Throw CD into *nix workstation (NetBSD), open a shell. Type "ripit --year XXXX" (inserting the year as appropriate - FreeDB doesn't supply this information).
Wait. ripit script extracts using cdparanoia, encodes with LAME (options -b32 -V0 -mj -q1) ultra high quality VBR files, then runs mp3gain across the entire directory (so the whole album) using album gain, don't clip. Using ID3-TagIt, sanity-check the tags for capitalisation etc. Where more than one version of the same track exists on a CD (eg different mixes) enter the name of the mix into the ID3 comments field. I only use ID3v1.1 tags at present, so abbreviate the title if necessary. Save any changes to tags and move all encoded MP3s to /pub/mp3/incoming on the media server. Either wait until midnight or run the update script manually. All files will be moved out of the incoming directory and into the correct directory for that artist, creating the directory if it doesn't exist. If the title, artist and comment tags are the same as an existing track then that file will be replaced by the new version. The entire MP3 directory tree /pub/mp3/* is then scanned, with all the ID3v1.1 tag data being stored in a MySQL database. Once scanning is complete the update script "kicks" SlimServer into doing its own rescan then builds an M3U file for each complete album (for WinAmp), as well as creating symlinks for each album /pub/albums/<artist> - <album title>/<track no> <title>.mp3 and inserting a JPEG of the album artwork into the folder if one exists. If I want to make an MP3 CD (or DVD) I can then just burn these folders to the CD as-is. Sounds complicated but it all works pretty much automatically. The update script runs at midnight, checking if there's any files in the incoming directory and aborting immediately if not (when run from cron). -- Squirrel ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Squirrel's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5785 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26804 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
