Thirith on 3/7/2013 at 08:29
I recently got MediaMonkey to organise my music collection. I've got about 40 CDs of music, mostly in WMA format, on a network drive; most of my devices play the format, but there are some (very few) that don't. While I went through all the files to see whether they all have correct tags and album art attributed to them, the devices recognise this unevenly - e.g. on my PS3 within one album some files show album art, others don't.
In terms of sound quality and organising my collection, is it worth re-ripping all my disks as MP3, using MediaMonkey? It would only take a few hours, but if I end up with the same inconsistencies (tags, album art) it wouldn't really be worth it. Any thoughts? Also, any tips on the best way to rip CDs (especially with MediaMonkey)?
ChaozFlame on 5/7/2013 at 20:56
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In terms of sound quality and organizing my collection, is it worth re-ripping all my disks as MP3, using MediaMonkey?
Only if you want to fix this.
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WMA format, on a network drive; most of my devices play the format, but there are some (very few) that don't.
As long as the bit rate wasn't lowered, it'll sound just like it did on the CD.
Bjossi on 5/7/2013 at 22:18
If you have the disk space you may want to consider adding the intermediate backup of your music collection and re-rip it to flac, ape, wavpack or other lossless compression. With an archive like that generating new lossy files for your music players will be a trivial task for any future needs and you also get the benefit of a backup in case something happens to the original CDs.
As for your question to me the clear path is to ditch the wma's and use mp3. If you follow the "industry standard" of tagging them you should see the same results on pretty much all players, it helps that the mp3's IDvx tags are not freeform like for example vorbis which could be a nightmare to get consistent results with.
Zerker on 6/7/2013 at 11:41
Strangely enough, vorbis tags, while freeform, have very well defined "standard" tags. I typically rip to Ogg vorbis as my preferred lossy format, and have had zero problems here.
EvaUnit02 on 6/7/2013 at 18:58
Converting from one lossy compression format to another lossy one is a bad idea, period. Definitely re-rip them. (Why you were using woefully poorly supported/unpopular format like WMA in the first place, I dunno. Did you have a MS Zune player or the like?)
