Great news that your new drive has done the job; a reliable drive makes ripping a large collection, immeasurably easier.
I'm sure you've configured the offset, if you are not already, let it rip at maximum speed!
Hopefully you have finished reading, and are now happily ripping your CD collection. Just in case you are not, I've pulled together a few things, that may help you achieve your goal, quicker.
Firstly, a good naming scheme. I tried working out this for myself, but in the end, took the great Tom Lehrer's advice, plagiarise!
So if you haven't settled on a naming scheme, do what I did, and use garym's!
[IFCOMP]Compilations\[album][IFMULTI]\Disc [disc][]\[track]-[title]-[artist][][IF!COMP][IFVALUE]album artist,[album artist],[artist][]\[album][IFMULTI]\Disc [disc][]\[track]-[title][]
This will deal with single, multi disc and Compilations, with very little user intervention. If you have found your own scheme, great!
Album Art.png
This Album Art screenshot shows the two sizes that I've set in the CD Ripper Options, 1000x1000 and 300x300. I settled on these because some players will not display larger files, and they give a good quality image.
If you do not like the album art offered to you, using a Google search on images, and adding fanart, 1024, or other popular image sizes, often offers, high quality, but sometimes very large images. Your settings will reduce these to a maximum of what you set.
By default, album art is embedded in each track. A popular choice, is to use a Folder.jpg, where you have one image, per disc. This is compatible with most apps, certainly Foobar. You have to set, Write to [output folder]\ AND, unless you want embedded and a Folder.jpg, In Write ID Tags, uncheck Album Art.
I settled on these settings after a month; I wish I had read up about them earlier. They work very well for me, but you are building a personal library, and your choices may be different.
Once set, these settings will apply to each rip. Once you know what you want, set and forget.
CD Ripper Metadata.jpg
The CD Ripper Metadata, screenshot, shows a lot of really useful information, and the left hand column, shows the preferences that I chose, before ripping disc 1, of the 1987, The Beatles, White Album.
Firstly, I hit the Captalize Tags - i've only just noticed that it says Captalize and not Capitalize! This capitalises, the first letter of each word and I believe that this is less wrong than using smart capitalisation, and gives a uniformed look. I use this for all naming, excepting stylised names, such as blink-182, and classical, where I prefer, i. Allegro con brio, than if it was all capitalised. These are purely personal preferences: the best advice I can offer, is to be consistent.
As you can see, the 4 providers have a few red highlights, where I have used different options:-
Artist - The Beatles, not Beatles, or even Beatles, The. In Windows, this shows as The Beatles, in Ts, but my player ignores "The", and displays as The Beatles, in Bs, which is my preference.
Album - The Beatles. I look at this as the correct album name, so don't mention "White Album", or Disc 1. I know that it is disc 1, from Disc - 1/2. If you have more than one mastering of an album, such as the 2007 remaster, or mono version, you will need to give them a unique name, such as The Beatles [Mono], to keep them separate.
Genre - Rock. This is my preference, but if you tag Genre, limiting the variations, searching by Genre, instantly becomes a very useful tool.
Year - 1968. My preference is for the albums original release year, which apart from multiple releases in a single year, allows the albums to be displayed chronologically. Adding month and date, appears to throw my player. Again this is purely a personal preference, and how my player works.
Disc - 1/2. This is disc 1 of a double CD set, if you use this convention, and if you tag disc 2, 2/2, with the exact same name for Artist and Album, The Beatles
From garym's naming string, and the above tags, you end up with a folder tree of:-
The Beatles
The Beatles
Disc 1 Disc 2
This also puts a Folder.jpg with album art up 1000x1000, 300x300, in each folder.
This may not be everyone's preference, but hopefully shows that with a good naming string, setting a few options, and with a bit of care and consistency with the metadata, a well organised library, isn't too difficult to achieve.
Even though as folders, you have a folder per disc, on most players, this would play disc 2 after disc 1, automatically.
This method also works exactly the same with sets with more than 2 discs, and Compilations. It is imperative to use exactly the same Album name for both compilations and multis, and exactly the same Artist name for multis, correctly populating the Disc numbers, 1/5, 2/5, 3/5, 4/5, 5/5, for a 5 CD set.
Hope this helps, and that others will add, correct, offer different or more elegant solutions, keeping information in fewer posts.
I haven't mentioned sort tags.....