vavan
Senior Member
JRiver as a last resort (
act as VST Hosts
Btw recently jriver implemented vst3 support
JRiver as a last resort (
act as VST Hosts
I wonder if it was ever resolved?That was from 2018 too.
I wonder if it was ever resolved?
If the 16/44.1 files are the FLAC-compressed ones, does that not represent ~ 70% of your collection? Or are there WAV files if you scrolled further down the list? Also curious how much disk space the 35K FLAC files occupy, and how much the 50K overall? That is a collection of impressive size. I have collected a large number of CDs over the years (though they surely amount to fewer tracks than you have), but am reluctant to put in much time ripping them partly because of how much disk space they may occupy, but mostly because the availability of low-cost music streaming services makes ripping my own CDs seem like poor use of time and effort. I have only managed to rip about 300 CDs over the past five years or soBut I guess I won't stress because of that : 16/44.1 files account for more than 99% of my 50K audio files, as they surely do for most if not all of you.
True, that. I probably have enough disk space, or can buy more. It is not only the five minutes to rip each CD, but also the time spent in correcting the metadata tags. In earlier years, I used ExactAudioCopy software to rip, but did not subscribe to the music tagging service they could link to. As a result, all of those files are listed as "Track 1", "Track 2", ... and I have to perhaps redo all of those. In the past couple of years, I have been using Windows Media Player to rip to FLAC, and it does tag the files without charging for GraceNote or such, but the tagging is imperfect. Especially with multi-disc sets such as some "Best Of" collections. I have been making corrections manually, which is really time-consuming. I guess I should spend some time to find good software that will recognize the music files correctly and create the metadata tags from free and accurate internet databases.Disk space is cheap, it's really about your time spent, as you mention.
Things might have changed since I used it. Will check into it again, thanks.I also used EAC and it looked up the metadata with a free service, I forgot the name.
Just wanted to add a note: I remembered that REW doesn't create FIR filters, so I would need to use different software for that. I did run across Eclipse Audio FIR Designer: https://eclipseaudio.com.au/fir-designer/I'm thinking that because of all of the complexity of doing this in software, with EQ from the music player only vs system-wide and tradeoffs either way, one could just skip all of that and do it via a miniDSP 2x4 HD. Now, everything going to the speakers will get EQ no matter what you're doing and it will always work from power on without clicking or changing anything.
Just go from there to your amp.
I haven't done that yet but it's looking like the KISS option. Especially as I already have REW setup. Am I wrong?
For the record I also use Foobar2000 with WASAPI.
That was from around 2006-2016. I haven't used it since. A service that you could set loose on your collection would be a good idea if you already have files.
Thanks for the tip! I will take a look at it.https://picard.musicbrainz.org/
I ran it on around 500GB of old mostly untagged rips and was quite happy with the result.
Yes, I already got that you are painstakingly thorough when it comes to music playback at the very least, just from your persistence in getting to the bottom of the Fletcher-Munson curves in order to EQ for loudness. I can believe the tags give you total control in finding anything in your music collection. None of the streaming services offer such comprehensive metadata, not even Primephonic. You've certainly got my respect for the single-minded dedication you put into the conversion project for that many years. Those filled bookshelves are impressive in their own way.Well, I'm... happy to have scared you, I guess ?
Of course, ripping such a big collection is not for everybody. I was young and reckless at the time, and streaming services weren't as developed as they are today. I totally understand people paying 10 bucks a month for Spotify & co.. But I'm so happy to have on my hard drive the exact equivalent, bit per bit, of all my physical CDs ! That is quite satisfactory, and it contributes to the global pleasure. Plus of course I don't depend on an Internet connection. And I have backups, obviously.
Yes, the tags may seem overkill, but they help me a lot too. It would be long to explain, but you can imagine what you can do with so many tags.
Anyway, despite being a bit off-topic, I hope my reply to you will at least show some people here that I'm really serious about audio stuff, and that if I'm willing to go to great lengths in order to find the right EQ, or the right ASIO4ALL or equivalent for my headphone setup, it will still be NOTHING compared to the time that I've already spent on audio stuff.
I'm not hoping for any praises for that, I'm not here for that. Maybe just a little bit of respect from a few people here, and we'll be all right.
Well, I'm... happy to have scared you, I guess ?
Of course, ripping such a big collection is not for everybody. I was young and reckless at the time, and streaming services weren't as developed as they are today. I totally understand people paying 10 bucks a month for Spotify & co.. But I'm so happy to have on my hard drive the exact equivalent, bit per bit, of all my physical CDs ! That is quite satisfactory, and it contributes to the global pleasure. Plus of course I don't depend on an Internet connection. And I have backups, obviously.
Yes, the tags may seem overkill, but they help me a lot too. It would be long to explain, but you can imagine what you can do with so many tags.
Anyway, despite being a bit off-topic, I hope my reply to you will at least show some people here that I'm really serious about audio stuff, and that if I'm willing to go to great lengths in order to find the right EQ, or the right ASIO4ALL or equivalent for my headphone setup, it will still be NOTHING compared to the time that I've already spent on audio stuff.
I'm not hoping for any praises for that, I'm not here for that. Maybe just a little bit of respect from a few people here, and we'll be all right.
Likewise.I ripped most of my CDs using dBpoweramp: https://www.dbpoweramp.com/
It's ripping, tagging and album art capabilites are excellent: https://www.dbpoweramp.com/cd-ripper.htm