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advice before I begiin the big convert and re-tag effort

#1

HI,

I’m new to your site and your program. I have about 10k wave tracks in an utter case of different and confusing nameing / taging. I kept files as waves as I am a little freakish about maintiaining excellent audio quality and stage of the music.

So call me slow but, its high time to convert to either flac or ogg, in to quality and large file configuration. I also have to correct , identify in some cases and rename / re tag these tracks.

BEing a newbie, I would very much appreciate advice as to workflow plan to proeprly do this danting job.

Thanks in advance.

#2

Well everyone has different idea of what is ‘Correct’ so I would recommend running Jaikoz Autocorrect on a smallish and mangeable set of files (perhaps about 200 files) and then review the changes Jaikoz has made. Remember no chnages are actually made to the hard disk unless you elect to ‘Save Changes’, and you can always revert changes to selected files.

This should throw out any things you are not happy about before going any further and you can ask further questions on the forum

#3

thanks. good plan. What I’m wondering is
WHich is the best codec to maintain audiophile quality without casuing future problems FLAC I’m guessing
2. I’m planning on using dbpoeramp to convert and wondering if I should convert befrore retaging, so I create a new FLAC collectionand never endanger my orignal waves?
3. Now into if then answers…Any big tips for the retaging renaming. I’m following the list of responses to best taging

  1. Best adviice for segregating my playlists. in a separate disk or directory from main database.

ANy other smart advice so I have thsi be a one timebig job.

thanaks again

  1. should make the conversion to the new codec. FLAC, is this the besty choice to maintian audiophile quality,m
#4

[quote=kmlevine]thanks. good plan. What I’m wondering is
WHich is the best codec to maintain audiophile quality without casuing future problems FLAC I’m guessing
2. I’m planning on using dbpoeramp to convert and wondering if I should convert befrore retaging, so I create a new FLAC collectionand never endanger my orignal waves?
3. Now into if then answers…Any big tips for the retaging renaming. I’m following the list of responses to best taging

  1. Best adviice for segregating my playlists. in a separate disk or directory from main database.

ANy other smart advice so I have thsi be a one timebig job.

thanaks again

  1. should make the conversion to the new codec. FLAC, is this the besty choice to maintian audiophile quality,m [/quote]

These are my opinions. Another forum I like to ask audio questions is hydrogenaudio.org.

  1. Really, just about any lossless format is as good as another. Since it is lossless you can always convert to something else. Differences lie in support amongst hardware and software. FLAC is the bog standard for lossless, but you could try ALAC (Apple Lossless) if you have an iPod or iPhone.

  2. Since WAVs don’t really have tags, you don’t lose much of anything by converting then tagging.

  3. Tips for segregating files? If you can, as you convert, store the FLACS to a different drive than the originals. about teh best tip I can come up with.