jdm56;241709 Wrote: > I think things are going to be OK from here. This is the process I have > settled on: Rip to flac with dBpoweramp, applying ReplayGain track and > album tags as I rip. After my butt gets numb, I rescan my music files > into Slim Server. When that is done I then back up to an external USB > drive.I'm not sure you can properly set replaygain without post-processing the entire album, meaning the album needs to have been ripped and then followed by a replaygain routine taking into account all tracks from the album. Robin Bowes has an excellent utility for this called apply_replaygain - it's a perl script so it will run on most os platforms. You'll find links to it in this forum. Replaygain tags can be added / corrected at any point post-ripping, so no need to rerip. I may be wrong but I believe that dbpoweramp encodes each file as it is ripped and therefore doubt it is really doing album replaygain.
jdm56;241709 Wrote: > One issue I'm still wrestling with is genre tags, but I figure I can > always go back through and change those if I ever decide how I actually > want to do them. Genre's are easily changeable at a later point in time and > I agree deciding on genre's is an arduous task. Many people have taken to ascribing multiple genres to a single album. Slimserver can accommodate this by you separating the genre's with a semi-colon eg. you might use mp3tag, highlight all dixie chicks tracks, right click, select extended tags and change the Genre tage to equal "Country;Pop". After a rescan slimserver will show the albums and tracks under both the Country and Pop genres. At the end of the day genre's are there to help you find/ play your music, you should feel free to do whatever is going to best help you do that. Personally I find allmusic.com's "Styles" classification very useful. As an example, their Rock Styles: http://wc07.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=73:20. It could be argued using their styles in place of the main genre classification would be more useful for a slimserver user. At the end of the day it all comes down to personal preference and what method/ schema will allow you to enjoy your music your way. -- egd Thecus N5200PRO >> Transporter >> ATC SCA2 >> ATC SCM100SLAT ------------------------------------------------------------------------ egd's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3425 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40080 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
