Archiving my cd's with APE and cue sheets...

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So here's my problem. I have about 200 classical cd's that I want to
backup as APE files so that I if I need to convert to some future
codec, I just decompress, mount, and rip. The problem for me is that I
have custom typed in a wordpad document, all the cd titles for my cd's.
The CDDB and freedb either dont have many cd's of mine or are
innacurate.
One way I thought I could avoid typing the info in each time would be
to use the cue file and put the info there, so I just mount it and its
in, the problem is there doesnt seem to be a composer category and I
use artist for the conductor/orchestra so I dont have room.

I thought a second option would be to maintain my own local freedb list
so I search each time i need the track info but only type it in once. I
havent used it before but Im assuming I can type in my own to it?

I just started using cdex and would like to continue doing so but it
also seems to not have a composer box.

What do you think is my best option?

thanks.
 
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Aaron D. wrote:
> So here's my problem. I have about 200 classical cd's that I want to
> backup as APE files so that I if I need to convert to some future
> codec, I just decompress, mount, and rip. The problem for me is that I
> have custom typed in a wordpad document, all the cd titles for my cd's.
> The CDDB and freedb either dont have many cd's of mine or are
> innacurate.
> One way I thought I could avoid typing the info in each time would be
> to use the cue file and put the info there, so I just mount it and its
> in, the problem is there doesnt seem to be a composer category and I
> use artist for the conductor/orchestra so I dont have room.

Why don't you rip them to individual files and store the metadata in the
file headers?

If you're archiving, you might want to consider using FLAC since it's
open source (less likely to disappear in the future, runs on more
platforms.)
 
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In article <1111996043.159700.190920@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> MAGIC5227@gmail.com writes:

> I have about 200 classical cd's that I want to
> backup as APE files so that I if I need to convert to some future
> codec, I just decompress, mount, and rip.

What's an APE file? (Obviously I didn't search Google for "ape") Some
encoded compressed format? In the future, you may not have the tools
to decompress the file. If you want to save something for the future,
use simple WAV files. If you want something less bulky for day-to-day
listening, use your compressed version for that. In that way, you'll
know as soon as you no longer have the means to play it, and you can
go to your archived backup and make new compressed files in the format
du jour.

> The problem for me is that I
> have custom typed in a wordpad document, all the cd titles for my cd's.
> The CDDB and freedb either dont have many cd's of mine or are
> innacurate.
> One way I thought I could avoid typing the info in each time would be
> to use the cue file and put the info there, so I just mount it and its
> in, the problem is there doesnt seem to be a composer category and I
> use artist for the conductor/orchestra so I dont have room.

You're into some specialized, though probably quite common today,
documentation here. I don't know how to do what you're doing (other
than use Word Pad, which I don't). Again, you want to future-proof
your archive - understand that "future" might be as little as five
years in the future. Use plain text files (which you can get from Word
Pad) and just put them on the disk with the WAV file. All your eggs in
one basked, and in a form that will probably be recoverable for
perhaps half your remaining life.

> I thought a second option would be to maintain my own local freedb list
> so I search each time i need the track info but only type it in once. I
> havent used it before but Im assuming I can type in my own to it?

You could import your text files into a text-based data base like
AskSam.

> What do you think is my best option?

Just enjoy the music.

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On 28 Mar 2005 09:34:01 -0500, Mike Rivers <mrivers@d-and-d.com> wrote:
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>> I have about 200 classical cd's that I want to
>> backup as APE files so that I if I need to convert to some future
>> codec, I just decompress, mount, and rip.
>
> What's an APE file? (Obviously I didn't search Google for "ape") Some
> encoded compressed format?

Lossless compression. The author provides plug-ins for Winamp and other
things, though none for Linux the last I checked.

I'm using .wav files, but I don't have enough digitized commercial CDs
to merit considering compression.

Yet.
 
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In article <2J%1e.18736$cg1.591@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net> cdkrug@worldnet.att.net writes:

> > What's an APE file?

> Lossless compression. The author provides plug-ins for Winamp and other
> things, though none for Linux the last I checked.

Thanks. Sounds like bad news for an archive though not unreasonable
for personal use in the short term.


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"Charles Krug" <cdkrug@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
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> On 28 Mar 2005 09:34:01 -0500, Mike Rivers <mrivers@d-and-d.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I have about 200 classical cd's that I want to
>>> backup as APE files so that I if I need to convert to some future
>>> codec, I just decompress, mount, and rip.
>>
>> What's an APE file? (Obviously I didn't search Google for "ape") Some
>> encoded compressed format?
>
> Lossless compression. The author provides plug-ins for Winamp and other
> things, though none for Linux the last I checked.
>
> I'm using .wav files, but I don't have enough digitized commercial CDs
> to merit considering compression.

Given that you are likely getting only 50% data compression, why bother ?

geoff