On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 14:11 -0700, Regnad wrote: > I have now used CDex to make the WAVs and then FLAC but I am losing > artist, genre info, etc. along the way even though CDex shows all the > info after the CDDB check. > Am I correct in thinking that the WAV file created by CDex does not > have this info and FLAC has to insert it in the file it encodes? If > so, how does that happen? > Sorry for the handholding...
No problem, it is always worthwhile to bring newcommers into the one true way. Even if there is more than one way. What, specifically, are you using? Are you having CDex do the compression for you? I use two steps. The way I use it, CDex just creates wav files. These do not have tags (I think .wav files can't be tagged, but I could be wrong here). I have CDex put the files in directories that reflect the CDDB/ FreeDB data for genre, artist, album and track. So the wave files are written to <someplace>/rock/the beatles/rubber soul/ 01 - Drive My Car.flac Then I drag and drop them into FlacFrontEnd's GUI. This is a near trivial program that encoded the data and then runs a program to create Flac/Ogg tags from the file names. Once that is done, you can move the files to any directory structure you like. I keep them in a parallel structure, /songs/rock/the beatles/rubber soul/ 01 - Drive My Car.flac If you need my exact setup for CDex or flacfrontend, holler and I'll go upstairs and send it out. -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
