Would Eversolo use different databases dependent on country/IP address location? I'm in Canada. No problem w missing Artist names, just album art sometimes. I find rips r faster w A6 than old PC using JRiver. I wonder what FLAC compression rate level is being used on the A6.
Both your questions are hard to answer... For the compression ratio, though, some tests can be performed: 1. get the file, and convert it back to .wav with ffmpeg 2. try encoding it to flac at different compression rates, and see the one that is closer (or exact...) to the original. I may guess they use fast-compression, which gives slightly bigger files, but easier and faster decompression.
Yes FLAC files are always identical 1:1 to the original. Seen tests doing this cycled which always remain OK. The compression is the time/power you like to allocate for getting the smallest results as this is a pure mathematical process. Not all programs have this trivial option. Never bother myself to change the default.
Just curious which default compression setting used by A6. As per Nutal, given the speedy rip times, probably the least amt of compression/processing. Tidal streams might be more compressed to save on Internet bandwidth. I could simply compare the bit rates of the same track (wav, ripped FLAC, Tidal FLAC) to get an idea.
I think you'll always get the same result, comparing two (at different compression ratio) FLACs. But you can try, of course; could be interesting.
Eversolo/Zidoo report the bitrate by simply dividing the filesize/sampling so it will vary with the compression. Any metadata will be included also which gives minor deviations too. Reported as a flaw by me. FLAC compression only varies minor using different compression settings. Nothing to pay attention to but feel free to play with it.
I decided to rip some Christmas CDs but only if CDRipper showed correct track names, artist and album art. For artists w multiple albums I created an artist folder in my New Volume (SSD) and designated this as the storage path. For single albums I just designated the SSD. The A6 created album folder contained jpg & cue files, but no new artist entry is created under MUSIC. I rescan SSD after each ripping session but nothing seems to get updated. I can see album entries under ALBUM. Earlier this year A6 created Artist and Album entries for copied rips from PC using JRiver Media Center. For me it's faster to rip w A6 than Windows 10 PC. Could it be CDRipper (and Internet CD metadatabase) is not providing Artist metadata to the A6 MUSIC management software? GENRE metadata seems to be getting thru, creating interesting playlists. Is software complexity preventing the A6 from becoming a really good music manager for local music? I wish it could do everything well...like a Swiss Army .
The absence of artist on either the CD play or ripper screens is very obvious from the beginning of the A6 development. Even with the latest firmware improvements, there is usually no artist evident even though all other metadata is present. What I do is to rip into an SSD folder named Rips. I then insert the artist name into the main title area of the ripper screen using the supplied edit features. This appends the artist onto every trackname. Then let the rip occur, these days fast and without errors. After the rip, I then move the folder for the ripped album into an Artist folder either newly created by me if a new artist, or into an existing artist folder if I already have albums by that artist. I then remove the folder from the Rips area of the SSD to avoid duplications in the next step. This is to Update the Library which in my case is the entire internal SSD. Then the artist pops up correctly in the library under both artist and album. I have turned off the auto update of sources feature incidentally. Hope this helps, presumably Eversolo will fix this artist issue at some stage.
Thanks again for your ripping tips; I have used for Album Art with great success. With Artist Name it seems even more effort to compensate for the A6's shortcomings. If A6 was a competent ripper/music manager I was going to post a Tips video showing its value as a music server but 7 months in, its still a bit of a "kludge" (definition: an ill-assorted collection of parts assembled to fulfill a particular purpose). I hope Mirror is monitoring this thread. Guess I'll pay JRiver for latest update to retain access to its online CD database, use it to rip CDs and then copy files to the A6...a less than elegant multistep process. In terms of metadata success rate I had been getting 12% of CDs that were not recognized by CDRipper which seems lower than some on this thread were experiencing. With JRiver, almost all of my 250+ rips found the correct metadata. I try to avoid ripping compilation and multi-artist CDs because of the metadata involved.
Let‘s hope that we get an update of the CDRipper app and the CD Player in general. Information retrieval is less than perfect. I ripped my whole collection of Maasaki Suzuki’s Sacred Bach Cantatas: Some disks have all the information, some get just the disk title but nothing regarding the tracks… I love the sound quality of the A6 but the software is less than adequate… No tutorials, basic manual, a lot of hidden functions, unstable library…work in progress ?
I can strongly recommend the program dbPowerAmp - together with the PerfectTune addon. It also incorporates AccurateRip. With my older LG Blueray burner I ripped more than 800 CDs with maybe 5 which were detected to be party incorrectly ripped. On inspection they were clearly damaged. In all cases the tracks were correctly named. Some artwork was missing, this was fixed easily with "PrefectTune". dbPowerAmp supports a batch mode, so all you have to do is to put in a CD and then wait until the CD drawer opens automatically again.
