Over the last several years, there have been several discussions here about how to get ID tag information into Rivendell carts when not using the Rivendell ripper. The solution seems to have been to rip to FLAC and import that. In fooling around yesterday, I discovered another way around the barn. I manage parts of the library for a community station, and FLAC is not a part of our deal, whereas MP3 is, and I really wanted to avoid introducing another format. I have long ripped with EAC, compressed to MP3, but kept the WAV file. We have really wanted the tag information, and here is a way to do that without FLAC.
After a rip, I have a folder with both the WAV and MP3 copy of all the CD's tracks. I import the MP3's with rdimport, which preserves the tag info. Then I open each track, one at a time in the Library editor, delete the cut (which is always 001), add a cut (which is 001 if no track exists), and import the WAV file of the same track to that cut. After I have done that for all of the CD tracks, I move all those carts to an empty group, apply rdmarkerset to fix the start, end, and segue markers, then manually set the post to talk end, and the job is done. Yeah, extra steps, but we are at the point where we only input a few CD's a week (and often not every track from those), so it is not an ordeal in our case. The library deletes the cut from /var/snd at the moment the delete is confirmed, and creates the replacement "001" file immediately on import--no extra steps necessary to make that happen. --Chuck W. _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
