Fitzcaraldo215
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Wow! That is pretty quick for a trip to the shelf, to the player and back to your seat. You must be a sprightly old dude and wear your track shoes.I am 67. It takes me about 30 minutes to re-tag a classical rip. It takes me about 10-12 seconds to wander over to the bookcase, choose the CD and put it in the CD player. So I would need to play a CD over 100 times before it was more convenient to have ripped and tagged it. I have around 4000 CDs, not many will get played over 100 times in my lifetime.
If I had started tagging when I first started buying CDs maybe it would seem less pointless.
For me, it is not the distance, jewel box and disc handling or the insertion into the drawer or even the time that all takes, a minute or two, not seconds, in my case. And, whatever you do, don't drop it on the carpet and get fuzzy dust all over it! And, God forbid that finger smudges, etc. need a cleaning before playback. Or, worse, when it starts skipping or refuses to play after sitting back down.
The big issue is knowing what I have, and, also locating it on the shelf, which can often add many more minutes. Sure, my classical albums/discs have always been on the shelf in meticulous order by composer, with composers arranged chronologically by the date of their demise, keeping musical periods together. Collections and multi-composer discs screw that up, of course, as do more obscure composers for which there is only one disc. They get lost sometimes. Pop, jazz, etc. are much less a problem simply arranged by artist name.
Still, it was not too bad until the number of discs grew from hundreds to thousands. Now, I am seeing the payoff of the tagging effort with multidimensional searching by composer, by artist, by orchestra, by genre, etc., etc. And, tagging typically takes me much less than 30 minutes per disc. 5-10 minutes is more usual, using partial metadata already supplied on the disc and by quickly copying individual tag data values from other discs already in the library, like composer name, artist name, etc. Classical library taggers, like MusiChi or even JRiver, the latter with just a few custom classical tag fields added, minimize typing, improve tagging consistency and streamline the tagging effort in many ways.