So I'm currently digitizing my records. This is easy to do for CDs. I got myself a dvd drive and just rip them to flac files on my computer. Tagging is easy too pulling the data from music brainz. Vinyl records are a little bit of a different story though because for each side of a record I get one long audio file. Splitting up the files to individual tracks is a very tedious process. I'm currently doing that manually with audacity and then exporting them to flac files.

Does anyone have an idea to do that more easily? Maybe even automate parts of the process. After all music brainz has all the track lenghts available. So in theory it should be possible to automate this to some degree.

Any ideas are welcome. Thank you.

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[–] Profilename1@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

For CDs I use EAC and its various engines it offers for data. As far as vinyl, I also use Audacity but instead of breaking up the album by songs, I break it up by sides. Ex, instead of ripping the Wall as 23 tracks, one per song, I'd rip it as 4 tracks, one per song.

I'm an album snob. I usually listen to a full album at a time and in order, so this works for me and is a lot less effort. I fill in the metadata manually. In this case, it would be tracks 1 thru 4 and track titles "The Wall Side 1" and etc.

That was my answer to the problem you ran into. If there's certain tracks I want to isolate later, I'll edit the file and make a new file with just that track. In this example, you might decide to take "Comfortably Numb" and give it a separate track and put it on a separate folder from the files of the album. I don't do that a whole lot, but I have done it. It's not perfect, but it works for me.