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Another minor footnote to the whole project... directory names of the re-encoded/transcoded albums are modified with suffixes to indicate source info:

- Albums ripped from CDs get no suffix.

- Albums ripped from vinyl get a "[V]" suffix.

- Albums downloaded as MP3s from Amazon or Rhapsody get suffixes of "[A]" or "[R]", respectively. (No, I don't use Rhapsody any more... do they even still exist?)

- Albums downloaded from Bandcamp (lossless) get a suffix of "[B]".

- Albums which were ripped from HDCD-encoded CDs and have been decoded to restore the original dynamic range get a "[H]" suffix.

Yeah, it's all a bit OCD... but this whole project was an exercise in OCD. So whatever.

I almost did something similar, but it got to be an eyesore for me.  I ended up just creating a text file with all that info, since it wasn't really necessary to see at all times.

The suffix is only in the directory name, not the meta data tags. So it does not show up on the display of the Clip+ unless you are browsing the file system, and it is completely invisible in Poweramp unless you pull up detailed track info (to view full path to file).

I was just discussing with a colleague the other day about various mediums (namely optical) and how quickly the technology was adapted for *totally not illegal means* because of programs like Napster, Kazaa, Limewire, Morpheus, BearShare and all the other off spins of pre-torrent, post-newsgroups days. Not that I'm that old, but I was still in high school when kids were selling CD-Rs for $5 that included your choice of music. Now when I build a new machine I don't even include any optical drive.

I also get my music exclusively through google play for $10 a month I'd guess it is - Seems more than a fair price to pay for how much I use it.

I used to do video encoding that I completely automated with 'Super' before it turned into a heaping pile of crap (still out there on the internet). The last thing I did with any audio editing was with Audacity to make annoying mic spam for team fortress 2, but they killed that off.

"Anyway, here's wonder wall" - in .ogg format.

Another minor point... in the past, I've needed to manually trim a fraction of a second's worth of samples from the start and/or end of MP3 tracks purchased from Amazon if I wanted to get seamless "gapless" playback on albums where tracks run one into the next (e.g. live albums). At some point, the transcoding tools I use seem to have been updated to trim these extraneous samples automatically. This was a pleasant surprise.

I had figured there would be a background "rear guard" action going on for the next few months cleaning up gaps as I discovered ones that annoyed me, but it appears this will not be necessary.