Rach Fan
Be aware that for Classical Music, streaming software sucks. If you can write your own, and are adept at organizing your own files, that would be the way to go. Otherwise you are reliant on the metadata. Be prepared to start looking for composers by their first name (I.e. your Haydn may end up Under F for Franz Joseph Haydn or J for Joseph Haydn, or even under M for Michael Haydn, F.J. younger and lesser brother). The recordings will be further subdivided by whatever metadata the Intern entering the disc that day decides is relevant (such as birth and death dates for Composers). For example, I have 6 different Mahler tabs. Sometimes the same multidisc recording, such as Mahler 3, will end up in two different tabs.
I have experimented with different software from companies such as Melco, Audirvana, J. River, & others that claim to solve this, and the bottom line is that they lie. Therefore, since you have Computer Science background, I would store your files on a NAS or other HD, and not bother with something like Bluesound. And I would forget about having the luxury of shoving batches of discs into a ripper while you do the laundry. You will save a lot of grief if you analyze the files on the HD after the rip and organize them according to whatever system you have devised, rather than trying to find it a month later and after you have added batches of CDs.
I am not a Computer Science person, but if there is a way to disable the metadata as you rip the CDs, I highly recommend doing it. The encoded data will keep trying to mess up whatever organizational scheme you cook up. Perhaps record in a lossless format that doesn’t encode metadata—so don’t use FLAC.
Be aware that for Classical Music, streaming software sucks. If you can write your own, and are adept at organizing your own files, that would be the way to go. Otherwise you are reliant on the metadata. Be prepared to start looking for composers by their first name (I.e. your Haydn may end up Under F for Franz Joseph Haydn or J for Joseph Haydn, or even under M for Michael Haydn, F.J. younger and lesser brother). The recordings will be further subdivided by whatever metadata the Intern entering the disc that day decides is relevant (such as birth and death dates for Composers). For example, I have 6 different Mahler tabs. Sometimes the same multidisc recording, such as Mahler 3, will end up in two different tabs.
I have experimented with different software from companies such as Melco, Audirvana, J. River, & others that claim to solve this, and the bottom line is that they lie. Therefore, since you have Computer Science background, I would store your files on a NAS or other HD, and not bother with something like Bluesound. And I would forget about having the luxury of shoving batches of discs into a ripper while you do the laundry. You will save a lot of grief if you analyze the files on the HD after the rip and organize them according to whatever system you have devised, rather than trying to find it a month later and after you have added batches of CDs.
I am not a Computer Science person, but if there is a way to disable the metadata as you rip the CDs, I highly recommend doing it. The encoded data will keep trying to mess up whatever organizational scheme you cook up. Perhaps record in a lossless format that doesn’t encode metadata—so don’t use FLAC.