After I first got my Squeezebox about a month ago, I had a number of problems with files being unplayable by Squeezebox after ripping with Itunes. I had thought making the transition from Itunes to EAC/FLAC solved the problem. However, a recent experience encoding with EAC/FLAC leaves me to conclude that Slimserver 6.2.0 has issues with song titles, moreso than the method of encoding itsefl.
Yesterday, I was encoding Bill Laswell's "Disengage". I download the track information from the built-in "freedb" utility. After ripping with EAC, and encoding with FLAC, only 1 of the CD's 8 tracks would play on the Squeezebox. The dreaded, and all too frequent "Problem - Cannot Open File" message was returned on the Squeezebox screen. On this particular album, many of the songs are collaborations between Laswell and other artists. So, the song titles assigned by freedb are something like... Tangier Space Draft (with DXT) Black Down (with Peter Namlook) Evil Eye (with Jah Wobble and Jeff Bova) None of these songs would play in Squeezebox - UNTIl I altered the songtitle - I basically deleted the parts with the parenthesis and Voila - the songs played fine! The new song titles... Tangier Space Draft Black Down Evil Eye In all my years of using various media players - I have NEVER experienced a player that couldn't deal with CDDB and freedb song tags. Until Slimserver, that is. Even the early versions of Winamp back in 1998 and 1999 could handle song titles that make 2005 Slimserver choke. It's really an irritating bug - I cannot believe I'm the only one experiencing this problem. I don't know if a formal bug report has ever been filed on this issue or not, but one definitely should. -- Cleve Two-channel system; McIntosh MC2205 amplifier McIntosh MAC4100 receiver Klipsch CF-4 speakers Denon DR-M3 Cassette Deck ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Cleve's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2048 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18823 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
