Tips for a Personal Music Archive

[Jordan Gunderson]

Nicholas Leippe wrote:
> I have my own custom script for ripping & encoding.
> I rip each cd twice, once each from two different drives, and compare them.
> I have calculated the offsets of each drive and use the -O flag on cdparanoia.
> Since I have two drives, and two cpus, I wrote it to do all five tasks at once 
> in a pipeline fashion--2 ripping, 1 diffing, and 2 encoding simultaneously.
> 
> You might be able to find the offset for your drive from the database here:
> 
> http://accuraterip.com/driveoffsets.htm
> 
> The offset for cdparanoia is the accuraterip offset plus 6.
> The cdparanoia docs say that it works with negative offsets, but I've found 
> this to not be the case--so if your drive has a negative offset, you're out 
> of luck with cdparanoia.
> 
> If you want to calculate your drive's offset, I'd be happy to tell you how.
> 
> Nick


Hi Nick et al,

Would you mind sharing your script?  I'd like a way to detect (and mark) 
files that have skips, etc.  I need this (sadly) help me determine which 
CDs I need to purchase again.

Also, is your approach duplicable with one drive by just ripping twice, 
or does that defeat the point?

I'll probably use Oggify once quality Flac files are created so I can 
have different versions for streaming, loading onto different players, 
and so forth.

Does anyone have any advice relating to cleaning (and prepping) the 
discs before they are ripped (or reripped)?  Does that stuff you smear 
around on the surface work, and if so, where might I find it?

Also, does anyone have any tips for associating "metadata" with the 
files?  I'd be interested in being able to associate user ratings, 
tagging, etc. to the files --like marking a track as damaged, 4-star, 
Brazilian, child-safe, etc.

Thanks again for all your input.

Jordy