AccurateRip + CD Power Rankings

[flowersofnight]

Is everyone here already using AccurateRip for CD rips? If you aren't, you should be:
http://www.accuraterip.com/
The list of compatible ripping programs is here: http://www.accuraterip.com/software.htm
I use ExactAudioCopy on Windows which is free.

If you have a reasonably common CD drive and a reasonably common test disc (I used Iron Butterfly's "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida ) you can calibrate your CD drive's offset versus a known reference point.

By the way, if you find a drive without caching, you can extract at warp speed. This one is great:
https://www.newegg.com/asus-model-dvd-e818aat-dvd-rom-drive/p/N82E16827135304

Anyhow, for your amusement I kept logs of the re-rips I did and it tells you how many other people have already ripped that same disc, so you can infer how popular it is with insufferable audiophiles and insufferable computer nerds. Of the ones I did that are Relevant To Our Interests:

Malice Mizer - merveilles: 16
Malice Mizer - bara no seidou: 12
Susumu Hirasawa - AURORA: 10
Susumu Hirasawa - Sim City: 10
Malice Mizer - Voyage sans retour: 9
Malice Mizer - Beast of Blood: 8
Moi dix Mois - Nocturnal Opera: 7
MANDRAKE - unreleased materials vol. 1 (rerelease): 7
Malice Mizer - saikai no chi to bara: 7
Susumu Hirasawa - Virtual Rabbit: 7
KAKU P-MODEL - Vistoron: 7
Susumu Hirasawa - jikuu no mizu (rerelease): 6
Moi dix Mois - D+SECT: 5
Moi dix Mois - Beyond the Gate: 5
Moi dix Mois - Dix infernal: 5
Malice Mizer - Garnet: 5
Susumu Hirasawa - science no yuurei: 5
Malice Mizer - memoire DX: 4 (5 for "baroque")
Moi dix Mois - Shadows Temple: 4
Moi dix Mois - Reprise: 3
Moi dix Mois - Dixanadu: 3
Lareine - fierte no umi to tomo ni kieyu: 3
Malice Mizer - Gardenia: 3
Schwarz Stein - New vogue children: 3
Kazutoki Umezu - KINEMA: 3
Malice Mizer - uruwashiki kamen no shoutaijou: 3
Moi dix Mois - Dialogue: 2
Moi dix Mois - Pageant: 2
Moi dix Mois - Lamentful Miss: 2
KAKU P-MODEL - Anti-Vistoron: 2
KAKU P-MODEL - Big Brother: 2
Schwarz Stein - Current: 2
BABYLON - Garnet Children: 2
Malice Mizer - ma cherie: 2
MANDRAKE: unreleased materials vols. 2 (rerelease) 2
Schwarz Stein - Artificial Hallucination: 2
Schwarz Stein - Perfect Garden: 2
P-MODEL - P-MODEL (1992): 2
BABYLON - getsurinka: 1
Kneuklid Romance - LOVE SONG: 1
Klaha - Nostal Lab: 1
Lareine - Reine de fleur I: 1
Lareine - Reine de fleur II: 1
Pride of mind - Systems of Romance: 1
Da'vid/shito:aL - Da'vid/shito:aL to iu mono: 1
TURN OVER CROW omnibus: 1
P-MODEL- fukyoka-kyoku-shu from 1983: 1

All these figures are not including myself.
I'm surprised how popular "saikai no chi to bara" is, given that it's a single with only one instrumental track.

 

[sanctum]

Depending on when those rankings started being collected I think a few of those MM rips could be attributed to me.

 

[flowersofnight]

Depending on when those rankings started being collected I think a few of those MM rips could be attributed to me.

These were all over the past month or so.

I haven't done any Moi dix Mois yet, wonder where those will sit on the charts.

Surprisingly nothing I've done from "civilian" genres has beaten out Merveilles for the top spot. Maybe I'll see if "Michael Jackson's Greatest Hits" would beat it, that's got to be the most popular CD I own.

 

[flowersofnight]

Additional power rankings:

Moi dix Mois - Nocturnal Opera: 7
Moi dix Mois - D+SECT: 5
Moi dix Mois - Beyond the Gate: 5
Moi dix Mois - Dix infernal: 5
Malice Mizer - memoire DX: 4 (5 for "baroque")
Moi dix Mois - Shadows Temple: 4
Moi dix Mois - Reprise: 3
Moi dix Mois - Dixanadu: 3
Moi dix Mois - Dialogue: 2
Moi dix Mois - Pageant: 2
Moi dix Mois - Lamentful Miss: 2

Henry Purcell - The Indian Queen: 39
Michael Jackson - The Essential Michael Jackson: 200

Incidentally, the following CDs seem to have multiple versions - my version doesn't match what's in the database but I'm pretty sure they're not pirate knockoffs or anything:

Malice Mizer - kyomu no naka de no yuugi
Moi dix Mois - Nocturnal Opera
Moi dix Mois - Beyond the Gate
KAKU P-MODEL - Anti-Vistoron

Maybe it's some sort of first press/second press thing for the M10M albums.
For the last one, I wonder if the one other guy had a pirate copy or something. It was only actually sold in one shop and I doubt they made multiple pressings.