Suggestions for library organization/formats

[Dr. Spankenstein]

Since my recent acquisition of my stylin' RH-1, I have been looking for tips for keeping the "My Library" organized without having too many redundant copies of files lying around. Let me explain what I am working with.

I have been cobbling together a music collection of rips and personal recordings that I have made over the past 12 years. Needles to say, it's a mixed bag of formats (WAV, WMA, MP3 and ATRAC). I am begining to re-rip my CD collection with EAC->FLAC w/imbedded tags so that I can archive my collection and recover some space on my array of drives.

My question, to those more experienced in the SonicStage/MD arena, is: What is everyone's preferred manner of keeping their files for long-term storage and for transfer to MD. I should preface this question with the statment that I am concerned ONLY with sound quality. (I have come to my own conclusion, from a brief experiment with ATRAC3+ @352,256 & 192. Nothing less than ATRAC3+352. I find the soundstage suffers too much with the lower bitrates and the artifacts start creepin' in.)

I am also striving for gapless playback on albums that flow that way, hence the EAC rip to one WAV file. Is it kosher to transfer a file and add track marks in the player? Or is there a more elequent solution?

Please accept my appologies for what seem like rudimentary issues. I have been out of the loop for quite some time, but this old-timer is trying to get up to speed.

Thanks in advance for any advice,

Bryan

p.s. Please take a listen to what an old-school minidisc recorder was/is capable of in my first gallery upload.

update: since the Gallery is down, I took the liberty of attaching the file here. I will move to it's proper place once the site is at "fully operational" status.

Recording info: This was the chamber orchestra I was a member of when I was giging in NYC. We were on a tour of the central U.S. in 1996 and this was from Burlington, IA in an old high school theater. The equipment was an MZ-R3 and a p.o.s. Sony stereo microphone (the model escapes me, but I will provide later.)

Enjoy!

p.p.s. Could someone let me know if this attachment is working? I have attempted to verify, but am receiving an error.

Thanks.

Edited January 10, 2007 by Wunderkind69

[boojum]

I get a memory size error when trying to D/L the file. I have 1GB of memory.

Edited December 31, 2006 by boojum

[Dr. Spankenstein]

I get a memory size error when trying to D/L the file. I have 1GB of memory.

That's what I was get, as well.

Curious, as there has been 13 downloads at the time I write this.

I'll try to upload the smaller version of the file. (I am by no means adept at MP3 encoding!)

Thanks for the feedback.

Bryan

edit:I give up, I can't get this to work! Happy New Year!

Edited January 10, 2007 by Wunderkind69

[raintheory]

In regards to trackmarking files transferred to the RH1, the only way to do this is either by recording in realtime, or using SimpleBurner in NetMD mode.

[Dr. Spankenstein]

Well, the best I've been able to come up with is to keep my FLAC encoded versions of the album and then a ATRAC Lossless version in SonicStage.

Does anyone have an estimated time for the Gallery to come back on-line? I'm itching to upload some stuff for everyones perusal.

Cheers,

Bryan

[Ishiyoshi]

Does anyone have an estimated time for the Gallery to come back on-line? I'm itching to upload some stuff for everyones perusal.

The “Gallery” section will be useable by the end of the month.