Whenever I "rip" my CD's to my harddrive, I first must select the metadata.
My preferred ripper, XLD, doesn't have the biggest metadata collection, so I've always let a native Mac application (which used to be iTunes, now it's Music) identify the metadata first, then I run XLD to rip it.
Generally I'm presented with more than one possibility for the metadata. You can already gleen some differences just by looking at the list. Some are exceptionally wordy (I don't like those, my Roon always knows all the details anyway) and others not. Some are in languages other than English (but 95% are in English).
But there really isn't enough detail in most cases to figure out which would be the preferable metadata (or, at least, the one I would prefer).
It would be better if you could explore each metadata option, to see how they label each song rather than just the whole disc. But I have never seen such an option available. Instead the only thing that I can do is select one version of the metadata and see what it's like then. If I really don't like it, I can undo it and start over, but this gets complicated especially if I have already ripped the disc. Not only do I have to delete the ripped disc files, or quit and restart the XLD application, sometimes I've had to reboot the computer.
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