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Mass conversion of CD Collection - Final advice needed before I start&

Reply #25 –
Quote from: pdq on
For classical I have a folder for each composer, then a folder for each piece, then a file for each movement.

Classical music indeed needs a different approach since different releases from the same movements and such appear. So pdq, you order the pieces by composer ? And so you split albums with one performer playing music from different composers to the composer/piece/movement -folder ?
I rip the movements to one track; so Vivaldi - Four seasons has four tracks, but I could play the individual parts by cuesheet.

Mass conversion of CD Collection - Final advice needed before I start&

Reply #26 –
No organizational approach is perfect with respect to classcal music. I have problems when I have more than one version of a particular piece.

However, when I am browsing for something to listen to, I am more interested in listening to something by a particular composer than something performed by a particular orchestra or soloist, so that is the way that I organize things.

In pop and rock it is much simpler because a song is most often written by a member of the group that performs it, so my top structure is by group. The only equivalent in classical would be something like Stravinsky conducts Stravinsky.

Mass conversion of CD Collection - Final advice needed before I start&

Reply #27 –
Quote from: pdq on
However, when I am browsing for something to listen to, I am more interested in listening to something by a particular composer than something performed by a particular orchestra or soloist, so that is the way that I organize things.

In pop and rock it is much simpler because a song is most often written by a member of the group that performs it, so my top structure is by group.

So in this case I should have Vivaldi\Four Seasons\ 1997 - Fabio Biondi and Vivaldi\Four Seasons\ 2001 - Janine Jansen.. I'll ive it a try.

Pop and rock are simpler indeed. My top structure is Artist. Genre can be chosen by tag via Foobar.


Quote from: pdq on
However, when I am browsing for something to listen to, I am more interested in listening to something by a particular composer than something performed by a particular orchestra or soloist, so that is the way that I organize things.

In pop and rock it is much simpler because a song is most often written by a member of the group that performs it, so my top structure is by group.

So in this case I should have Vivaldi\Four Seasons\ 1997 - Fabio Biondi and Vivaldi\Four Seasons\ 2001 - Janine Jansen.. I'll ive it a try.

Pop and rock are simpler indeed. My top structure is Artist. Genre can be chosen by tag via Foobar.

Mass conversion of CD Collection - Final advice needed before I start&

Reply #28 –
I'm glad I found this thread because I'm planning on doing the same thing. I only have a few questions. I bought a 1TB external hard drive and plan to keep all my music there. Should I also make cd copies as well and if so should I burn them as a regular music cd or as a data disc? If I should do this, how often do I need to make cd backups?  BTW, I am planning on saving just the lossless wav files and then should I need to convert to flac or mp3 for some reason, I can do that. Is that a good idea?

Randy

Mass conversion of CD Collection - Final advice needed before I start&

Reply #29 –
Quote from: Randy G on
I'm glad I found this thread because I'm planning on doing the same thing. I only have a few questions. I bought a 1TB external hard drive and plan to keep all my music there. Should I also make cd copies as well and if so should I burn them as a regular music cd or as a data disc? If I should do this, how often do I need to make cd backups?  BTW, I am planning on saving just the lossless wav files and then should I need to convert to flac or mp3 for some reason, I can do that. Is that a good idea?

Randy

Whatever you do, do NOT back up your ripped music as music CDs. Error recovery is extremely poor, which is why so much effort goes into getting error-free rips in the first place.

You could save the files as data CDs, but these days DVDs are more economical. There have been recent threads in which there were many opinions about the best way to back up your collection, with some people recommending hard drives over optical media, and some even going as far as RAID or duplicate drives.

Mass conversion of CD Collection - Final advice needed before I start&

Reply #30 –
any good threads with dvdisaster (or how to use that and how to use that in the most economical way)?
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Mass conversion of CD Collection - Final advice needed before I start&

Reply #31 –
Quote from: smok3 on
any good threads with dvdisaster (or how to use that and how to use that in the most economical way)?


I can't see depending on hard disks for secure, long-term storage. I've just seen too many of them fail or be damaged from physical shock.

I'm thinking of storing things on a hard disk for ready access, with lossless audio, ripper logs, and CUE files on DVDs stored in a dark, cool, and dry environment. I'd make multiple copies of each backup DVD, possibly removing the backups offsite.

Very soon now, blueray burners will be cheap so maybe that could be a storage option, too. Right now I'm planning on using DVD+R DL

For my usual listening collection (right now I have a 6G ipod that can't run rockbox (or flac) yet), I'd just transcode maxed out VBR mp3s or ALAC files and stick em on the ipod.

And of course all of this would be cataloged somehow so I can find the right DVD if needed and the source of the audio.