[slim] Re: Help Required on Ripping...you would think it would be easy...
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 processes I use Foobar 2000 to apply replay gain tags. Easy CD-DA will down load album covers and place them in the tags, but I do not use those imbedded tags. I also find that many CD's tags are not what I expect or need, so I use MP3tag to change/correct/spiff up. It's definitely a labor of love but worth your investment. HTH, SS -- Secret Squirrel Secret Squirrel's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4984 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30715 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Help Required on Ripping...you would think it would be easy...
...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 iangude's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6750 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30715 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Help Required on Ripping...you would think it would be easy...
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 EPIA VIA EN15000 Mini-ITX running Windows 2003 R2. Remote storage QNAP(1.2.1)~(160GB Maxtor) SB3 (x1) RIP - dBpowerAMP R12 (Alpha) to FLAC ID3 Tags - MP3Tag v2.36 ~ Paul_B's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3039 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30715 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Help Required on Ripping...you would think it would be easy...
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 to store within the tag metadata of the files. Detailed instructions: http://twistedmelon.com/blog/sep2006.html For Windows, use CTRL instead of Command to copy and paste where instructed. If you have only a few albums worth of tunes this isn't very cumbersome. if you have a lot of music then you'll want to automate the process with a script. In Mac OS X you can use AppleScript and there are a couple of existing scripts to do the job. Get one here (inspired by above instructions): http://nslog.com/2006/09/24/itunes_artwork_in_id3/ Someone else will have to offer up a Windows-specific script/automated alternative. The two best sources for album artwork on the net (bar none) are iTunes and RateYourMusic.com To Rip in Windows, use EAC or AudioGrabber. To Encode to MP3 use LAME. Do anything other than the above for MP3 and you're wasting your time. For FLAC see http://Xiph.org -- MelonMonkey Bruno *'Twisted Melon - Fine Mac OS Software' (http://twistedmelon.com) | 'mira - Personal Control for your Apple Remote' (http://twistedmelon.com)* MelonMonkey's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8466 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30715 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Help required
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 this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19842 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Help required, how do I ......
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: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19804 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Help required
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: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19842 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Help required
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 yet. So my Q now is, being experienced users, how do you advise me to start (ie from scratch). eg: 1. Rip CD's to MP3 using EAC/MP3tag etc to 1 place (my music?) 2. Organise/Tag and create play-list using Mood logic 3. Point Slim server to Mood logic 4. Same as above for downloading MP3's? Cheers -- Badger Badger's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3037 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19842 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Help required
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 anyway. Reserve MP3 ripping for portable devices. There are many more tutorials that can be found using google. Mp3tag is simple enough that no tutorial is really required. One hint though - remove ID3v1 tags and only write ID3v2 tags. Otherwise entries will be limited to 30 characters. I don't use MoodLogic so I can't help there. Regarding downloading MP3s, use Mp3tag to check and correct tags. Be consistent so that SlimServer will handle it consistently as well. Mp3tag makes consistency easy since you can sort by field and make mass changes. --- Badger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 yet. So my Q now is, being experienced users, how do you advise me to start (ie from scratch). eg: 1. Rip CD's to MP3 using EAC/MP3tag etc to 1 place (my music?) 2. Organise/Tag and create play-list using Mood logic 3. Point Slim server to Mood logic 4. Same as above for downloading MP3's? Cheers -- Badger Badger's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3037 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19842 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss __ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Help required, how do I ......
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 this player can be synchronized with other players ... Select the other player from the drop-down list and click change. Done. To undo it, select No Syncronization. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19804 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Help required, how do I ......
* 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 disappointed as IME they never stay in sync for long. Syncing SoftSqueeze and a hardware player will not be in sync because of the Java Sound layer and buffering issues. -D -- vacation (n) : an extended trip away from home in search of inconvenient ways to connect to the Internet. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Help required, how do I ......
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: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19804 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
