New user - help with directory structure?

[RachFan]

(15-05-2022 12:27)simbun Wrote:  Just some further food for thought...

dBpoweramp Music Converter is a great suite of products, but it's strength is really in streamlining the ripping AND tagging in one step, so if you're not going to use it for the tagging it might not be worth the investment. That being said it's still a great ripper but there are other free options out there - especially if you're not going to be using the Music Converter functionality either. I don't use it for a few reasons, the first being that it stores most of its settings in the registry (and it doesn't provide the option to back them up) and the second is that it doesn't use CUETools database for ripping verification (a more feature rich and up to date verification method).
If you do stick with dBpoweramp remember to add the 'CUE Sheet' DSP otherwise you'll lose the CD pre-gap information which is useful when verifying files after the inital rip (this isn't available on the mac version).

If you're on windows I assume you're planning to store as FLAC, if on a mac I guess you're restricted to ALAC. I've also found external album artwork to be more compatible than embedded, but this is really only an issue if you're planning on comverting your music to be used on other systems e.g. Sonos doesn't like embedded album art when using mp3's with ID3v2.4.
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Nice -- thanks simbun!

I don't use Windows at home. A friend suggested dbPowerAmp because it's the only software for Mac that has AccurateRip to verify the ripped bits. From my reading, I thought I would use FLAC. I wasn't intending to use iTunes (which is one of my least favorite Mac apps), because I'm hoping that my CXN plays nicely with UPnP software like MinimServer, and will provide access to the MinimServer search controls.

What's the deal with selecting tags? Can't one simply "select all"? Is there a downside to that? (You see, I really am a newbie, and I'm just figuring out how this works!)

Thanks!