Hi-Rez Highway

New high resolution SACD releases, players and technology.

Use this form to submit comments directly to the Asylum moderators for this forum. We're particularly interested in truly outstanding posts that might be added to our FAQs.
You may also use this form to provide feedback or to call attention to messages that may be in violation of our content rules.

You must login to use this feature.

Inmate Login

By default, logging in will set a session cookie that disappears when you close your browser. Clicking on the 'Remember my Moniker & Password' below will cause a permanent 'Login Cookie' to be set.

Moniker/Username: The Name that you picked or by default, your email. Forgot Moniker?	Examples "Rapper", "Bob W", "joe@aol.com".
Password:	Forgot Password?
	Remember my Moniker & Password ( What's this?)

If you don't have an Asylum Account, you can create one by clicking Here.

Our privacy policy can be reviewed by clicking Here.

Inmate Comments

From:
Your Email:
Subject:

Message Comments

Original Message

RE: Classical metadata - agreed

Posted by PAR on November 23, 2019 at 16:04:14:
Downloading or ripping CDs requires a discipline for metadata that it is best to adopt from day one. Going back to refit metadata by amending ID3 files is a frustrating process and I would not like to try this with a collection of thousands of albums.

The difficulty with classical music seems not to lie fundamentally with those who have created the original metadata file ( normally the record label for downloads) but the designers of software players who still cater only for pop/rock music fans by only displaying album, artist and track information even though other fields such as composer exist completed in the metadata that is embedded in the file. The concept of "work" or "act"(for opera) is , nevertheless, still not properly dealt with. In regard to the latter I am pleased that Qobuz is dealing with the issue but only for the streaming side of things as that is where they are able to control things.

I have noticed some improvement to the accuracy of what is provided though. It instructive to use Perfect Tunes via dbpower amp when ripping and to compare the results for albums released in the last two years compared to those that came out five years ago or longer.

The new Roon Valence software seems to offer a good solution too if it lives up to the promises.

Anyway for the time being one has to be prepared to put some effort into cleaning up metadata or finding a work around to introduce useful information into a player format that does not cater for it. For example adding the name of the composer before a track title where the album consists of works by various composers.