Thanks Kelly. This gives me a good reference point, and I wasn't aware that
you could import those files into EAC.
Blessings,
Brian
-Original Message-
From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org]
On Behalf Of Kelly Pierce
Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2010 6:06 PM
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: Re: Rules for Naming Ripped Files
There are no specific rules. Realize that the free database that EAC uses
does not have information on some albums. The commercial CDDB database that
Winamp and iTunes use can be accessed using the .player program. And
exported as an .ini file that can be imported into EAC.
From experience, I have found a few conventions that work for me as a
screen reader user. I have EAC create one folder for each disc ripped. The
default is to create a folder for the artist and then for the disc. I place
the artist name first in the folder name followed by the album name.
Sometimes with an artist of many albums I place the year between the artist
name and the album name. For albums with multiple CD's, I create one folder
for the album and a folder for each CD with the artist and album name
followed by the CD number. If I simply labeled it CD1, the folder could not
be identified easily if it were separated from the album folder, such as
with a portable media player.
I follow a different naming convention for each track, to ensure the tracks
appear in the same order as they do on the album, I enable EAC to number
each track with single digit numbers beginning with a zero, such as 01, 012
and so forth. This is followed by the track name only. As a screen reader
user, I find it frustrating to listen to the album and artist name on an
album folder I have already accessed.
These practices are similar to those used by many who rip albums.
Kelly
On 4/24/10, Brian Hansen bc.hanse...@mchsi.com wrote:
I'm using Exact Audio Copy to rip all of my CD's to the computer as
FLAC files, and I was wondering if there is any rules or naming
conventions that I can use to enable the meta data tags to be filled
out using the info contained in the file name. Since EAC allows
complete customization of ripped file names, one could put the Artist,
Song Album Titles, as well as track number in any order, as well as
use different characters to separate the info. This is why I'm
looking to see if there is any rules or naming conventions out there
that would speed the processes up. Any and all thoughts or help will be
greatly appreciated.
Blessings,
Brian
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