buelligan;495030 Wrote:
> I'll try to educate myself enough to comprehend your recommendations but
> if I have to edit the cue sheet for each CD, well, I just don't see
> myself dedicated enough for that.
{Hmmm... It just occured to me that you might be able to use foobar2000
to take the tags from the cue sheet and apply them to the tracks. I'm
pretty sure it will do that if you open the .cue in fb2000 and use it to
convert to FLAC tracks.}
Well, no matter what you choose, if you want the right titles, etc. to
show up for you music, then somewhere along the way, either you need to
type in the information yourself, or else use some software that can
query freedb or musicbrainz or somesuch to fill in the info for you.
Here's what I go through:
- I've just bought a shiny, new CD and I take it out of the shrink
wrap.
- I run the Exact Audio Copy program (aka EAC - that's what I user to
rip)
- When I put the CD in the drive, EAC queries the freedb (or
musicbrainz) online database to see if there is an entry that matches
the number of tracks and track lengths.
- If it finds the disc, I usually want to edit the genre, and likely
will want to do some touch up of the track titles. (Sometimes it's a lot
of editing and I start to think about an infinite number of monkeys at
typewriters...)
- When I rip the disc EAC generates a .cue file with the track
information.
- I open the cue file in Foobar2000, have it calculate Replay Gain and
update the cue file.
- Lately, I've been embedding artwork into the flac image, as well.
- And finally I run a Ruby script I wrote to insert the ARTISTSORT and
ALBUMSORT tags into the cue file, because I like seeing Patrick Ball
under 'B' and I also like seeing an artist's albums sorted
chronologically.
Code:
--------------------
REM ALBUMSORT "Ball Patrick 1993 fiona"
REM ARTISTSORT "Ball Patrick"
--------------------
I really think that for most people FLAC files for each track are the
way to go. (where 'most' might mean 'an overwhelming majority of')
I use FLAC images - a single FLAC file for the entire CD. At first, it
was out of a concern for gaps and the ability to recreate the original
CD exactly. Having admitted to myself that the odds of wanting to
recreate the original CD are pretty small, it may be that I'm continuing
out of sheer bloodymindedness.
The one big enticement to switching to FLAC by track would be Music IP
which would allow me to pick a song and then create a random playlist of
other tracks that sound like it.
marcoc1712;500470 Wrote:
> Hi Timothy, coud you explain what is the cue.pm, where is located and
> how I have to modify it in order to accept other arguments in .cue file
> scanning?
Hi Marco,
cue.pm is part of the squeezebox server source code, and where-ever you
have that source code it's in Slim\Formats\Playlists\CUE.pm - on my
linux box it's in /usr/share/perl5/Slim/Formats/Playlists/CUE.pm . That
perl file is the one that gets executed when a .cue sheet is parsed.
If you've done programming using perl, then you can change the code.
For adding tags, they'd have to be ones that the serve already supports
or you are looking at a much larger project. I knew going in that
ARTISTSORT and ALBUMSORT were supported in .mp3 files.
AndyG has already added part of my patch into the source tree - see
'this thread' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=66948) -
but I haven't been keeping up with the version releases, so I don't know
if it's publicly available, yet.
-- T
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