Need help w/ catching up regarding trance music

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Posted by ali92 on Jan-20-2011 07:15:

Need help w/ catching up regarding trance music

I want to get lots of nice extended trance singles (vocal & non) in FLAC (as well as find an easy way to correctly tag many many tracks within a few hours), but I am finding that various digital music stores like Juno aren't supplying most stuff till months (if ever) after they have aired on the usual set of radio shows like ASoT, TAtW, etc. One perfect example is the Shogun Remix of Armin van Buuren featuring Winter Kills - 'Take a Moment'. Buying the singles on CDs (again, if they are even available) will take hours just to rip a few discs correctly through EAC, so what are good options for someone who might have enough money to buy several hundred releases in one go in FLAC & tagging them properly so when browsing & sorting them by tags, everything shows up in the correct spot?

What are the veterans around here doing? Is what I am desiring reasonable or even possible? Is manual tagging the only way to ensure everything sorts correctly? Sites like MusicBrainz are always missing something (especially in this genre, with so many unofficial releases & the like).

I am looking to skim through every single episode of TAtW, ASoT, Club Life, Trance Culture (DJ Maximix) & Corsten's Countdown & try to buy every track I even remotely like, no matter the price, as long as I can have it all in FLAC. If I had to rip that much content from CDs, it would likely take well over a year even if I did it 16 hours a day every day.

Perhaps some sort of big collection exists that I can buy with most of the tracks on it (like a top 250/each year)?

PS: I don't use iTunes nor do I have any real use for it as Foobar2000 does a lot of what it does & more with a smaller memory footprint, plus has FLAC support.

Posted by Chimney on Jan-20-2011 11:23:

Don't forget to use ASIO drivers on top of that.

It's been proven several times that stores like Juno and so on have FLACs that are the same quality as 192 kbps (I, myself have scanned several tracks and can concur that they are problematic)

As for tagging, I believe sites like Juno use the tagging the label provides. Some tracks are extremely well tagged, including label, cat# and so on while others lack them completely. So regarding online music stores, there's no secure way to tell how the tagging will be.

Regarding EAC, your best chance is to use the freedb database options and see if one of the several options there suit you.

Otherwise, Mp3Tag might be handy:

http://www.mp3tag.de/en/

Posted by ali92 on Mar-06-2011 14:06:

quote:
Originally posted by Chimney
Don't forget to use ASIO drivers on top of that.

It's been proven several times that stores like Juno and so on have FLACs that are the same quality as 192 kbps (I, myself have scanned several tracks and can concur that they are problematic)[...]

Hey is this really true? Have I been wasting my money over the past 9 months? I spent about 200 USD there so far hoping I am getting what I paid for (lossless legitimate purchases). What is the best solution if that is the case? Does this music still get pressed CD releases that I can rip myself to ensure better quality than crappy low bitrate MP3s?