On Sun, 2005-09-04 at 09:59 -0700, SteveSlim wrote: > Newbie here who loves his slim.
Welcome. > I have ripped a few cds as WAVS to get the best audio quality. > How does slim read information from wavs to build its library. > > My mp3s can have genre and year information and I love the ability to > flick through a genre. > Is there anyway I can get slim to add this info to my wav files or is > there a windows editor for the slim database? Wav files do not have metadata (tags). I haven't checked the source code lately, but I believe it looks at the directory structure of your .wav files and tries to guess. There is a much better solution. And for you, it doesn't require you to touch your CDs. Use FLAC. It is lossless, so you keep all of the audio quality of the RedBook CD. And it supports tags. And it yields you about a 50% compression, saving disk space. And if you have a SqueezeBox2, then the SB2 supports FLAC and you save bandwidth, which can make a difference with wireless connections. Some tips are on http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/tips.html You didn't mention what ripping software you are using, but several of the good and free ones support one click ripping to flac with tags -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
