Not to bump an old thread, but I just ran into this, er,
annoyance this evening.
I recall being in Matt's camp at the time and just thinking that one can just as easily update the tags after the rip as they can before the rip, but you know what they say:
Experience is the best teacher.
With that said, the fundamental flaw I found in Matt's approach this evening is that he is assuming that every CD ripped in one session exists in the YaBB database. Oh, that's so not true.
(Roughly 25% of my collection is not [or at least was not at the time of the original rip] in YaBB, and I am a very mainsteam type of guy, too! No weirdo Indie stuff here.
)
When all is said and done, you are potentially left with numerous "Unknown Album," "Unknown Name," etc. duplicates to sift through. How is this handled?
Okay, I don't seriously expect an official response to this post given the age of thread, but please, please, please fix this in MC 11 at least. Thank you.
(BTW, I guess this isn't
the fundamental flaw in that
paulr raised an excellent point as well about potentially reripping tracks and losing any and all previous updates.)