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Phil, why are you extracting to DFF (and if they are Tyson rips I've been pleading with him to stop doing DFF; makes no sense at all, none)? DSF does all this for you (except the deep classical composer tags, etc).Audiogate will convert DFF to DSF.
Phil, yes, but the problem is that you are starting off with DFF, so the tags are not there, and won't be there with DSF. But at least DSF saves them. DFF "tags" only get saved as a sidecar in JRiver, and moving them to another player, etc is without tags. If you have the ISOs I'd just re-extract in batch (when you have time, of course).
My recommednation continues to be re-extraction cuz that way you automagically grab whatever tags are on the ISO; lots of your tagging work is then done. I'd just do a search on all your drives for "*.ISO", then collect 20 at a time and do the extractions, then move them back off...but that's me. Also, Audiogate can tend to add clicks at the end of tracks for some DACs to pick up (my theory, not fully substantiated).
I've been doing DFF in my setup because it sounds better. But, I need to re-test with galusha's new flacWaveLoader to see if I get better results with DSF, because DSF is certainly nicer from a tagging standpoint.
I gotta back Ted up on DSF vs. DFF. When I extracted my multi-channel files for playback in Foobar, I started with DFF. With no tagging and the crazy inconsistent metadata imbedded in the SACD iso, finding and playing files with apple remote was really frustrating. I bit the bullet, reextracted all MC programs as DSF and tagged them in Jriver. Now searching and playing the files with Foobar & Apple Remote is smooth and easy. 400+ multi-channel albums at my fingertips.Russ