[geeks] music collection flac and mp3 by device

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

> On 30 Sep 2016, at 14:28 PM, Phil Stracchino <phils at caerllewys.net> wrote:
>
> On 09/30/16 14:15, Nathan Raymond wrote:
>> Regarding what Picard doesn't have, you can join their community (I did)
>> and now when I rip an album that is not in their database (which is rare),
>> I scan the artwork and submit the tracks to the database, and pretty much
>> right away the Picard app will pick up the new entry and use it. I feel
>> better about that than if I just one-off manually entered the metadata
just
>> locally for my own purposes alone.
>
> Yeah, I always submitted any new CDs I rip with Grip to freedb.  (And
> corrections to existing ones where there's errors in the freedb data.)
> But I can't right now because bitrot has crept into Grip's CD-metadata
> editing pane, and I haven't been able to figure out what's going wrong
> with Grip's GTK+ interface because GDB Insight is broken with current
> versions of tcl and hasn't been updated, and b&.

Wellb& I ended up going with beets audio, a python program that caters to my
OCD better than anything else I found. Awesome music library manager, and one
of its features is easy conversion.

I have gotten so I use lossless audio on my portables: iPhone and an old 160GB
iPod. They can only play 24-bit, 96KHz audio but thatbs good enough for all
but the highest dynamic range and complexity.

Even though I canbt currently afford high end audio gear, I still want to
keep my masters at best quality since storage is cheap, and I can easily
transcode to whatever I need.