# The QF Bible

**C1.** Thou shall not look upon the music libraries of other with envy or arrogance.

**C2.** Thou shall not transcode media between lossy formats, or from a lossy format to a lossless one.

**C3.** Thou shall not use single file plus CUE in any format, especially APE.

**C4.** Thou shall always use a consistent file structure, preferably one of these:

* The bare minimum:

	`
	<Album Artist>/<Album Artist> - <Album> (<Year>) [<.Ext> - <Bit Depth> - <Sample Rate>]/<Disc-Track#>. <Title>
	`

* With a media type (such as Vinyl, WEB, CD, BD) where applicable:

	`
	<Album Artist>/<Album Artist> - <Album> (<Year>) [MEDIATYPE - <.Ext> - <Bit Depth> - <Sample Rate>]/<Disc-Track#>. <Title>
	`

* With a catalog number where applicable:

	`
	<Album Artist>/<Album Artist> - <Album> (<Year>) [MEDIATYPE - <.Ext> - <Bit Depth> - <Sample Rate>] {CATALOGNUMBER}/<Disc-Track#>. <Title>
	`

**C5.** Thou shall always choose lossless over lossy, with the three allowable formats being FLAC, OPUS and MP3 (in that order).

**C6.** Thou shall not normalize or gain alter tracks.

**C7.** Thou shall not include featured artists in the album artist.

**C8.** Thou shall respect YouTube uploads with the record as the thumbnail of the video.

**C9.** Thou shall not merge multiple releases into one if they were originally separate.

**C10.** Thou shall always use one space before and after each hyphen.

**C11.** Thou shall not organize music by genre or anything else that can be interpreted subjectively.

**C12.** Thou shall always download music one cares for, for oneself, by oneself. Failure to do so means the file is likely lost.

**C13.** Thou shall not place "the" at the end of an artist name.

**C14.** Thou shalt not use multi-value tags for intentionally single value fields.

**C15.** Thou shall avoid embedding album art when possible, instead use cover.png or cover.jpg.

**C16.** Thou shall not rip vinyl at 16bit/44kHz.

**C17.** Thou shalt not prefer MQA over anything under any circumstances.

**C18.** Thou shall encode FLAC only at level 8 compression.



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