What's your favourite editing software, and why?

Posted by: EJS on 05 February 2015

Hi all,

Title says it all - which software/hardware do you use to manage your music collection?

Personally, I'm on a mac and use XLD for ripping and converting formats, Metadatics for editing metadata, and Sample Manager for editing the audio files itself.

Regarding the latter, I've found a surprising number of high-res (classical) music is sold with artefacts at the beginning or end of tracks: usually a low volume 'pop' which is often a side effect of the PCM conversion of DSD files. A quick snip of the final 1ms usually solves the issue - quicktime does the job but sample manager allows batch processing of files.

Cheers,

Posted on: 05 February 2015 by Simon-in-Suffolk

I am a Mac and PC user. By the far the easiest way for me is Dbpoweramp using the Windows File Explorer extensions (right mouse button) . It's simple, capable and effective with no fancy UI, but simply uses my regular file manager screen.

i don't find the OSX implementation as easy to use.

Simon

Posted on: 06 February 2015 by hungryhalibut

I use Musicbrainz Picard to edit metadata on downloads, which I can just get my feeble brain around. It took a while for me to realise that you need to save the files in the computer, edit the metadata and only then move them to the UnitiServe. I save a second copy to the NAS at the the same time.

Posted on: 06 February 2015 by dave4jazz

Originally Posted by Simon-in-Suffolk:

Simon

+1 for PC user (with apologies to HH but there's nothing more to say)

Dave

Posted on: 06 February 2015 by Harry

dBpoweramp does everything I need and does it well.

Posted on: 06 February 2015 by Mike-B

As a PC user & exclusively .wav - dBpoweramp does it all.

Musicbrainz is a nice to go to & search for hard to find metadata or other tag info, if they don't have it, it don't exist.

Posted on: 06 February 2015 by Bananahead

PC user.

dBpoweramp for ripping only. MediaMonkey for everything else.

Posted on: 06 February 2015 by Reinibert

Windows user: cue-ripper for ripping and the great MP3Tag for edting the meta-data. It works simple but if you want more there are realy a few features you would like. The main features you can find here: http://www.mp3tag.de/en/index.html

Posted on: 06 February 2015 by nbpf

Debian GNU/Linux system, "rubyripper" for ripping and "lltag", "ex falso" for tagging (I am going to test "puddletag"). Command line for copying, moving and renaming files and directories. "rsync" based scripts for backup and remote data transfer. dBpoweramp for converting on W7 in Oracle VM Virtualbox. Best, nbpf

Posted on: 06 February 2015 by YanC

iBatch for iTunes 3

Here: http://www.smarttoolboxideas.com

By far the most feature rich library, track and album management software around. Besides album look up and batch editing it offers features like track and metadata validation, backup and archiving tailored to your music collection (sample screen below), and a lot more...

I know cause I developed it to manage my 2k+ collection.

Mac/iTunes only though.

Also use XLD for FLAC to AIFF/ALAC conversion.

Posted on: 06 February 2015 by SongStream

Holy cow...fellow PC users! Well, hello. DbPoweramp serves me well for ripping and any conversions. Jriver is a pretty good all-rounder for ripping, organising etc, particularly if you then use it for browsing and playback, though I do not use it for either, just experimented with it for a while.

Posted on: 06 February 2015 by Bert Schurink

EAC for ripping, MP3tag for tagging, DBpoweramp for cases where conversions are needed.

Posted on: 06 February 2015 by EJS

Originally Posted by Simon-in-Suffolk:

i don't find the OSX implementation as easy to use.

Simon

XLD is not user friendly to set up, but once profiles are set, there's nothing faster than dragging folders to XLD in the dock. I love its flexibility to rip or convert into a predetermined folder structure based on metadata, without need for any intervention.

Posted on: 06 February 2015 by JSH

Jaikoz and Audacity here on PC

Posted on: 06 February 2015 by m0omo0

Originally Posted by YanC:

[...] I know cause I developed it

to manage my 2k+ collection. [...]

I love the examples — why bother organizing your music files when John Zorn is all you need !

I am always fascinated by your posts in the Music Room (when I occasionaly catch them , that is). You must have a fantastic collection.

Congrats on the app. Looks neat.

ATB

Maurice

Posted on: 06 February 2015 by Dungassin

dBpoweramp PC version via Bootcamp

Audacity for editing sound files. Very easy and FREE!

Posted on: 06 February 2015 by YanC

Originally Posted by m0omo0:

Originally Posted by YanC:

[...] I know cause I developed it

to manage my 2k+ collection. [...]

I love the examples — why bother organizing your music files when John Zorn is all you need !

I am always fascinated by your posts in the Music Room (when I occasionaly catch them , that is). You must have a fantastic collection.

Congrats on the app. Looks neat.

ATB

Maurice

hey!

I saw the Z-man in a gig in Birmingham/UK (89 or 90), Naked City era. It was promoted as a jazz concert. It was funny when after a few tracks Zorn detected some apprehension amongst the crowd and suggested they left as the rest of the show was gong to be like that. Many left, but the show was legendary.

Thanks for your comments.

Posted on: 07 February 2015 by Spudgun

I use dbpoweramp for ripping, always works great. Had problems on a few occasions but because my drive wouldn't read the cd, unless the problem was copy protection I just used another laptop with a different drive. I use Mediamonkey as control software and portable device docking and on the fly conversion. Mp3 tag is brilliant for correcting tags.

Posted on: 07 February 2015 by GregW

- OS X

- XLD for ripping, tagging and transcoding

- iTunes for storage

- Logic for editing files on an occasional basis. My wife uses it more extensively for own recordings.

Posted on: 07 February 2015 by dayjay

On pc, eac for ripping and the excellent mp3tag for tagging. Asset upnp to serve abd transcode files