A file you already have — a download, or a capture made somewhere else. It becomes side a of this record, and every step after that is the same as a rip.
An album that is already one file per track — a download you bought. There is nothing to cut, so this goes straight to tagging: beets matches it, replaygain sets the levels, and the cover is fetched and embedded, exactly as a finished rip is.
One track came out dirty — a skip, a click, a passage the stylus fought. Re-record just that track and swap it into the library. The boundaries are fitted against the archived side, so the replacement starts and ends exactly where the original did.
Drop the needle a few seconds before the track and lift it after — the fit needs music on both sides of it. Recording uses the capture controls on the right, and Stop & encode ends it like any other capture.
Replacing moves the old file and the punch capture into
archive/<album>/_punched/. Nothing is deleted.
The 1–3 kHz bar is the one to watch. Arm-up handling rumble is loud full-band but dead in this band; silent groove is quiet in both; music is loud in both. Drop the needle when the band bar sits in the groove zone, not below it.
Anything ffmpeg can read. It is re-encoded to FLAC on the way in and checked that it decodes before it becomes a side — and a lossy source stays lossy, so this does not improve a download. Boundaries are found and checked by ear afterwards, in Cut.
Nothing is filed until you say so. beets is asked what the album is with nothing to read, so it prints what it found and stops without moving a file — and the release you accept is the one pinned when it runs for real. The upload is cleared only once the library is confirmed to hold the tracks.
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What you type here is what gets written — it overrides the release title, qualifiers and all.
nothing cut yet
review/, so the two disagreeing is the signal