Hello,
Another neeb to Cuetools 2.1.2A. A few simple questions and a question about a log <groan>.
First, between 2002 and 2005 I ripped about 3500 CDs using EAC, these were then encoded to APEs. About 1200 of these were verified by ripping them on 2 different types of drives and then comparing the results. Since late 2005 I have basically been listening to them. For a couple of reasons, I have recently decided to transcode them to FLAC. Fortunately, I found Cuetools which allows me to do so much more. Unfortunately I am getting many more "not accurate" results than I had expected. Some I can explain (a leadout issue on an early drive) but others I can't.
One issue is I am in Australia and most modern music CDs sold here were also (in various combinations) remastered, mastered, rearranged, had tracks changed etc, and pressed often (in the 80s and early90s) from either track or whole disc based digital master tapes (Sony PCM16xx U-Matic). This often results in accuraterip returning a low confidence for popular titles, 0 confidence for the most less popular tittles, or no database entry at all.
I really don't know much about accuraterip as it was in its infancy when I was ripping. I am currently muddling my way through Cuetools and the resultant log files, I suppose it will all eventually become clear. Now to the questions:
1. is there a manual for Cuetools?
2. is there a guide to interpreting the logs?
3. is there a good explanation of how the accuraterip database verifies the tracks ( it is track based, isn't it?)
4. with various artists albums there appear to be 2 main types of cue sheet:
REM ACCURATERIPID 00304806-0287f028-15121c12
PERFORMER "Various"
TITLE "The Best Of The East Coast Blues And Roots Music Festival (CD 2)"
REM DATE 2000
REM GENRE "Blues"
FILE "Various Artists - The Best Of The East Coast Blues And Roots Music Festival (Disc 2 of 2).flac" WAVE
TRACK 01 AUDIO
TITLE "G Love & Special Sauce / Blues Music"
PERFORMER "Various"
INDEX 01 00:00:00
TRACK 02 AUDIO
TITLE "Tony Joe White / The Delta Singer"
PERFORMER "Various"
INDEX 01 04:16:59
TRACK 03 AUDIO
TITLE "Charlie Musselwhite / The Big Boat"
PERFORMER "Various"
INDEX 01 08:51:42
and this
REM ACCURATERIPID 002391cc-0180ddea-b910f40e
CATALOG 093624686729
PERFORMER "Various Artists"
TITLE "City of Angels"
REM DATE 1998
REM DISCNUMBER 1
REM TOTALDISCS 1
FILE "Various Artists - City Of Angels Movie Soundtrack.flac" WAVE
TRACK 01 AUDIO
TITLE "If God Will Send His Angels"
PERFORMER "U2"
INDEX 00 00:00:00
INDEX 01 00:00:32
TRACK 02 AUDIO
TITLE "Uninvited"
PERFORMER "Alanis Morissette"
INDEX 00 04:32:13
INDEX 01 04:33:60
TRACK 03 AUDIO
TITLE "Red House"
PERFORMER "Jimi Hendrix"
INDEX 00 09:08:70
INDEX 01 09:10:45
TRACK 04 AUDIO
TITLE "Feelin' Love"
PERFORMER "Paula Cole"
INDEX 01 13:01:02
TRACK 05 AUDIO
TITLE "Mama, You Got a Daughter"
PERFORMER "John Lee Hooker"
INDEX 01 18:38:45
TRACK 06 AUDIO
Which of these is considered the most "acceptable" (if that has any meaning)? I noticed that different databases appear to favour different schemes.
Also, I do not know what to make of this log
[CUETools log; Date: 5/08/2011 12:34:44 AM; Version: 2.1.2a]
[CTDB TOCID: 6eSv.MMZM7l_9J3YkT4EeahUW.c-] disk not present in database.
[AccurateRip ID: 00304806-0287f028-15121c12] found.
Track [ CRC ] Status
01 [38357a6a] (0/0) No match but offset
02 [dd866980] (0/0) No match but offset
03 [e7b3b15e] (0/0) No match but offset
04 [90c75012] (0/0) No match but offset
05 [50ddae6d] (0/0) No match but offset
06 [01d603a5] (0/0) No match but offset
07 [b90c18f9] (0/0) No match but offset
08 [e43da2fe] (0/0) No match but offset
09 [2bfa9f4a] (0/0) No match but offset
10 [79be0aa4] (0/0) No match but offset
11 [d95f2e46] (0/0) No match but offset
12 [ba182d68] (0/0) No match but offset
13 [0018ce84] (0/0) No match but offset
14 [66431538] (0/0) No match but offset
15 [fb6cc9a7] (0/0) No match but offset
16 [45dd7b4a] (0/0) No match but offset
17 [fbda9e6d] (0/0) No match but offset
18 [b8fcc4de] (0/0) No match but offset
Track Peak [ CRC32 ] [W/O NULL]
-- 100.0 [5DA62C09] [1D6E8764]
01 98.4 [5AA0BC10] [74DD99F5]
02 99.9 [7BD092FD] [E5915363]
03 100.0 [51B7D756] [8ED611E2]
04 100.0 [4E771224] [0716E7D8]
05 89.0 [F889D9B9] [5D83586C]
06 99.8 [A9E24353] [2BE94567]
07 100.0 [B49874A7] [7AD02C4C]
08 94.4 [FB69F64C] [C518C405]
09 89.0 [0F7F529B] [52A79887]
10 100.0 [99AEBEC5] [0DEAC2A1]
11 93.9 [5208A259] [4512CAB0]
12 97.9 [644A77A5] [41256702]
13 78.4 [45E4DD4F] [26EAC24E]
14 100.0 [267C0718] [E40121FA]
15 100.0 [7CAB10AB] [3863F8DD]
16 98.4 [5FD54815] [DDDAA824]
17 99.9 [1866FB99] [0ACC4021]
18 99.9 [F40C451F] [FD15E293]
While this disc was being verified the acurraterip symbol was in the status bar with a 0 beside it.
I could understand it if there were some tracks with 0/0 - but all tracks? Am I just being dense?
Thanks,
Bob
BTW. Sorry about the rambling.