Re: [slim] Music File Format/Tagging - Newbie
Converting to Flac needn't be particularly onerous. If you are ripping from CD doing the Flac encode at that point may only add seconds to the rip process if you set up the ripper to do it for you. Transcoding already existing WAV files, I believe that a number of tools will batch up files so you could just set it going at night and come back the next morning with about 30-50 percent more disk space. Disks might be, relatively, cheap and RAID/Backups are good but the more disks you have the more complicated things become. In my opinion storing as Flac rather than WAV has advantages, tagging, size, in-built error checking, and preferred. -- Zaragon Zaragon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14577 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=44988 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Music File Format/Tagging - Newbie
funkstar;281344 Wrote: WAV files don't do tagging. There is a way to fake it using RIF WAV headers, but it is non-standard and there is only limited support (it was included in SqueezeCenter to support old Audiotron users). It also means that unless you transcode WAV to FLAC on the server while playing yu will get half the duration of music in the internal buffer and take twice the network bandwidth to get it there. This will probably tripple, or quadruple the chances of getting network dropouts in a wireless setup :) Transcoding also has it's problems, more load on the server, lack of fast forward and rewind etc. As for the classical tagging I havn't got a clue, there are others that should be able to help with that. Also try the wiki: http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?BeginnersGuide -- ceejay ceejay's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=148 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=44988 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Music File Format/Tagging - Newbie
funkstar That you for that. Just wondering, less work, but need the tags. Russ - Original Message - From: funkstar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 7:00 AM Subject: Re: [slim] Music File Format/Tagging - Newbie WAV files don't do tagging. There is a way to fake it using RIF WAV headers, but it is non-standard and there is only limited support (it was included in SqueezeCenter to support old Audiotron users). It also means that unless you transcode WAV to FLAC on the server while playing yu will get half the duration of music in the internal buffer and take twice the network bandwidth to get it there. This will probably tripple, or quadruple the chances of getting network dropouts in a wireless setup :) Transcoding also has it's problems, more load on the server, lack of fast forward and rewind etc. As for the classical tagging I havn't got a clue, there are others that should be able to help with that. -- funkstar funkstar's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2335 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=44988 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Music File Format/Tagging - Newbie
WAV files don't do tagging. There is a way to fake it using RIF WAV headers, but it is non-standard and there is only limited support (it was included in SqueezeCenter to support old Audiotron users). It also means that unless you transcode WAV to FLAC on the server while playing yu will get half the duration of music in the internal buffer and take twice the network bandwidth to get it there. This will probably tripple, or quadruple the chances of getting network dropouts in a wireless setup :) Transcoding also has it's problems, more load on the server, lack of fast forward and rewind etc. As for the classical tagging I havn't got a clue, there are others that should be able to help with that. -- funkstar funkstar's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2335 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=44988 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Music File Format/Tagging - Newbie
For more on tagging classical music, have a look here: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43851 -- smc2911 http://www.last.fm/user/smc2911/ smc2911's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4388 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=44988 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Music File Format/Tagging - Newbie
Hi Not exactly a Newbie but having had CHKDSK delete all my music, yes I had a backup drive, I feel like one. Two, probably asked a million times, questions: 1) With hard drives costing peanuts, is there any reason not to store the music as WAV files, rather than spending time convertig them to FLAC? Or is there some tagging issue with WAV files? 2) I tend to listen to Classical quite a bit and the composer is important to me. Does tagging the files as Composer, Artist/Performer, Album Title, Track Title, etc. make sense? Thanks a million. Russ ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Music File Format/Tagging - Newbie
Many thanks. Something to read at break tomorrow. Russ - Original Message - From: smc2911 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 7:09 AM Subject: Re: [slim] Music File Format/Tagging - Newbie For more on tagging classical music, have a look here: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43851 -- smc2911 http://www.last.fm/user/smc2911/ smc2911's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4388 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=44988 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
