what_to_buy;337990 Wrote: > I'm new to all of this, but after much reading of this forum and the > dBpoweramp forums, here is my strategy: > > 1. In the bottom left menu box, I clicked "profile" then "create > profile" to set up a place to save my settings. > > 2. I chose Rip to FLAC. (I first downloaded and installed the FLAC > codec (from the codec section of their web site.) > > 3. I set my path to go to my music folder. > > 4. I put this code into the naming code box: [IFCOMP][IFVALUE]album > artist,[album artist],Various Artists[]\[album]\[track] > [artist][][IF!COMP][IFVALUE]album artist,[album > artist],[artist][]\[album]\[track] [artist][] - [title] > > I got that code from Spoon over on the dBpoweramp forum, > http://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthread.php?t=15675. It makes regular > CDs by a single artist be named Artist (folder) > Album (folder) > > track number artist - song title. That way the file name would just be > 01 Billy Idol - Rebel Yell.flac. > > And, it makes compilation CDs (by various artists) be named Various > Artists (folder) > Album (folder) > track number artist - song title. > For compilation CDs, the tracks have the correct individual artist > associated with them. The file name is the same structure as for a > single-artist CD. > > To me it made sense for file names to always be the same no matter > whether they came from a single-artist or compilation cd. Any drawbacks > to that scheme that anyone knows (especially for use with the duet)??? > > 5. I left the compression level at the default level (5). > > 6. DSP (bottom left side menu): Add DSP/Action ReplayGain - calculate > track AND album gain > > 7. Then I clicked on Options on the top menu bar. > - Under ripping method, I selected "secure" > - Under meta data I changed Multi-CD Add Disc to Album to never, > because I don't want folders for different CDs in a set of CDs > - Under write ID tags, (1) I un-checked Rating, b/c I didn't like the > little bomb-looking icon it always seemed to add in place of what > should have been no rating. (2) I checked "force no date on year" b/c I > didn't like having a month and day for date - I only want the year. (3) > I also checked "track number without track count" and "disk number > without disk count" > - Under CD rom, I checked "eject after rip"All good settings. I don't want > the artist in my file name so I don't do that. I have it get rid of disk# also. I have it do the 01 02 for track number. Dates are year only for me. It's very cool you can have this all set up isn't it? :)
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