Now that my library is completely ripped and moved to M圜loud, I add new CDs by ripping to local disk, sorting the metadata, adding artwork, doing volume analysis and compressing to parallel MP3 drive before I move the new CD to the M圜loud library. I prefer to rip to local disk, and add it to my M圜loud later, as I only have a 100Mpbs Ethernet, and ripping directly to NAS slows the rip down significantly. Once you have ripped your music, you can transfer it to your M圜loud. I recommend prefixing the track title with the track number, using a leading zero format, as some media players only allow sorting by filename, rather than metadata, and the leading zero means that tracks are listed in the correct order (rather than 1, 11 … 19, 2 etc). The media library manager will allow you to view a logical sorting of your collection using the metadata. This echoes the physical hierarchy of your CD collection, so it’s easy to re-rip a CD if necessary. I would recommend you rip your music into a simple, three-level file hierarchy If you need to use a lossy compression format (MP3, AAC etc) to fit all your music onto a portable device, then transcoded to a parallel directory and keep the original FLAC files. So I would strongly recommend that you rip to a lossless audio format (that can perfectly reconstruct the file as it appears on the CD, with no loss of quality). Ripping is a tedious task, and you do not want to do it more than once. This media library manager may include the ripper. You will benefit from a media library manager to help organise your music, and manipulate metadata, change format, etc. But be aware that this data is frequently wrong… The ripper will probably be able to fetch metadata (track names, artist, album name, date, genre, album artwork etc etc) from online sources. You will need some ripping software to pull the music tracks off the CD and onto a hard disk. ![]() But here’s a basic guide to what you need to consider.
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