Re ripping a side

A side came out badly — skipping, a bad cue, the wrong speed — and the record is already cut, imported and archived. Record that side again without starting the record over.

Recording over a side

1. Select the record in the header. Archived records are in the list, marked as such.
2. Open the Rip panel. Its names are filled in and cannot be edited — this is the record you picked.
3. In Side, choose the letter you are replacing. The control offers the sides the record already has, plus the next free one. Choosing an existing letter is the re-rip.
4. Record it as normal.

The record now genuinely has sides in two places: the new one in raw/, the rest still in archive/. Both are shown, and the new side takes precedence over the archived one of the same letter.

Carrying the old cut across

Align from archive appears in the header when a record being re-ripped also has an archived copy.

It correlates the new capture against the archived side, works out the offset and any speed drift between them, and moves every boundary of that side onto the new audio. You keep the boundaries you already got right instead of fitting the side from scratch.

Per side it reports the offset, the drift in ms per minute, the worst check miss, and how many boundaries moved. A side that will not align is reported and the others still go through — a bad take on one side is not a failed record.

The plan is marked unsaved afterwards, because the audio genuinely changed and nobody has listened to the new boundaries yet. Audition them before cutting; see Checking the boundaries.

If the alignment cannot find a confident match — usually a very different take, or a capture that starts inside the music — fit the side with a first pass instead.

Cutting and importing again

Cut and import as normal. The import writes into the album directory that already exists, so tracks with the same name are overwritten; the dialog asks you to acknowledge that first.

Archiving again

Archiving a re-ripped record works. The archived side it replaces is not overwritten and not deleted — it is moved to archive/<slug>/_superseded/<timestamp>--side-<letter>.flac.

The old take stays there. It is the only copy of a recording somebody may want back, and disk is cheaper than playing the record again.

Just re-cutting

If the audio was fine and only the boundaries were wrong, you do not need to re-rip at all. Select the archived record and work on it directly — the archived sides are read the same as raw ones. Cut and import again.