Using tags for different search criteria?

[Northcoast Jim]

I am ripping all of our CDs to AIFF in preparation for an EverSolo Streamer/DAC. Our library is eclectic: ranging from classical to show tunes, folk dance, international, new age, etc. These different genres need different search criteria eg. by composer for classical, by country for international folk...

[RetroBurner]

Good morning! I have spent a great deal of time ripping all of my old CDs, but now it's time to sit down and actually start tagging them. What are the best practices for tagging music files? Can anyone here recommend a comprehensive, standardized style guide for creating music tags? Whenever I pull...

[seanbob]

When using AccurateRip to write tags to my existing files (FLAC, if it matters), unrelated metadata is being updated unexpectedly. I'm seeing two unique behaviors:

1) Renames -- %DISC% is being renamed to %DISCNUMBER%. If a %DISCNUMBER% tag already exists, it adds a second (duplicate) tag...

[bettersound99]

I've been away from the forums for a while, so apologies if this topic has been discussed, searches for the CD name and simple variations came up empty. When ripping this CD, none of the displayed metadata information is in English, everything (track titles, everything) is in Asian characters. Ripped...

[MarkSealey]

CD Ripper in Release 2024-05-30 (6) on macOS 13.6.7.

I want to default to MusicBrainz for retrieved metadata. For batch ripping on multiple drives, usually. But potentially always.

Is this the best practice, please:

1. Is it safe/best practice simply to uncheck everything e

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[jrk-sc]

Hi All,

I understand the concept that to pull metadata from a CDDB, a short segment of each track is read to create a "unique" identifier for each CD. (If that is not conceptually correct, what is correct?)

Given that each CD has a dynamically created (allegedly unique)...

[jrk-sc]

Hi All,

Is there any way to view ALL metadata before ripping a CD? I would like to be able to see, review, and edit/delete any/all tags supplied the various sources used. (And, it would be nice to be able to identify the source of garbage tags, too!)

The reason I ask, is that...

[vespa69]

I have three albums by P.M. Dawn and when added to my Synolgy NAS , Asset cannot scan them , I have reset and rescan and the problem persists ,
The logs have this message , [11:44:06] Getting tags from: /volume1/music/P.M. Dawn/Of The Heart, Of The Soul And Of The Cross- The Utopian Experience/12...

[yevster]

So most track titles in the classical music world are something like this:

"Eine Alpensinfonie, op. 64: Sonnenaufgang"

Typically, the thing before the ":" (or some other delimiter) is the work name, and the thing after is the movement name. The work name...

[belinea2010]

If i hover my mouse over a known 32 bit float wav file the dbPoweramp info box its displayed showing the various atributes of the file.
Things such as:
Type:
Size:
Length:
Channels:
Sample Rate:

and importantly for me
Sample Size:

as...

[miggs]

The tag for Catalogue numbers and barcode in CD Ripper does seem to work across different apps. Other apps show these files as empty/blank.

CD Ripper uses - Catalog *(hash)
MusicBrainz uses - Catalogue Number
Audio Ranger uses - Catalogue Number
Swinsain uses - Catalogue...

[miggs]

I am trying to rip 2 versions of Marvin Gaye - The Very best of Marvin Gaye.
One is a single disc 22 track version distributed by Polydor 1994. One is a 2 disc 21 track version distributed by MasterSong 2006.

What is the best way to rip them?

If I rip them with both...

[mlknez]

I rip my Atmos audio-only files to .thd files (Dolby True-HD 16-channel lossless). These are not taggable. I would like to convert them (non-lossless and keeping all channels/objects/metadata) to something taggable such as .m4a or .mka that would maintain the full audio and metadata. How would i...

[Cushions]

I got dbpoweramp for the first time a few weeks ago.

I have been ripping CDs successfully until this morning. I put in a CD (live recording, limited release) very recently made by an artist which had no metadata. A box automatically came up to search for the data, using the artist and...

[geogherkins]

What's wrong here? No match on copied URL from musicbrainz on Manual Metadata Search.



No metadata found, press Alt+N for Manual Metadata Search
Manual Metadata form is open with "No Results Found"
Copy URL from MusicBrainz to clipboard
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