All good, I understood @jacobacci to specifically refer to actual file and folder names but it’s good you pointed out that file tags must be First Name Last Name 
I haven’t bothered with the “Lennon, John” naming scheme but using “Beatles, The” is really helpful.
I actually also use “Lennon, John” in the tags, which I know is specifically not Roon best practice.
The correct way to do this, would be to put “John Lennon” into the Artist field and “Lennon, John” into the Artistsort field. Dito for Album Artist.
However this completely breaks my workflow and jRiver scripts, so I never took the time to implement this in full glory.
Roon usually finds “John Lennon” from my “Lennon, John”. Actually I have found Roon to be quite tolerant in this respect.
I am specifically not encouraging anyone to follow my example regarding Tags.
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This is exactly what I do - I have a custom tag (ArtistSort) that I use to cover the above Lennon scenario (and also treatment of ‘The…’ artists e.g. ‘The Kinks’ becomes ‘Kinks, The’) which I use for file/folder naming whilst preserving the artist name.
I further use a naming rule that gives me a folder grouping of A-B, C-D, E-F just to have a little more structure than having everything co-located in one directory e.g. Audio/M-N/Magnetic Fields, The/69 Love Songs/Disc 2/17 - Papa Was A Rodeo.flac
As you say, it all becomes very straightforward once you have J River configured but it takes some time to work out (including trial and error based on wider usage and compatibility).
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I’m pretty sure Sort Artist and Album Sort Artist are standard MP3 tags. MusicBrainz Picard adds them automatically:
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Yeah, maybe. I’ve been using J River for 20 years or so and certainly the tag wasn’t available back when I started.
NAIM UnitiCore.
Hi Mike
Is there any trusted website to download XLD software?? dBpowerrap works same as XLD??
Thanks in advance
Fernando
I’d say from XLD’s own site.
They work pretty similar. Both are very straightforward.
I much prefer dbPoweramp of the two.
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My dbPoweramp seems to be having issues connecting, the website is down too, posted a new topic on this to see if anyone else is having issues.
Please no double postings 
Being a stand alone app I’m not sure what the problem is?
App not loading/starting, not retrieving metadata? The app retrieves metadata from numerous sites have your settings changed?
Data center fiber mishap, reportedly.
dBpoweramp, HydrogenAudio, AccurateRip, etc., all were down last night. At least partially restored now.
AJ
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I brought my 5000+ CDs to a digital migration company … with 2 x 4TB drives
The provided 1 drive with all FLAC
The provided 1 drive with all WAV
no compression…
took 1 week and a couple hundred $$
I cant imagine rippin 5500 CDs… best decision I ever took…
I then transfered it to a pegasus R2 with 18TB storage server and connected to my Mac Mini …
golden …
On the other hand, by outsourcing the process to a third party that makes money on high volume, the odds of a whole collection of 100 percent verified accurate rips with correct and extensive metadata are exceedingly low. If you care about such aspects.
AJ
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Depends on what they use. E.g., dBPoweramp can optionally save the ripping log and AccurateRip result in the album folder (or a separate comprehensive log). Then it’s easy to verify (and less work to fix the possible odd incorrect rip, rather than ripping 5K CDs manually and losing weeks of lifetime)
Exactly, they need to rip 27.5 CDs to make 1$.
I ripped my CDs years ago before broadband and Qobuz, Tidal, using EAC.
These days I just wouldn’t bother and I have no where near as many as 5,500.
There are robots for this
Yes I understand that, but I have to assume humans run the business who want to be paid and that they have operating costs associated with the purchase and upkeep of equipment, plus premises rental and utilities.
I’d want $200 just to open 5500 CDs, take the disc out of the case and put it back again, nevermind all the ripping.