Look at the features …
http://www.mediamonkey.com/download/

Pierre O.

Unfortunately it doesn’t stop there, to really do a good job you have to first rip with EAC and create the MP3 files; after that is done, the files should be processed through MP3Gain to get their perceived volume to a proper 89 or 90Db – that avoids clipping as well, which improves sound. Unfortunately, every new CD made now is compressed and made way way too loud (wikipedia has good info on that, under “loudness war”)… nothing one can do after that is done but process the files and lower the volume so one doesn’t have to constantly keep leaping for the volume control when tracks change.

As for tagging and cover art – well, Tag&Rename is brilliant at getting that information from Amazon. It’s the only part of this whole setup that isn’t free, but it’s worth the registration cost.

So, for perfect rips, you wind up with a three-step process.

the problem i’m having is that the titles DB is totally inconsistent. either i use musicbrainz, which gives me better quality artist/track names (the beatles is always the beatles, not Beatles or Beatles, The) but doesn’t give me genre. or i can use freedb which fills in genre but isn’t consistent with artist names.

and that’s just rock music. classical is a total mess. let’s say i have an album of arturo toscanini conducting the new york philharmonic performing beethoven’s 9th symphony.

for artist i might have toscanini, or NY philharmonic, or beethoven. for cd title i might have any combination of those.

and then there are lots of classical cd’s with more than one composer, e.g. grieg + strauss. then it’s pretty much random what will appear – one composer, both, the conductor, the actual piece, etc.

i REALLY wish there was a better DB to use. i’m dreading the clean up im going to have to do when i’m done ripping.