i agree with sin that full consistent albums are important. By consistent I mean from the same rip or at least sound like it (sometimes you just don't know if a person got the tracks from different places and renamed them all alike). I check most of my albums by listening to most if not all of the tracks to make sure they sound consistent and if there is just one song that doesn't, I don't put it in my full albums folder. There may be a few from my early collecting days that I haven't caught yet, but my last 300 or so albums have been filtered well. I also haven't accepted anything under 192kb/s in the past two years or so.
About 200 of mine were ripped myself, but I didn't make a verifying file for them. Do you think it's too late to do that now since I've copied the whole collection to different hard drives 3 times?
Phredgreen - I must say that you have great taste in music...and you have something that I've been scouring the internet for in the past month and have found nothing. I will be getting that from you, and then I will thank you immensely