I am using a variation of the method you describe. The way you do it
uses FLAC compression on the fly by streaming the data through the flac
executable as it comes off disk.
The other way of doing it is by specifying the input file on the
command line (add %1 at the very beginning) and removing the '-' at the
end so it doesn't expect data on the standard input. Then don't check
the 'on the fly' and 'send wav header' options.
It now does the work in two stages, i.e. rip a WAV file first then
proceed to encode the WAV using flac. This is faster on my setup than
doing it on the fly.
A good tag editor for tag fixups is essential as well. I find the data
from cddb being complete but very inconsistent. Band and album naming
will differ subtly and the genres can vary wildly. I don't always catch
them during encoding so I spend time fixing things up after SlimServer
parses the tags and I find inconsistencies ("Cure" vs. "The Cure",
etc.). So far I found "Tag & Rename"
(http://www.softpointer.com/tr.htm) being the easiest to use. It has a
$29.95 registration fee however.
I got my SB2 last week and managed to encode about 125 CDs over the
weekend. I think I am about a third of the way through...
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sposthuma
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