Re: New CD Ripper user, setup questions
I believe MBID is a MusicBrainz ID that allows apps to be able to quickly lookup that album against MusicBrainz. Apps like KODI and MusicBrainz Picard rather than having to perform a TOC lookup.
HDCD and Pre-Emphasis CDs require special decoding to play back correctly, especially when streaming. HDCD discs can be identified post rip but you can't identify discs with Pre-emphasis so it's important to flag those during the ripping stage.
There's a bug (or a massive oversight) in CD Ripper where you NEED to enable the Track Technical column in the main CD Ripper display for these to be tagged, so make sure you do that.
You can have CD Ripper decode these CD's for you (add the HDCD dsp or leave the 'Apply De-Emphasis to CD tracks marked with Pre-Emphasis' selection enabled), but then you're left without a copy of the original CD so I prefer to make sure these options aren't selected and create these copies myself.
You may never encounter these discs as they're typically from the 80's and 90's, but if you think you may encounter them it's best to have the tags enabled.
Here's an non-exhaustive list of pre-emphasis and HDCD discs.
Artist sort tags will typically switch person names to "surname, lastname" and groups to "Beatles, The" whilst also replacing characters so they're easier to find in a list e.g. Pink instead of P!nk.
When browsing artists I prefer to use the Sort variant, just because it's what I'm used to, but have the proper name (firstname surname) displayed everywhere else.
There's absolutely a minimum set of tags you need, but it's really down to how you want to browse your collection, for me I also tag:
Just remember that it's much easier to strip out tags that you don't use than it is to add them to an existing collection.
I believe MBID is a MusicBrainz ID that allows apps to be able to quickly lookup that album against MusicBrainz. Apps like KODI and MusicBrainz Picard rather than having to perform a TOC lookup.
HDCD and Pre-Emphasis CDs require special decoding to play back correctly, especially when streaming. HDCD discs can be identified post rip but you can't identify discs with Pre-emphasis so it's important to flag those during the ripping stage.
There's a bug (or a massive oversight) in CD Ripper where you NEED to enable the Track Technical column in the main CD Ripper display for these to be tagged, so make sure you do that.
You can have CD Ripper decode these CD's for you (add the HDCD dsp or leave the 'Apply De-Emphasis to CD tracks marked with Pre-Emphasis' selection enabled), but then you're left without a copy of the original CD so I prefer to make sure these options aren't selected and create these copies myself.
You may never encounter these discs as they're typically from the 80's and 90's, but if you think you may encounter them it's best to have the tags enabled.
Here's an non-exhaustive list of pre-emphasis and HDCD discs.
Artist sort tags will typically switch person names to "surname, lastname" and groups to "Beatles, The" whilst also replacing characters so they're easier to find in a list e.g. Pink instead of P!nk.
When browsing artists I prefer to use the Sort variant, just because it's what I'm used to, but have the proper name (firstname surname) displayed everywhere else.
There's absolutely a minimum set of tags you need, but it's really down to how you want to browse your collection, for me I also tag:
- RipDate: I know most players support "recently added" but I quite often like to go further back than that. I typically browse this by YYYYMM.
- AlbumType: Studio, Best Of, Live, Soundtrack, Compilation e.t.c. If I'm listening casually I'll often choose a Compilation or Best Of, whereas if I'm going to sit down and listen to something it'll tend to be an Artists Studio album. I may go back at some point and align this with MusicBrainz definition but I defined these groupings before I really stated digging into MB.
- Original Date: I like to view an Artists Discography in the order that the albums were released (rather than reissue date or alphabetical) so have this tag set to the earliest release date.
- Remaster Date: I use this to identify remasters as I like to keep Album as just the name of the Album, I don't include 'Special Edition' (I put that in a RELEASE tag) or append a remaster date or anything like that.
Just remember that it's much easier to strip out tags that you don't use than it is to add them to an existing collection.
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