Hey there,
I've been using MC for a while and loving it. Wife loves not having piles of CDs all over the stereo. But I am also a vinyl nut. While the records sound best straight from the turntable, I want to get some of them ripped in for background listening, transfer to CD,IPOD etc.
I have been playing with other recording software, mostly because MC was crashing whenever I tried to use Record Sound with my RME soundcard, but that seems to be fixed in recent versions. I love, LOVE, the track name lookup in MC and have not found that feature anywhere else. But there are a few things lacking that could make MC far and away the best for LP and tape ripping. Here are my requests in order of preference:
1) Control to record at higher sample rates and bit depth as supported by the sound card. I would love to be able to record my LPs at 48/20 or 96/24
2) I read an article a while back (that of course I can now not find) that said most lossless compression formats down sample anything higher than 44.1. Does MC support any lossless formats that would preserve the sample rate?
3) Sometimes the autotrack splitting doen't get it right, usually creating more tracks then needed. When that happens, it is a pain to go through, delete the affected tracks, rerecord, then fix the filenames, track numbers, tags, etc. One program I played with would show a graphic of the entire rip, with lines shown at the places it detected to split tracks. Before it did the split, you could listen to the parts where it split, add, move, or delete splits as needed.
Even just being able to set the starting track number and name from the looked up list would help alot here.
4) Automatic album art lookup
5) Integrated noise reduction and declicking filter. Not a big concern for me, as I don't mind using different software for the few noisy albums I have, but others might find it usefull.
Thanks,
Jeff