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RE: Questions

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Digitising a CD collection is time-consuming and can, for high-end audio at least, be complex. I would urge that you:

1. do it on a separate computer to your audio PC and copy the files over (perhaps on a USB drive) when they are ready. You will invest a lot of time in this process. Believe me, once is enough. Obviously, always keep a backup;

2. decide before processing in bulk what data format you want (wav or flac, one-file-per-CD, one-file-per-track, with or without cuesheets (needed for cPlay) etc, etc. Do a few CDs and trial them until you are sure you have what you want. Trawl the net and this site for help;

3. decide what info you want in filenames and tags. It is not (again, trust me) good for morale to have to edit hundreds or thousands of files because you made an over-hasty choice;

4. Freedb and the like are really essential but the information is not always accurate or well presented. If that matters to you, be prepared to spend time editing. Free or shareware utililties such as “Bulk File Renamer” and “Tag and Rename” can be useful;

5. On your audio PC, keep the OS separate from your music data on a small, separate partition (about 10GB?). Make an ‘image’ of that partition using a utility such as Snapshot (my choice), Ghost or whatever. If (when) you make an error that kills the OS, you can then fix it in minutes. (That’s a good tip for any Windoze install, BTW. Can’t speak for Linux or OSX);

6. It is not necessary to do all (or even any) of cics’ recommended config changes all at once. Do some, try them for a day or two, update your image file and do more at your leisure. The effort is well worth it.

Hope that helps.



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