A couple of other thoughts, If you want more info on volume leveling, see: I have probably asked some stupid questions, forgive me, until 6 weeks ago I had no idea what MM was and thought FLAC was some kind of Anti-Aircraft Gun. I haven't used the Virtual CD and don't really see the point. Can you have more than the 5 Custom tags on offer.?Ĥ) Are m3u album playlist files ripped along with CD metadata or do I have create them myself?ĥ) Should I be using the Virtual CD to do all this? The few CDs I have already ripped to my external HD, I have just ripped the CD to the Drive and then Autotagged from the Web (or FreedB), downloaded the album art from Amazon or Googled it.

I think I will end up using the Custom Tags for more functionality (Composer, Orchestra etc). Track Name and that's good enough for me) but my classical music is a mix of full operas, solo instumentalists, vocal compilation CDs and orchestral works. Rock and pop is easy to tag (at least for me - I use Artist - Album -Track No. Anybody out there have any suggestions on any tagging conventions or tips and tricks that they would like to share. But soon I will begin with the classical stuff. Some of these files will also form the basis of playlists for portable listening.ġ) When ripping to FLAC from CD, if I check the 'Level Volume' Box in the ripping dialogue window, does that mean that the newly created FLAC files themselves are irreversibly altered? I cannot see the volume that it is being normalised against (I read somewhere that 89dB is 'standard' whatever that means.)Ģ) On the same subject, if the volume is leveled, is it track leveling per album or for the whole database that is being performed.? I'm a bit confused sorry.ģ) At the moment I am busy ripping all my non-classical music. I also have around 1000+ tracks downloaded from various sources (mainly MP3 but also some WMA and M4A / MP4 files from itunes). After that, I plan on creating playlists in MM and converting the playlists to MP3 for use on my portable devices. I'm a new MM (Gold) user and I have just started the monumental task of ripping my 1300+ CDs (around 900 of them are classical music) all to FLAC to create a backup for my CD collection.

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