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In Reply to: RE: Easy tweak ...sonic benefit of which is significant posted by theob on April 07, 2012 at 05:12:44
hello, Ted! Hello, everybody, Just like You had suggested BEFORE, I tried to do the following:
I renamed all my 5 folders, containing my library and made an experimental 001 folder with only one album folder inside:
D:\001\Diana Krall\The Look Of Love. Started cmp with a single cue.
The quality gain was great.
But now to Your current tweak. Do I only have to point to drive C: or do I have to change the line for EVERY ONE of my 10 000 songs like below:
FILE "D:\RIP\CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL\1970 Cosmo's Factory\06 Run Through the Jungle.wav" WAVE
If that's the matter, I'm afraid this tweak is not for me, unless I'll reRIP all my library...
Serge.
But the tweak WILL WORK, especially, if You have cue files pointing to smth like Image.wav
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I'm afraid this tweak is not for me, unless I'll reRIP all my libraryYou don't need to re-rip any data to implement this routine though you do need to re-create your cuefiles to use the same routine as me. How long that would take obviously depends on how many albums you have but, for a thousand or less, I reckon it'd take a couple of hours including getting the hang of Al Jordan's CueSheetCreator.
But I really do owe grovelling apologies all round. There is another perfectly viable routine which I'd completely forgotten about which would at least allow you to try the idea at length without changing anything and may well be (as the adverts say) all you ever need.
Using cMP's Settings > Add/Remove Folders dialogue, temporarily clear the watched folders list then browse to and Add the folder - and only the folder - containing the target cuefile (and, of course, the music files though cMP doesn't see those). Repeat this every time you select an album.
If you don't have a relative cuefile in each album folder, CueSheetCreator can create them in, literally, minutes with almost no intervention. Point it to your music library's root folder, deselect "Use Custom Output Directory" and then hit "Process Library". You're done - a realtive cuefile in every folder. (To remove them, open a command window in the root directory and run: Del *.cue /s.)
Unlike the first routine I described, where you are copying the cuefile to where cMP expects to find it, you are instead pointing cMP to the cuefile. The effect is the same - cMP loads one and only one cuefile. The difference is that the second routine works fine on non-networked machines. Hair-shirt ones, even.
I'd be most grateful if someone could give it a try and report back any effect on SQ.
I used it to browse for music for at least a couple of years after cMP was published, having first spent several fruitless hours trying to make cMP's UI work with my library.
A friend for whom I built a cMP2 box has been using it ever since I handed over his system nearly three years ago and sees no reason to change. (His music is stored locally whereas mine is stored on a networked drive.)
HTH
Dave
Edits: 04/09/12 04/09/12
Hi all,
I did some tests on my (Atom-based, no-network, usb-soundcard) machine.
I used to load all cuefiles from the data-drive. Now i load individual cuefiles from CMP-drive, this turned out to be the best SQ, thanks guys!
in order from best sq to less good sq:
- single cuefile from cmp-drive
- all cuefiles from cmp-drive,
- single cuefile from data-drive
- all cuefiles from data-drive
I keep a backup of all music files in my desktop computer. The musicfile-drive has the same driveletter as the datadrive of the CMP-machine. I make the cuefiles on my desktop, and after that copy the cuefile to the cmp-drive.
Douwe
Just to explain my background on this saga, I started out putting all my cues onto a folder in my music drives. It sounded better than leaving all the cues on the music drive. Then I migrated to loading only one music drive per listening session after I took one of them off line (to load new music) and found out that sonics improved. So then after Douwe indicated that putting cues in a folder on the cmp drive was better yet I tried that and confirmed that yes this was better.So never one to leave well enough alone I tried organizing my cues into sub-folders then loading only 1 sub-folder onto my cmp drive per listening session. I did this with my favorites at 1st to see how having only 8 or so cue files on my cmp drive would sound compared to the the 300-400 cues I used to have when I loaded each of my music drives (5 all together). Doing this made a significant sonic improvement yet again. Maybe not as good as one cue on the cmp drive but certainly better than the 350 or so. Yes this means everytime I want a new group of 8 cues I have to shut down, pull out the cmp drive and load new cues. But since all of my drives are literally outside my cmp box this is not an issue. If anyone wants to try this remember you have to have cues loaded into another pc so you can access them at will. But the data disc since it contains 350 music files does not have to be reloaded.
Yes Dave your idea of 'putting all data on another computer then network everything' while loading one cue at a time is the best . My way is more complicated but results in approaching one cue file at a time on the cmp drive. And at least for me the loading of 8 cues at a time is not too cumbersome.
Why this makes such a big difference sonically is still not clear but it sure works good.
Edits: 11/03/12
Just tried it and it does improve sq significantly yet again. Thanks!
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