# Re-ripping my music - creating local freedb ?

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/re-ripping-my-music-creating-local-freedb/7099
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [July 31, 2008, 7:01am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/re-ripping-my-music-creating-local-freedb/7099 "2008-07-31T07:01:33Z")
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### Author: ![nerbrume](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/a6a055/32.png) [@nerbrume](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/nerbrume)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2008, 7:01am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/re-ripping-my-music-creating-local-freedb/7099/1 "2008-07-31T07:01:33Z")

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Hello everybody,

I currently have my whole music library ripped in AAC 192kbs, which is too much for my ears (tried some ABX, and I barely distinguish an AAC 80kbs from an original 😆 ), and for the storage capacity of my ipod nano.  
So in order to make things well-done, I am about to re-rip my music to lossless, then to AAC 80kbs, rather than doing AAC 192kbs -\> AAC 80kbs.

But having to re-tag my whole collection to suit my tagging tastes (which took me some time) is really a pain.  
I was considering making a local freedb of my currently ripped music, and using it when re-tagging (so the only step needed is to choose an album from my local db).

Do you know a way to do this ?  
Or maybe some of you have other alternatives ?

P.S. : Well, this thread is not fully MP3Tag related (althought I had used it for tagging the first time 😛, and planning to use it with my hypothetical local freedb). Sorry if this is too out-of-topic.

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### Author: ![Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/florian/32/5759_2.png) [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2008, 12:08pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/re-ripping-my-music-creating-local-freedb/7099/2 "2008-08-06T12:08:29Z")

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You can just copy the tags of the original files via [Ctrl+C] and paste them to the new files via [Ctrl+P] (the files must be in the same order).

Florian

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### Author: ![nerbrume](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/a6a055/32.png) [@nerbrume](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/nerbrume)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2008, 7:48pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/re-ripping-my-music-creating-local-freedb/7099/3 "2008-09-06T19:48:20Z")

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Thanks for the reply (and sorry for the late feed-back).  
This is working, althought it's quite painful to make sure that everything is correctly ordered before pasting.  
But anyway, it's still better than doing it by hand !

Thanks a lot, and another thanks for the quality of mp3tag !