Re: When you rip Vinyl records to FLAC how do differentiate them from CD rips?
Reply #28 – 2022-01-17 14:57:05
So I use ALBUMVERSION. Both for different CD masterings and for different media sources. Of course, if you don't care to type up different masterings with versions like "1999 remaster dynamic range=2" in folder name, and you only have CD rips, digitized vinyl and purchases ... here you can be a bit fancy if you like. * EAC and dBpoweramp and CUERipper would get you the CDDB disc id in some tag name. EAC uses <DISCID> I think, dBpoweramp uses <CDDB DISC ID>. * The CDDB ID is eight characters (hexadecimal: 0 through F). * OK, you got eight characters. "vinylrip" is eight characters. "download" is eight, "AmazonDL" is eight, "iTunesDL" is eight, "googleDL" is eight (yes I know Google music is shut down), "artistDL" is eight, "Bandcamp" is eight. And none of these are hex numbers. Edit: "cassette" is eight too So if you want to avoid collisions between an album and a CD single of the album title track etc., you can use these eight characters at the end of the folder name. You might get clashes if you have multiple versions of the same album, but rarely. YMMV. I was thinking in including the dynamic range inside the FLAC files. I think I can have a custom tag like ALBUMDR and another tag named TRACKDR. ALBUMDR is the DR value (average) for the entire album, and TRACKDR is the value for a single FLAC file.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Analyzed: Aerosmith / Artist: Aerosmith ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DR Peak RMS Duration Title [codec] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DR11 -2.13 dB -14.16 dB 3:39 01 - Make It [flac] DR10 -2.71 dB -14.54 dB 3:45 02 - Somebody [flac] DR10 -1.62 dB -14.85 dB 4:25 03 - Dream On [flac] DR11 -1.30 dB -13.87 dB 7:00 04 - One Way Street [flac] DR11 -1.32 dB -14.45 dB 4:25 05 - Mama Kin [flac] DR10 -2.81 dB -14.61 dB 4:09 06 - Write Me a Letter [flac] DR11 -1.40 dB -14.49 dB 5:00 07 - Movin' Out [flac] DR11 -0.93 dB -15.40 dB 3:12 08 - Walkin' the Dog [flac] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Number of files: 8 Official DR value: DR11 Sampling rate: 44100 Hz Average bitrate: 819kbs Bits per sample: 16 bit Dr14 T.meter 1.0.16 ============================================================================================== ALBUMDR=DR11, then for TRACKDR I set a different value depending on the track/ This would allow me to sort albums based on dynamic range. I think it's a little bit time consuming in adding all the values but I think it also worth it.