Audiophiles hifi appreciation thread old and new

I thought the whole point of metadata was that you no longer had to rely on directory structure to organise files 🙂

Have you tried building up a super basic one like

[artist]\[album]\[title]

(This is Windows, don't know if the slashes go the other way on Mac but you can build it up on the screen where you set file naming).

I'm currently ripping, but will try building up one when it's done on this cd.
As I've said the files are named correctly, it's the folders they sit in that aren't.
I suppose I could just have one big folder full of files, but that's not the most organised...

Won't your player organise them visually from the meta data?

Possibly, but used to the iTunes way of having albums in folders, So trying to keep to that convention

Has anyone tried this audio test? It's to determine whether you can tell the difference between lossless digital files. http://abx.digitalfeed.net/

Interestingly I scored 40% using my B&W PX7, 55% using my Grado SR325R and 70% coming through my hifi. This was in a quiet room with no distractions.

Weird that kids are getting excited by lossless in 2020 when we had linear PCM in the 1980s 🙂

I got 80% on the first test (Senn hd25) but was so sick of the shit music by that point that I clicked through the rest at random and got 52% overall. Happy to stick with "lossy" if it's stuff that I subjectively enjoy.

Success! In your face @mashton and much thanks @ChasnotRobert @aggi
Finally have dbpoweramp naming album and artist folders automatically. So hopefully I'll be able to rip more than the 10 albums I've ripped so far today.

Will keep tweaking the naming convention as I go along, so many albums, feat. artists..

should just say the only issue (not really an issue) I'm having with dbpoweramp, is when it rerips something it's having issues with and does it frame by frame, which is great for accuracy, but fucks with the speed of your ripping, when you're trying to smash through a load of cd's...

How long did it take you to download a PCM file in the 80’s 😬

You didn't have to download them, they came on things called "compact discs" which you bought from special buildings called "shops". You tell that to kids today and they won't believe you...

And they cost £12.. A packet of fags was £1!

Wow. Shops. Now you're taking me back.

I'm ripping cd's currently, making two copies: a 320kbps m4a and a FLAC.
I've recovered my old itunes library, which has 200gb of mp3's mostly 192 and 224kbps, but some 96s in there as well. It also contains loads of albums which I don't have hard copies of. And was going to use that as the basis for my plex audio collection (i generally listen to playlists, rather than albums, legacy of making mixtapes back in the day)
My question do I just rip the albums I currently don't have in my music library,
Or do I attempt to rip everything and don't worry if I duplicate albums, since I'll have the flexibility of the two file formats...

For tracks I bought off iTunes years ago rather than having CDs, I just moved the relevant iTunes folders/tracks into my new folder structure on my NAS (which is mostly FLAC rips of CDs) using the same naming convention, then just pointed Plex at it. Works fine.

I also have a copy of Minimserver running looking at the same folders to feed the control point I use when doing serious listening on my main hifi (Linn Majik DSM using Kazoo as a control point)

Hey @StevePeel have you had issues with your cd drive giving you problems?
I've been ripping for the last couple of days and there's been about 5 or 6 cd's that dbpoweramp either takes ages to rip, takes ages to locate, or the drive won't eject the cd when it's clear that it's not able to read or rip the cd, and my computer tells me some other app is using it, when nothing is...
Slightly frustrating as it's slowing down the flow of ripping, and means there's a growing pile of cd's which I'll have to rip into itunes (if cd drive on my desktop will read them) and then copy over.

I think I found a setting to stop it doing the shit slow frame by frame thing.

Once or twice the whole thing went belly up and I had to lever the disc out of the thing with a table knife. In fact once I’d fucked the outer casing of the drive off altogether it was nicer to use.

I think you can chose whether or not it ejects the disc after ripping if it’s found errors, maybe see if you can make it eject whatever the result.

TBH any of mine that encountered problems I just left them. They’ve been in the loft for 2 years after all. A couple I bought downloads to replace.

Think the issue is sometimes dB takes ages finding/reading the disc drive and then the disc itself, drive will sit there clicking every so often without actually doing anything.
Only way I can sort it is to restart and eject the disc immediately, after I log in. Cd is then placed on a pile and if I’ve got the willpower will get to them at a later date..
Haven’t levered off the cover, yet. Find it weird that there isn’t a hidden eject button you can use on this thing..

Is it warm to the touch? Some drives start to lose their tracking when the innards get a bit warm and expand slightly.

Haven’t felt it will do so next time it happens. I’m starting to get a sense about which cd’s will give trouble (smaller labels/greatest hits/little known band-artist) so might start going with gut feeling and leaving them to the end of a ripping session..

My powered sub has a 50hz hum. It’s plugged into a different socket from the amp, TT etc (same socket isn’t an option).

The sub takes a line level signal via RCA / phono. Connecting the outside / shield / negative of the RCA cable to the mains earth at the sub end eliminates the hum.

Will I die / kill my sub?

Does the sub have a connection to the mains earth? I guess it could be 2 wire.

2 wire indeed.

No laptop power supplies close to the rca cable run. You don't have it turned to the max to hear this do you?