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Good to hear you are on track. ;)

For me, this is the key reason to use FLAC (and one that many do not seem to understand, until they have file corruption issues and then it is too late).

Nice summary. Thanks.

Some don't use this tag. For many, use of ALBUM ARTIST is more important in the case of albums with differing artists (what some would call a compilation)

not sure. I use "facets" as my interface with foobar2000 and I have a column where I can show compilations (or not), so I can see that it is picking up my compilation tag and listing albums...

might work, but I'd fix if it was me. COMPILATION tag field either should exist with a value of "1" or not exist at all.

correct.

Can't recall if one can copy from existing tag to correct tag field with dbpa. But in any case, with mp3tag, one can easily batch copy from your existing disc tags into these correct tags with a...

1. I know that each CD ripping program is written differently. I am also aware that some CD ripping programs use different meta data tags and settings such as Artist, Album, and Genre. Now if I...

I'd forgotten that dbpa can create a playlist file for the album. Like you, I see zero use for this as a "playlist". If I want to play the entire album, I simply browse to (or search for) the album...

dozens (hundreds?) of programs can create .m3u playlist files. I just used foobar2000 as an example of what I use. I also use my LMS server to create playlists. Regarding "what is a playlist".........

@schmidj is always a fantastic source of technical information!

I'm not sure I understand the question. I sometimes make playlists, but they have nothing to do with dbpoweramp. I make them in my music servers/players (for me either LMS or foobar2000). I don't...

@Spoon's explanation.
https://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthread.php?35498-DSP-Effect-Karaoke

and I think he means it should leave OUT the voice and smaller instruments.

Excellent!

p.s. I too treat my CDs and vinyl well. Oddly, I've always been more likely to have trouble ripping a brand new CD, never played, just placed in drive to rip right out of the new...

I'm speaking of a normal rip of a CD. I'm not sure how the Karaoke DSP works. It must somehow use some sort of AI to try to eliminate voices. And I suppose we could say the same thing about other...

Yes. Identical if ripped to FLAC. Doesn't matter whether it is Windows (any version), Mac, etc. Doesn't matter what sort of computer hardware or type of drive. If these things changed the zeros...

Yes, when you rip a CD from a disk and create FLAC files, you have a bitperfect copy of the CD. Almost any optical drive will do a good job of this. That's the true benefit of dbpoweramp as a...

If two different drives exhibit this same error, I doubt it is the drives themselves. More likely something in your windows settings related to the drive that is blocking the reading of info from the...

I assumed the OP has these 160k files in lots of different subfolders (e.g., ARTIST and ALBUM), but is selecting the top directory (and including all the lower subdirectories) in order to convert...

It can process a lot, maybe even 160k. But my recollection is that it takes quite a while to start processing the files after you start processing. Are you giving it enough time to start. Try to...

Yes, and of course the key to keeping one's music collection safe, is a good set of backups, preferable stored at more than one location and stored in a way that is not permanently connected to a...

the short answer is no. And are you even converting to Monkey's Audio? (not that this changes my answer)

see this picture:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/3ly26ndlh6h4lxx/Capture.PNG?dl=0

Tim, No need to rerip. You can use dbpa to convert FLAC to FLAC (5), with the tags and naming copying over automatically. A few mouse clicks, run overnight and done! Because all is lossless, FLAC...