nate_dawg wrote:For someone who only utilizes either .flac or .mp3, is there any reason to use this over the delivered PIs? I probably will switch over just to cover any other formats that I might pick up but was curious if there is any real difference between them for these two file types.
If you only use FLAC and MP3 then it's probably not worth installing the dMC Tags plugin. The only potential advantage dMC Tags might have over the Ogg/FLAC plugin is that it supports Unicode filenames. (I plan to re-write the Ogg/FLAC plugin eventually, solving that problem in the process.) Also, dMC Tags won't handle MP3 files at all as Opus handles them internally.
On the other hand, if you do have dBpoweramp and want to use the dMC Tags plugin for other formats, then you might want to disable the Ogg/FLAC plugin to free up a bit of memory. Personally, I've left them both enabled which means the Ogg/FLAC plugin handles .OGG and .FLAC since the dMC Tags plugin keeps itself at the bottom of the list.
As mentioned on the plugin's web page, in time I (or someone else) might write standalone plugins, which don't require any additional software like dBpoweramp, which replace dMC Tags for some of the formats it handles. I doubt anyone will bother to do that for
all of the formats so dMC Tags will always be potentially useful. For now it was a very quick way to add support for a lot of formats as a bonus to people who use both Opus and dBpoweramp.
dMC Tags sets a flag which keeps it near the bottom of the plugins list which means any other plugins (which don't also set that flag) that handle music tags will take priority over it.
Second question... is there a way to enhance the DO context menu for a music track with the same entries that dBa enhances the MS Shell's context menu? Going by my memory I think its 'edit tag' and 'batch convert'. I know that's a bit off topic but it's been in the back of my mind since I switched to dBA a few months ago.
I have both of those entries on my context menus in Opus. Have you turned off non-Opus context menu entries?
I'm using dBa but only recently... which is after I've already ripped my own CD collection and about 3 of my friends to .flac using using Easy CD-DA Extractor. I had no problems with Easy CD-DA but am now feeling a bit paranoid (in a compulsive way) that my rips accurate. Oh well, live and learn.
Yeah, I hate that feeling of not knowing if the rips are good until I listen to them. I might be 100 miles away from home and really want to listen to something I don't listen to often, only to find out that it's skipping all over the place. That's why I swear by EAC and dBpoweramp. I haven't used Easy CD-DA Extractor so I don't know what it is like but I've tested a lot of other rippers and EAC & dBpoweramp are the only two I've found which reliably detect all errors, try to correct them and actually report them if they fail to do so.
