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28-Nov-2014, 19:10
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Hi All
What tools/applications you use to:
- Manage your digital library?
- Lossless CD Ripping?
- House keeping tags and album art?
Please state Mac or PC
thanks
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28-Nov-2014, 19:22
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I have a Mac, and use: - Max or XLD for CD ripping
- Yate for tagging
- iTunes for library management
In the past I've also used Jaikoz for tagging, but got fed up with frequent upgrades that often "forgot" my preferences. Yate is a Mac-only program that's easier to use. There's some overlap with tagging features in both Max and iTunes, of course. I've also used CoverScout as a tool for finding cover art, but that's now covered by Yate.
Although I've listed iTunes as a library manager, I very rarely use it to play music from my library; I tend to do that almost exclusively through the Sonos UI. So in effect iTunes is not much more than a repository for the music files.
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(28-Nov-2014, 19:22)thumb5 Wrote: I have a Mac, and use:- Max or XLD for CD ripping
- Yate for tagging
- iTunes for library management
In the past I've also used Jaikoz for tagging, but got fed up with frequent upgrades that often "forgot" my preferences. Yate is a Mac-only program that's easier to use. There's some overlap with tagging features in both Max and iTunes, of course. I've also used CoverScout as a tool for finding cover art, but that's now covered by Yate.
Although I've listed iTunes as a library manager, I very rarely use it to play music from my library; I tend to do that almost exclusively through the Sonos UI. So in effect iTunes is not much more than a repository for the music files.
interesting, i will have a look on Yate. i currently use Kid3, it does the job, but is old fashioned and slow and i was trying to find a better alternative for Mac.
i assume that all your lossless library is ALAC to be able to use iTunes?
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Yes, sorry should have said: I rip everything to ALAC.
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(28-Nov-2014, 19:28)thumb5 Wrote: Yes, sorry should have said: I rip everything to ALAC.
lucky u i am stuck with a huge Flac library now and it is a tall order to encode everything to ALAC
Yate seems promising, thanks for the tip!
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I use XLD for ripping my CD's to AIFF, and converting FLAC files to AIFF.
For library management I use iTunes and Audirvana 2.04. Audirvana is not quite ideal for library management, but the sound quality is fantastic.
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(28-Nov-2014, 20:15)Eddye Wrote: I use XLD for ripping my CD's to AIFF, and converting FLAC files to AIFF.
For library management I use iTunes and Audirvana 2.04. Audirvana is not quite ideal for library management, but the sound quality is fantastic.
I use Phile Audio (a Mac only tool) to rip CD to Flac and i am wondering if i am missing anything by not using the popular XLD?
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I'm not familiar with Phile Audio. XLD is free, and it checks your CD rips in the accurate rip database.
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28-Nov-2014, 21:09
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Another vote for the excellent XLD for ripping and transcoding. EDIT: I use Metadatics for editing tags.
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