How to use PerfectTUNES to check Rips?

[Fog_Chaser]

I'm thinking about buying PerfectTUNES primarily to check rips and fix album art. I had a commercial ripping service rip 650 discs into AIFF and ALAC. I want to confirm the rips are without errors. The files are in folders with artist name> album name> song name(s) and a Folder.jpg with album art (see attached screenshot). How would you run PerfectTUNES to check the entire folder of ripped CD's do you just point it to the folder and it does the rest automatically? How accurate is it since I didn't rip the CD's myself in dBpoweramp? Will this checking process mess with the metadata in any way? According to commercial ripping service they use AccurateRIP but I'd like to confirm what has been delivered.

[Spoon]

Simply run the AccurateRip component of PerfectTUNES and it will check those files.

[garym]

1. How would you run PerfectTUNES to check the entire folder of ripped CD's do you just point it to the folder and it does the rest automatically?

Yes, point it to the top folder containing all your music folders and it will do the rest automatically. Note that it will check for AccurateRip matches. Some rips may not have AR matches. And that's OK. But if there are any "corrupted" files, it will also tell you about these files. NOTE: In the AccurateRip settings for PerfectTunes, there is an option to use the AR tag when running the check. Untick this option (as you do NOT want it to use the embedded AR tag, you want PerfectTunes to re-check all the albums.)

2. How accurate is it since I didn't rip the CD's myself in dBpoweramp?

If AccurateRip match is reported then it is 100% accurate.

3. Will this checking process mess with the metadata in any way?

No.

4. You can check, change album art with the Album Art function within PerfectTunes

[Fog_Chaser]

Thanks for your responses, Spoon and GaryM.

I'm using a Mac, and I wasn’t able to find any option in PerfectTUNES to enable or disable AccurateRip settings —before running a scan. However, after the scan completed, I did notice a dropdown menu in the results area offering "Write AccurateRip Tags" and "Clear AccurateRip Tags." My scan found errors for 111 of 632 albums.

It wasn’t clear to me whether these actions apply just to the selected album, or if they affect the library globally - in other words, if I apply it to one album all will be affected. Also, what happens if I select neither option? I do want to make sure my scan is relying on checking the entire rip, not a tag, if I execute the scan again but understand if I do this it will take a longer time to scan.

[garym]

Those options are not what i was referring to and wouldnt select those without being clear what you are doing. For example i dont use either of those options. Im away from my windows computer so cant take any pictures of what im referring to.

[garym]

And is it telling you that you have 111 errors as in corrupted files or 111 albums with no accuraterip match.

[Fog_Chaser]

"111 Albums With Ripping Errors", "29 Albums Not Present in AccurateRIP"

[garym]

Hmmm. That’s disturbing that the company gave you rips that actually are errors, or at least one track on an album had an error.

if course there us error but also insecure which is not fully an error.

[schmidj]

Did the company that did the rips apply any editing/DSP? For instance, trim silence from the beginning and or end of the track, or apply (as opposed to just tagging) some form of gain adjustment, or decoding HDCD. Any such items will change the saved audio and therefore the checksum of the saved data and cause an "error" to be reported. But these are actually not errors, if applied correctly, as they were done on purpose.

[garym]

The 29 not present in AR is not unusual. Not all CDs are in AR database.

[Fog_Chaser]

The 111 Albums noted had certain tracks that showed errors. A lot of errors involved track 1 or 2 but not exclusively. As I have looked through the rips I'm beginning have some questions about how my job was handled regarding resurfacing discs, metadata, cover art and how discs that showed errors were handled.

[garym]

Yeah, I’d never have let anyone rip my CDs. Just making decisions regarding metadata tags almost always requires me to edit what the databases in the cloud provide. I ripped about 5,000 CDs…one at a time.

[GBrown]

Yeah, I’d never have let anyone rip my CDs. Just making decisions regarding metadata tags almost always requires me to edit what the databases in the cloud provide. I ripped about 5,000 CDs…one at a time.

Same here. Nobody was going to get the metadata on my 3k CD rips the way I want it. And odds are most aren't using AccurateRip to ensure the job is completed well.