Thanks for all for the useful info. To help me understand better, here's my summary interpretation of the issues - please correct me on anything! (I'm filing this under "Things I wish I'd known before ripping" ...)
If using EAC configured as per the Slimdevices wiki, it uses freedb as a tag source, and which has broken-format tags for some compilations. It is hard to detect this at rip time since EAC doesn't preview the tag allocations. So one needs to use mp3tag (or other tag viewer) afterwards to check for correctness e.g. a blank title tag is definitely wrong. Also I've noticed that the EAC-generated filenames are often formatted "track# artist title - artist title". Mp3tag can use Convert Filename - Tag to generate correct tags from this. So, given that I've now finished ripping, what I really need is a tagging app that: 1) scans my files and highlights those with obviously incorrect tags 2) uses a better quality tag source db 3) allows you to preview all the tags My current method of achieving #1 is either by spotting weird entries in the SC Artists list or bulk-loading entries into mp3tag and sorting by title to find delinquent entries, but this is all rather laborious, so I'd prefer something more automated and intelligent. For #2, I tried mp3tag with amazon.com/de but those too often have incorrectly-formatted tags. Still got to find time to try out MusicBrainz (Picard)... -- mr-b ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mr-b's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10044 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=46264 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
