How are folks handling Tagging issues?

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#1

I think at his point it is well understood that if you’re ripping to a Rose, your metadata is going to be (wildly) inaccurate. How are folks managing this? Are you:

  1. Ripping elsewhere and then transferring to the Rose?
  2. Ripping to the Rose and then manually editing?
  3. Ripping to the Rose and somehow using a utility to edit the metadata?

This third one is the item I am most interested in. Have folks found a way through any means that include a Windows PC or an Android device to use Picard or some other tool to edit the metadata of the files that reside on the device?

I also am just calling attention to the fact this is a lingering issue and the team needs to address it. Not having core items like DATE pull into the file’s metadata is not acceptable.

#2

While ripping is an advertised function and should work better, the simple truth is that metadata is a mess generally, and no existing streamer has an interface to pick and edit metadata efficiently. Not to mention having good accurate ripping of anything but a most perfect CD.

Any somewhat recent (within past 10 years or so) PC that you could get at Goodwill for $100 would be superior to any streamer, Rose or otherwise.

I find a combo of dbPowerAmp, MP3Tag and SongKong to work very well but there are many alternatives, both free and paid.

#3

My Cocktail had a 100% success rate on metadata accuracy, and a near 100% success rate on finding discs when ripping them. Your comment is baseless.

#4

If you only rip Taylor Tits and whatever else is super-popular it might work. Good for you.

Anything slightly more obscure may not even be in any of the big databases (Discogs, Musicbrainz, GraceNote, etc. etc.) at all. But I’m glad that you could rip your Britney Spears records with no issues.

#5

I’ve ripped CDs that pulled correctly on the device for which I had to physically enter every detail manually into discogs. So again, your comments have no basis. And quite frankly are pretty offensive at face value. I’m sorry your day was so bad that you had to pick a fight with a stranger on the internet to make yourself feel better.

#6

I happen to dislike stupid people, on- or offline. And if you think that a streamer is an appropriate device for large-scale CD ripping and get bent out of shape about it, you are one.

Shouldn’t really be that difficult to comprehend that just because some popular disks you hsad were recognized by Novatron better than by Rose, matching metadata and manually editing missing one on a streamer is a fool’s errand in any case.