I have a similar setup. Usually sticking to 16-bit and avoiding 24-bit FLAC helps weed these out.
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Yeah I have that set up too
I've avoided automating my music sourcing for these exact kinds of reasons. Music and books have really poor and unreliable community archival standards, compared to say movies or TV.
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As someone who has never noticed, what's wrong with vinyl rips?
I can often hear the crackles and I prefer to have music in the original quality, without it being passed through some analog format for no reason.
A little bit of irony. Vinyl are mixed differently and never fell victim to the "turn it up to 11 for radio era" of mixing because the physical medium can't do what digital can. So while you may not like the pops when they happen in a rip you are actually getting a more balanced mix. Don't believe me, listen to them side by side.
music in the original quality
I can see how you wouldn’t want modern music in a vinyl rip, but what about older music whose vinyl release was its “original” release?
Old music doesn't get re-recorded for digital releases, they pull it from the original master again, which is better and more authentic than vinyl.
I mean if you went to a concert would you want them to add hiss and pop to the performance so it sounds more like vinyl? Lol certainly you wouldn't want them to intentionally worsen the signal-to-noise ratio
It's seldom that simple. Much of the time with older music, a good clean vinyl rip can sound much better than a poorly mastered early digital transfer (like is often the case with first CD releases of albums first released in the 60s).
I'm with you and OP that poor rips do indeed sound bad (like spotting a bad toupee), but I wouldn't discount all vinyl rips out of hand. For example, I much prefer my PBTHAL rips of the original mono vinyl releases of the Beatles albums to even the modern remasters.
I guess botched remasters aside lol, there isn't really a limit to how poorly something can be done
I like vinyl rips, for older music where vinyl is the best source if tape is not available. and I do like to have original versions alongside modern remasters where possible.
for new music it just seems like extra steps and it seems like there are more and more low quality rippers that have no idea what they are doing, have dirty records, and low quality gear.