Quirk in New Music
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I have a library with about 130,000 tracks built over 50 years or so. When I was younger, it was vinyl, then came CD's and though I still kept my old vinyl records and occasionally would add one or play one, I mostly listened to CD's. In the last year, it has come time for decluttering as the kids grown up and I don't need as big a house, tax payments, upkeep, etc.
So I have been decluttering and getting rid of stuff rarely used. My CD's had already been ripped to a central NAS and I have my own work office where I decided to setup a small system to copy the vinyls before selling them. Work system has your Node, Teak DAC upscaler that connect to a Mac275 amp through balanced inputs and Wilson Watt Puppy speakers. And my old Denon turntable. I connected the turntable to a decent A/D and then captured at 24-Bit 48Khz, cleaned up clicks and pops in post and the EQ curve for my phono cartridge (not an easy task).
With some of my records, I have the same one on CD and vinyl. So then I start comparing the 24-bit 48 Khz vinyl to the 16-Bit 44 Khz CD and realize that the vinyl sounds *way* better. Sure it was a pain to rip and clean up, but the vinyl rip blows away the same track on CD. All this got me to select buying of new vinyl some of which are audiophile pressings of older stuff some of which I already have on the CD.
In the Blue Sound software, if I record a new vinyl, it shows up in the New section, but when I click on it, Blue Sound loads both the CD version and the vinyl version at the same time playing 1st from the CD and 1st track from the vinyl. So I keep hearing the same song repeated twice - once in lower quality and the second time at high quality. But I didn't rip the CD as new music. I probably ripped that 10 years ago. Then I bought the same vinyl and copied that. Blue Sound counts both as New.
Little bug, but please fix
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The New section in the library gets correctly the new Vinyl rips that I have just added, but when I go to play the 'New' album, I get both the 10 year old CD rip and the new vinyl rip. The metadata isn't all the same. Same artist is the same, but with the Vinyl, I add onto the album name the date of the vinyl pressing and the date of the original release. So, for example, I have Jeff Beck, Blow by Blow in CD and Vinyl. For the Vinyl, the album name is Blow by Blow 2015 (1975) and the Encoded by is 'Channel D Pure Music' and there is no Date metadata. For the CD, the metadata says artist is 'Beck, Jeff' and album is 'Blow by Blow', no Encoder is listed and Date is 1975.
So the metadata contains quite a few differences. Blue Sound seems to think they are the same thing.
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