And how cavalier one is with the program. No doubt, it’s very powerful and will do what it’s instructed to do and yet it’s not perfect.
It has a no-touch ‘here’s what I’m going to do’ mode that is strongly recommended, or better yet, run it against a backup copy of music files. We all have a backup copy or two right?!
Yes, there are many variables and many opportunities to do harm.
In 2006 I spent four months of every waking hour sitting by my computer ripping cd’s. I learned early to have multiple backups. I have everything backed up on at least five hard drives, many shut off until updated. I also have a second home where I keep multiple copies as well. You can try anything with your collection as long as you have multiple backups. And if all your backups are connected at all times to the internet, you are going to end up sad some day.
My thoughts at least.
Four months. Wow.
It totally sucked. But.I.wanted.it.done.
Yikes!
Yes multiple stand alone back-ups are key. I did not spend every waking moment burning my CD library. All and all it took in excess of 18 months. Some CDs copy and rip easy, and as others have stated some are a B**ch! I most likely have 600 hours of ripping done and still going as I add to my collection. All of a sudden streaming is appealing.
Now I am going through my record library, cleaning, cataloging, and archiving in rice paper sleeves and mylar jackets. The cataloging includes verifying the release by dead wax inscription. Ultimately eliminating duplicate copies. Of the 10,000 LPs (MOL) I have about 60 -65% complete. Reflecting back on it CD ripping seem to be a walk in the park. And no I don’t want a Kirmuss ultrasonic record cleaner with the 30-35 minute cleaning process.
I could not do what you guys did/do. That’s so much time.
I am doing the same archiving. I am also scanning covers, sleeves, booklets, labels, every bit of art that comes with my records and cd’s. Then I open photoshop and clean all the images. I grab as much info as I can and then I post it all on the internet. I was spending four hours a day doing that until I started buying all this gear. Now I spend that time sitting in this chair listening to music and planning my weekly purchase of new gear.
Wait, this almost sounds wrong… hmmmm.
(Good thing I am retired)
Try a month of Roon for free and you will like Tidal and/or Qobuz much more. I believe Roon is the gateway drug to streaming for life and combining a static downloaded library.
thanks!
I have an aversion to purchasing another program to do what a purchased piece of equipment should do but may eventually have to succumb.
Paul Taylor who wrote SongKong also has an application called Jaikoz that’s more “one album at a time” oriented. I used this to enhance the metadata of 3,500 previously ripped albums when I acquired my Aurender server. I also have SongKong but found it a bit hit and miss. You want to work on a copy of your files in a temp directory in case it goes haywire. Melco however bundle it as a value add for their server I believe.
As a gadget addict / early adopter I’ve ripped my library 3 times. First time was 128 kbit MP3 for an Archos player that predates the iPod. Then 256 kbit AAC for an iTunes+ like sound and then finally FLAC for my Squeezebox…
Another upside of Roon is that it replaces all your “scruffy” metadata and album art with really rich (and mainly correct) metadata. However some people prefer their own, especially with the Classical music genre.
At that rate, I would be able to rip about 21,500 cds. You must have an enormous library.
I tell my audio friends that expecting an audio hardware provider to produce a good gui interface is the equivalent of asking Dell to replace Microsoft OS. Roon makes every other interface look clunky and outdated. I have an auralic aries g1 and the lighting interface is decent but Roon crushes it as a library system. @Paul has admitted in other posts that creating a good gui with the Octave server was very hard to do. Roon has a 5 to 7 year head start on developing a more robust system than anyone else out there.
I get that but there are several comments regarding ROON stepping on the sound in some fashion.
You are fortunate to have a library of exceedingly easy CDs to rip, and are satisfied with automatically populated metadata.
I was unaware of Jaikoz. I will take a look. Thanks for the mention!
Auralic have been going longer than Roon. Both are very robust. I moved from Auralic to Roon, but preferred Lightning for a single endpoint system. However, I have 3 endpoints so Roon is a non-brainer. I also spent some years using the Qobuz OSX app, which is fantastic.
Every GUI takes a few years to debug and refine, expect Octave to be no different.
Good points. Patience is a virtue that is too often forgotten in our immediate gratification world.