[slim] Re: Help Required on Ripping...you would think it would be easy...

2006-12-18 Thread Secret Squirrel
There have been MANY discussions on this forum regarding this but I have never put in my 2 cents worth, so here it goes... I use Easy CD-DA Extractor (http://www.poikosoft.com/). I first rip my CDs to FLAC and then use the converter to convert the FLAC to MP3 for my Archos. In between those two

[slim] Re: Help Required on Ripping...you would think it would be easy...

2006-12-18 Thread iangude
...am I not right in thinking that the new version of Itunes doesnt update the tag info with the artwork - it just hold the artwork on the pc, so when you copy it off that PC, the artwork doesnt appear ...just tried it and it looks that way -- iangude

[slim] Re: Help Required on Ripping...you would think it would be easy...

2006-12-18 Thread Paul_B
I use DBPowerAmp and like it very much. Beta 12 is stable and has lots of additional features that plug into AllMusic, etc. For any CDs that don't have the correct tabs I use MP3Tag (does all tags not just MP3) -- Paul_B Paul ~ Slimserver 6.5.1 on

[slim] Re: Help Required on Ripping...you would think it would be easy...

2006-12-18 Thread MelonMonkey
iTunes 7 will get album art but not insert it into the music file. it will store it in its own folder for (currently) exclusive use by iTunes and iPods. This isn't much of a problem. You can easily manually COPY and PASTE the artwork from the main iTunes view into selected tracks to force it

[slim] Re: Help required

2006-01-08 Thread Badger
Forgot to mention above, I have installed Slim server and I-tunes, and am on default settings, so I havn't configured anything to-date. -- Badger Badger's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3037 View

[slim] Re: Help required, how do I ......

2006-01-08 Thread Michaelwagner
OTOH there is some work being done right now on softsqueeze to improve it's sychronization abilities ... check out http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19823 -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile:

[slim] Re: Help required

2006-01-08 Thread Siduhe
If you don't want to get a rip program with all the bells and whistles of EAC - I find audiograbber pretty good, easy to use and it's freeware. -- Siduhe Siduhe's Profile:

[slim] Re: Help required

2006-01-08 Thread Badger
Thanks for your comments Mark/Cejay. I agree, I-Tunes seems to be making a mess of everything. From reading through all of these forums, it apears to be a common theme. Also, lots of mentions of MMM and Moodlogic, so I have just downloaded the latter. I don't fully understand everything it does

Re: [slim] Re: Help required

2006-01-08 Thread Mark Lanctot
EAC quickstart guide: http://users.pandora.be/satcp/eac-qs-en.htm In-depth guide: http://users.pandora.be/satcp/tutorials.htm Note the quickstart guide is newer and its suggestions for MP3 arguments supercede those of the in-depth guide. But if you're ripping a CD, you should be ripping in FLAC

[slim] Re: Help required, how do I ......

2006-01-07 Thread Michaelwagner
At the web UI, in the settings section, you should see 3 lines: Server Settings Player settings for and a MAC address (00:01:02:03) Player settings for and an ip address (127.0.0.1 for the software player) Click on either of the player setting lines. Click on Audio The first paragraph says

[slim] Re: Help required, how do I ......

2006-01-07 Thread Dan Sully
* Kevin Weller shaped the electrons to say... In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Michaelwagner wrote: The first paragraph says this player can be synchronized with other players ... Select the other player from the drop-down list and click change. But I suspect after doing so you'll be

[slim] Re: Help required, how do I ......

2006-01-07 Thread Badger
Ok, Makes sense. that answers that then. Thanks all for your comments Cheers -- Badger Badger's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3037 View this thread: