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CD Hardware/Software / Re: Ripping a CD - Clean vs Explicit, will it be "Accurately Ripped"?
Last post by anteater545 -
Quote from: korth on
If both versions have the same TOC and both are in the database then separate CRCs are stored.

"both are in the database" - referring to what exactly? What differentiates the two in the database if the TOC are the same? And I assume the CRC would be different, so is that the only way that the database knows they should be separate entries? I am ripping it as we speak, just don't want to contribute to wrong data in the database.
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CD Hardware/Software / Ripping a CD - Clean vs Explicit, will it be "Accurately Ripped"?
Last post by anteater545 -
I've ripped a CD of a specific album, and got everything accurately ripped and very confident of this.

However, upon loading the censored version of the disc, EAC assumed that this was the explicit disc because the track lengths etc are all the same. Before I rip this CD, isn't this going to give me problems saying that it is not accurately ripped? It never gave me the option to choose the metadata for a different version of the album.

Will it just say that the censored tracks are "Not verified" but "match XX other rips"? Therefore allowing me to be confident that it is in fact accurately ripped?
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FLAC / Re: FLAC files show duplicate tag
Last post by Case -
Metaflac shows you the correct information. I'm assuming the other tool you have tested filters away the extras as they have no values.

It was easy to introduce unwanted empty tags into FLAC files earlier when using the flac command line binary for encoding and tagging. It had a bug, or more like shortcoming, that it saved the given tag field name even if the tag field wasn't given any value to store. This was fixed some releases ago.

And having the same tag field multiple times is perfectly legal in the tagging system used by FLAC. It's the correct way to store multiple values for a single field. For example if your track had multiple artists they are supposed to be stored in their own "artist" fields.
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FLAC / FLAC files show duplicate tag
Last post by daveb30 -
Using metaflac command, "metaflac --show-all-tags".  There is a tag that is listed twice.  Also, only one of the tags has a value.  This seems to be the case for all of my flac files.  I ripped these with dBpoweramp and this was defined as a "custom" tag.
I can do the same command using exiftool, "exiftool --tag-all" and I only see the single tag, the one that has a value is the one listed.
Does anyone know why it might be listed twice using metaflac.  I thought metaflac would be the better tool since it is the "official" tool, at least I assume it is.  Exiftool will read flac files but will not write to them, so I wonder if I am getting a complete list from it.  But on the other hand how can a tag be duplicated; do they not need to be unique?
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Wiki Discussion / Best Practices for Music Storage - In-scope?
Last post by channel -
After some decades of digital music storage (files on a disk) I've come up with some best practices. I'd like to share my knowledge. Do you think it's appropriate on here?

Examples:

Software compatibility

Maximum folder size: Poorly made software may slow down to list files starting at around 100 folders or files in one folder. Most software, even Windows, doesn't like it when you have around 2000+ items in a single folder (not counting subfolders). For maximum speed, try not to have more than 500-1000 items at any one nest level. This issue is made worse on SAMBA/Windows type network shares.

File names: Some paths are ill-advised on most major operating systems. Others are incompatible with only some modern OSs. More information here (which can be copied to the hydrogenaudio wiki) https://github.com/beetbox/beets/blob/38c820901beb553a0657dd768c6212891b0a5989/beets/config_default.yaml#L57
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General Audio / Re: ReplayGain metadata formatting
Last post by bennetng -
Quote from: fooball on
Quote from: bennetng on
A quick check using a hex editor seems to show that foobar2000 only does the non-bold items.
...which was taken to mean you used a hex editor to create the listed malformations and ran them through FB2K.  That is what we found misleading, and the answers were therefore garbage in, garbage out.
You trimmed my full sentence when quoting. It is originally...
Quote from: bennetng on
Which software do the things in bold when writing files? A quick check using a hex editor seems to show that foobar2000 only does the non-bold items.
The trimmed part clearly means I did not want to create "simulated malformed files" by using a hex editor. What I originally asked for was something like an unpopular software player with a buggy RG tag scanner/writer.

Quote from: fooball on
Nobody is saying you posted a bug report
I am talking about the quote below:
Quote from: Case on
Now your clarifications make it sound like you claim that foobar2000 RG writing gets two points wrong.

[edit]
Just another example that my post was being misunderstood as a uBlock Origin issue:
https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,120956.msg997287.html#msg997287
Fortunately someone clarified it for me.