Off-topic: mp3 ripping bitrate

[John Abreau]

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 10:44 PM, Mick Timony
<michael.timony-H+0wwilmMs3R7s880joybQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> I also adopted the convention of archiving each album in its own directory
> along with text files of its CDDB metadata and lyrics, and a 500x500  JPEG
> of its cover image. I use the CDDB text file to generate ID3 tags when
> encoding mp3's, or the equivalent metadata for other formats.
>
> Jonh, Do you manually retrieve the 500x500 JPEG cover art, or use a script
> or some other tool to that?


I manually retrieve the cover art, usually via Google Images.  I use Grip
to rip to WAV files initially, and copy the cddb file that Grip saves
in ~/.cddb/.
I look for the lyrics via Google, and add them to a file in the old UWP format.


> Once you've ripped you'll whole collection you'll need to start thinking
> about back-up strategies! ;) I've been running a raid array where /home and
> all media is stored, and then I periodically back this up to and external
> hard drive using rsync.


Yup, I keep them on a RAID-1 volume.  The server it's on gets backed up
nightly via rsync, and my backup server's archive volume is also RAID-1.
My media server is a D-Link NAS box, and the backup server is a  tower PC
I got on eBay for $99, with a pair of SATA drives set up as a RAID-1 volume
and empty slots for another drive pair when disk space runs low on the
first pair.



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