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Afew Items, CD Ripper suggestions
A few items: The first, I won't call a bug, but an annoyance in the ripper. If you have a CD with multiple genres on the CD and set them the way you want in the main ripping page at the top of the page, and then you open the "review metadata" window, and then close it by clicking on OK, it changes the genres all to one genre, even if there was no metadata recovered from one of the services. Trying to input let us say composers on the review metadata page shouldn't change the genres you have entered. Perhaps having a per track genre on the review page, as you do with artists and composers, would be worthwhile. I have a lot of albums with more than one genre, like mixed reggae and R&B or soca.
The second item is a wishlist for improved handling of metadata, possibly through DSP plug-ins. The ability to write the metadata to a file or spreadsheet for external use ( I have a Access database of my record library, and that would be an ideal way to update it as I make new purchases), and then to be able to use that data to repopulate the metadata entries if you have to rip the CD again, similar to getting the data from CD Text or from a permanent version of the cache.
The next is also metadata related and similar: To be able to recover (other than by cutting and pasting) the tags on files previously ripped, to reuse them when re-ripping. I have about 2000 CD's ripped using Winamp to M4A's. I am reripping them with DBPA to FLAC and then replacement M4A's They are mostly from the Caribbean and not in any of the databases supported by DBPA. I entered metadata in when I ripped them before, which was submitted to Gracenotes but is now inaccessible to me now except in Windows Explorer. I loathe having to manually reenter all that data.
Finally, the cache or DBPA should remember metadata you have entered if you remove the CD and re-insert it while entering metadata before ripping. Often I am entering data and go to insert the year, and realize the only copyright notice with the year is on the CD itself, inside the drive. If I take it out to get the date, I have to start over again with the metadata. Possibly a "save metadata for later use" checkbox if you remove a CD before ripping it?
BTW, You have by far the best product out there, and one of the few that has any real free support on line or in any form. I really appreciate your efforts.
The second item is a wishlist for improved handling of metadata, possibly through DSP plug-ins. The ability to write the metadata to a file or spreadsheet for external use ( I have a Access database of my record library, and that would be an ideal way to update it as I make new purchases), and then to be able to use that data to repopulate the metadata entries if you have to rip the CD again, similar to getting the data from CD Text or from a permanent version of the cache.
The next is also metadata related and similar: To be able to recover (other than by cutting and pasting) the tags on files previously ripped, to reuse them when re-ripping. I have about 2000 CD's ripped using Winamp to M4A's. I am reripping them with DBPA to FLAC and then replacement M4A's They are mostly from the Caribbean and not in any of the databases supported by DBPA. I entered metadata in when I ripped them before, which was submitted to Gracenotes but is now inaccessible to me now except in Windows Explorer. I loathe having to manually reenter all that data.
Finally, the cache or DBPA should remember metadata you have entered if you remove the CD and re-insert it while entering metadata before ripping. Often I am entering data and go to insert the year, and realize the only copyright notice with the year is on the CD itself, inside the drive. If I take it out to get the date, I have to start over again with the metadata. Possibly a "save metadata for later use" checkbox if you remove a CD before ripping it?
BTW, You have by far the best product out there, and one of the few that has any real free support on line or in any form. I really appreciate your efforts.
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