ob_kook wrote: > Thanks for the reply, guys. Good suggestions! > > The library is on a Synology NAS which also serves as the LMS. > > I will most likely be using a windows laptop to access the shares to do > the work on them. > > The library is currently separated into FLAC and MP3 already, so > creating a "duplicate MP3" folder that JJZolx suggested is a good idea. > Although I am finding that I have plenty of room on my portable devices, > my real frustration lies in sorting through a library of duplicate > albums finding the one I want to play on the system at home. > > Slightly unfortunately, the library is sorted by Artist\albums rather > than each album in its own folder, although I think it is not too > difficult to flatten that, which would make the sorting process a lot > easier. > > I guess there is no way around it - this is a job involving numerous > nights of good music and glasses of single barrel rye.
if the files have correct album tags, converting from Artist\albums.... to Artist\Album\tracks.... is trivial and can be done in a batch manner. use mp3tag (works on flac and mp3). download here: http://download.mp3tag.de/mp3tagv258setup.exe Use the "convert" menu command, then "tag to file name" then in the naming string use: .\%artist%\%album%\$num(%track%,2) - %title% (note the starting period). This will put everything below the existing subdirectory. you may not want that, so experiment a little bit, but you'll get the idea of how it works. this will name the track files themselves something like, 01 - Something, 02 - Come Together, etc. If you want the track names to include artist, for example, the end name would be "$num(%track%,2) - %title% - %artist%" etc. *Location 1:* VortexBox 4TB (2.2) > LMS 7.8 > Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet except Radio) *Location 2:* VBA 3TB (2.2) > LMS 7.8 > Touch > Benchmark DAC I, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet except Radio) *Office:* Win7(64) > LMS 7.8 > SqueezePlay *Spares:* VBA 4TB, SB3, Touch (3), Radio (3), CONTROLLER *Controllers:* iPhone4S & iPad2 (iPeng7 & Squeezepad), CONTROLLER, or SqueezePlay 7.8 on Win7(64) laptop Ripping (FLAC) - dbpoweramp, Tagging - mp3tag, Streaming - Spotify ------------------------------------------------------------------------ garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101282 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
