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[Sapagrino]

I am hoping someone can help me with the first group of what will be many questions.

I am trying to finalize a strategy for ripping my CD collection (1000+) using dbPoweramp and importing it into JRiver Media Center(MC), and need to modify the default tags and mapping to get all 4 formats to be tagged consistently by the time they are first imported.

The attached 3 screenshots illustrate (if I uploaded correctly) the inconsistencies.  Yellow highlights what is expected.  Blue what must be addressed.

http://pix01.com/L41%40Y8wU

Besides MC, I want the flexibility to also use iTunes/iPod and other software--in the future or as needed by me or others in the family.

Everything has to play well with:

A) Sonos house-wide system w/5 Sonos touch controllers

B) Music Room & Closet equipment: Sonos, Oppo universal player, MacMini, NAS, and Integra A/V Receiver used for 5.1, are currently networked and my 2-channel pre-amp can also access; I will likely buy a "C.A.P.S. Server" to have the library served from a PC w/JRemote (and Sonos) instead of current combination of Sonos and MacMini.

C) MS Surface Pro, 5 iPads in household, iPhones, JRemote, iMac, MacBook, MacMini, old Lenovo Tablet PC, work PC laptop

D) I plan to redo the house and upgrade DACs, revisit possible Sooloos or other system with full AMG metadata "swimming", etc. -- so long term flexibility needed.  

Flexibility is key, here, both as to file format and metadata precision, and I have some specific custom fields I want to add--some to be tagged upon each rip; some only as time permits while ripping; others only while listening over time to my collection.

I will adhere to Computer Audiophile Ripping Strategy.

I will use dbpa's Multi Encoder to rip simultaneously to all 4 formats, set DSPs that will include "ID Tag Processing," and set its CD Ripper Meta Data & ID Tag options to refine and add to tagging.

Before I begin creating custom tags, I want to make sure all of dbpa's default tags end up in the same places in all formats.

Can someone help me address the inconsistencies in the attached screen-shots?  Namely:

Year / Date -- Wave and AIFF lose the Month and Day.

Pad Track #s -- ALAC fails to pad Track # and Disc #

Encoder -- AIFF fails to include Encoder and Encoder Settings.  JRiver doesn't show encoder setting for AIFF, but also not for FLAC and ALAC.

Album art name -- ALAC is only one that called it "Artwork 1" rather than "Front Album Cover"

Style / Grouping -- For ALAC, AIFF and Wave, JRiver has moved "Style" to "Grouping".  It has also swapped out the semicolons ( ; ) with slashes ( / ).

Label / Publisher -- the Label tags that dbpa put in all 4 files have been moved by JRiver into the Publisher field for the Wave and AIFF files.  (Even when I add a Label user field to JRiver, it only shows the FLAC and ALAC tags.  The Publisher is blank for the FLAC and ALAC files.)


I can't be the first person that has tried to get consistency across these 4 formats from dbpa to MC.  Has someone already figured this all out?  

Thank you.

Sapagrino

[JimH]

You may learn more by setting it up and starting.

Try MC's ripper and just rip to WAV.  AIFF might also work.

[Sapagrino]

You may learn more by setting it up and starting.

Try MC's ripper and just rip to WAV.  AIFF might also work.

I don't understand how this is responsive to my issues.  Did you look at the print screens I posted?  For example, why does JRiver take the "style" that dbpa correctly put in all 4 formats, and move it to the "Grouping" field for three of the formats?  Thank you.

[Matt]

I'm not sure exactly what your'e looking for, but all formats don't have the same tag formats (ID3v2, Vorbis comments, APE tags, etc.).

Personally I'd recommend ripping to one format only.

[Sapagrino]

Thank you.  It appears I have put too many questions/complexities into one post.  I will try again, breaking it into smaller and simpler chunks.  There are several reasons I need more than one file format.  Thank you.