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Using high quality media is a must. TY (or anything made in japan, as it is essentially TY) is the standard for quality media.

Use FLAC, SHN is being "filtered" out.

If you can find the original checksums for your shows, then use SHN and compare the original checksums against yours.

And even though your lineage wont be that great, still include a text file with your shows, if anything it whill help you down the road.

Good luck, it is VERY time consuming.