Martyn;500942 Wrote: > > I guess I don't really know what a well tagged file is - I think I'm > simply using the default that dBpoweramp came with.
This is just a file with all the metadata you want. Most people are happy to have ARTIST, ALBUM, TRACK NO., TRACK NAME, GENRE, COMPILATION TAG (if a compilation). You can add a lot more, but those are the basics. I'm sure dbpa is adding those already. Martyn;500942 Wrote: > > I use the Music Folder because it gets me to a file quicker. I haven't > built any playlists yet - I tend to navigate to an album and let it > play. I don't navigate via Albums, because there are a lot more albums > than music folders (plus I'd have to remember the album title). The > Artist approach seems to be even worse, with a great many more artists > to scroll through before I reach the one I want. I don't use playlists much either. I'm talking about just picking artist and then typically within artist I look for the album. I can't see how scrolling through music folders would be any faster...in fact seems like it would take longer given less specific organization. I'm doing this currently with about 60,000+ tracks and I can quickly find everything I want. Is your library substantially larger than that? Even so, seems like the music folder approach is not optimum. Martyn;500942 Wrote: > > If I understand you correctly, I should do two things (as a minimum): > > 1. Use mp3tag to re-name my existing files as a batch process. Is there > somewhere I can find a simple tutorital on how to do this? > > 2. Set dBpa to [track] [title] to eliminate this problem for future > rips. I assume that dBpa will continue to create the appropriate folders > as it rips (as it does now). > First, yes, in Dbpa, use [track] [title] to get the song file names to be just that. Second, you probably want to retag to get to [track] [title] and mp3tag will do that for you (so can dbpa), but I think you should probably spend some time learning about tags, what tags you want, what organization you want for the files, etc. (for example, do you want your compilation albums to show up in separate directories or separate tracks under each artist...I have compilation albums ripped to: MUSIC/COMPILATIONS/ALBUM NAME/tracks) There is a mp3tag forum that will be helpful and there is documentation there too on using mp3tag. It has a little bit of a learning curve but is very powerful. http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Main_Page http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/BeginnersGuideToTagging http://www.mp3tag.de/en/support.html Martyn;500942 Wrote: > > If there's a "cleaner approach" to all this that will make life easier > in the future (assuming that I ever have the time to become more adept > at this), how can I determine what this should be? Thanks, again, > > Martyn In my opinion, and many others on the forum, having good tags is the cleanest, easiest, most powerful approach to managing your music library. There's a lot of interaction between having securely ripped, well tagged, well organized files and successful use of squeezeboxes (or other software). Best to try and do it right up front. Happy New Year! -- garym ------------------------------------------------------------------------ garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73277 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
