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[Jeff Schulman]

Hi everyone, thanks for reading.  I am having about 400 CDs ripped to an external hard drive by a company that does this work.  The ripping will be to FLAC encoding.  Once I get the hard drive back I believe it be easy enough to point MC to the music on the hard drive as a new library.  But I don't believe there will be metadata associated with the music when it comes back to me from the ripper.  Will MC automatically find the cover art and other metadata and store with the music?

Many thanks, Jeff

[Alex B]

It would be rather odd if their ripping service would not write the basic file tags (at least artist, album, track number - perhaps also year and genre).

Surely they should explain what exactly is included and how the ripping process is done. Ideally they should use some well-known ripping program in the so called "secure mode" and include the rip logs in the delivery.

MC has quite good cover art downloader. If the files have the artist and album tags it probably will find cover art for most of the albums unless they are really rare.

[JimH]

If you don't mind, please name the service.

[Jeff Schulman]

The service is Ready To Play in California.

Let me check with them on what metadata they will provide with each CD that they rip.

Thanks, Jeff

[Alex B]

http://www.readytoplay.com/quality.asp

Metadata and cover art (when available) is included and they claim to use a secure ripping method.

[JimH]

They're probably using MC.