a couple of times in the very beginning. When I cancelled it didn't show any "results so far" which means it needs to run all through without breaks or error before anything useful is seen. That is really heavy on Time and bandwidth. I'd like to have had the comfort of seeing "stats so far" and a flag to restart where it left off even at the early development stage.
However now it's done after 12+ hours what I get is a list of corrupted files and the chance to delete them singly - no saveable list it seems but then that may only be on the paid version. When I play the files many play fine. It's not practical for me to buy a new CD for 1 track nor is it necessary for me to always need the "perfect" track. It may be sufficient for me to know the track may be bad and to judge track by track if I want to keep it in the catalogue. So it makes a great deal of sense for these files to be MOVED to a new folder pending deletion/readmittance. I don't see anywhere I can set perfect tunes to do this.
I all seems a bit beta to me :-(
Also by the amount of data that has been sent out to the internet it seems that the CDs may be being copied to illustrate which means they may even be stored. Does this happen? If it does then it's possible that some personal data is transmitted. Ie spoken word/ personal recordings files, personal and unreleased music content etc. How is this prevented? - This may be covered in your privacy statement but I haven't seen it anywhere yet. Could you please supply the link?
I haven't tested any of the other features but the accurate rip feature is big enough for me to judge the product on this alone I think.
The idea is still a good one however.
The idea sounds great but the implementation seems poor (maybe I'm not using it correctly).
I ran up the trial yesterday and started the accurate rip check.
It took 12+hours and I cancelled a couple of times in the very beginning. When I cancelled it didn't show any "results so far" which means it needs to run all through without breaks or error before anything useful is seen. That is really heavy on Time and bandwidth. I'd like to have had the comfort of seeing "stats so far" and a flag to restart where it left off even at the early development stage.
However now it's done after 12+ hours what I get is a list of corrupted files and the chance to delete them singly - no saveable list it seems but then that may only be on the paid version. When I play the files many play fine. It's not practical for me to buy a new CD for 1 track nor is it necessary for me to always need the "perfect" track. It may be sufficient for me to know the track may be bad and to judge track by track if I want to keep it in the catalogue. So it makes a great deal of sense for these files to be MOVED to a new folder pending deletion/readmittance. I don't see anywhere I can set perfect tunes to do this.
I all seems a bit beta to me :-(
Also by the amount of data that has been sent out to the internet it seems that the CDs may be being copied to illustrate which means they may even be stored. Does this happen? If it does then it's possible that some personal data is transmitted. Ie spoken word/ personal recordings files, personal and unreleased music content etc. How is this prevented? - This may be covered in your privacy statement but I haven't seen it anywhere yet. Could you please supply the link?
I haven't tested any of the other features but the accurate rip feature is big enough for me to judge the product on this alone I think.
The idea is still a good one however.
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