[slim] Re: What's your MP3 workflow?

2006-09-11 Thread bdelp
Fire up EAC. Confirm/Edit tags *before* ripping. Rip CD and create MP3s with LAME. Analyze with MiP and add data to tags. ReplayGain data to tags with foobar. Add Album art (folder.jpg) Move to music directory. Scan for New or Changed music with Slimserve. -- bdelp

[slim] Re: What's your MP3 workflow?

2006-09-11 Thread thing-fish
1. Rip disc to Windows XP laptop with EAC 2. Use the MusicBrainz Picard tagger to update the tags and rename the files/folders 3. Run MP3Gain Album gain on the folder 4. Allow MusicIP's MusicMagicMixer to perform analysis on files and archive analysis within file. 5. Copy files to FreeBSD box

[slim] Re: What's your MP3 workflow?

2006-08-31 Thread iangude
Put cd in drive, fire up MMJB. Rip it at 160. Listen to it. Thats it - love the simple life ! -- iangude iangude's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6750 View this thread:

[slim] Re: What's your MP3 workflow?

2006-08-31 Thread aubuti
Yeah, maybe some of us need to get out more often. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26804

Re: [slim] Re: What's your MP3 workflow?

2006-08-31 Thread Jack Coates
1) Music comes from CDs (ripped with CDEx MP3 at 192 VBR) or Emusic.2) Mp3Tag to make sure the tags look okay.3) plugin my iRiver and my backup drive, copy the music to both.4) connect to my linux server and move the music to it. -- I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin,So across the

[slim] Re: What's your MP3 workflow?

2006-08-31 Thread Chippy
aubuti;132498 Wrote: Yeah, maybe some of us need to get out more often. That's partly my point. If all I want to do is listen to tracks - spelled correctly, and at approximately the same volume - it's an in depth process. -- Chippy

[slim] Re: What's your MP3 workflow?

2006-08-30 Thread aubuti
- Rip to FLAC via EAC (including basic clean up of freedb tags -- been meaning to try MusicBrainz instead) - Grab album art (usually Amazon or allmusic.com) - Run apply_replaygain.pl - Use mp3tag to set Artistsort, plus any remaining clean up of FLAC tags - Copy over to debianized LinkStation

[slim] Re: What's your MP3 workflow?

2006-08-29 Thread funkstar
Rip with EAC Clean up tags and download album art etc. with TagRename Convert to MP3 using flac2mp3.pl Embed album art in MP3s with TagRename Copy FLAC files across to my TS-101s music folder Copy MP3 files across to my TS-101s MP3 folder Copy MP3 files across to my Archos AV500 100gig Copy some

[slim] Re: What's your MP3 workflow?

2006-08-28 Thread Paul_B
I also do a few steps to get the music the way I want. From Laptop (WIntel): - Rip CD with dbPowerAmp to FLAC Lossless format straight to my Music share on my NAS (QNAP) device - Edit, clean, download additional info and download cover-art for tags using MP3Tag. I like to use Discogs for Dance

[slim] Re: What's your MP3 workflow?

2006-08-28 Thread Mark Lanctot
I spent some time streamlining the process to be as automated as possible: - correct any freedb errors in EAC. Mostly this is capitalization, spelling and genre errors. i DON'T knOw whozE ENTRING thiz inframation inTO FreeDB butt It's RELLy anoYYing. :-) - rip, encode using MAREO. MAREO

[slim] Re: What's your MP3 workflow?

2006-08-28 Thread dangerous_dom
I just rip with EAC to FLAC then get my artwork with Album Cover Art Downloader. I have never really have any problems with the tags EAC generates. Sometimes trancode to OGG or MP3 for portable use with Foobar2000. -- dangerous_dom *SlimServer Version:* 6.5b1 - 9182 - Windows XP - EN -

[slim] Re: What's your MP3 workflow?

2006-08-28 Thread bernt
Rip to flac with EAC. Tag/rename with The GodFather using Allmusic plugin. Physically restruct and move the files/folders to Slimserver directory with The GodFather Organize tool. -- bernt http://www.last.fm/user/ottovonkopp/

[slim] Re: What's your MP3 workflow?

2006-08-28 Thread JJZolx
- Rip CD using EAC, encoded using FLAC - Place CD in drive - Proofread correct freedb information - F4 to 'Detect Gaps' - Action Create CUE Sheet Current Gap Settings... - Create artist folder on local

[slim] Re: What's your MP3 workflow?

2006-08-28 Thread Paul_B
(while ripping) Edit CUE sheet to reference .flac files instead of .wav. What is the purpose of a CUE sheet? Add Artistsort tag Add Albumsort tag Add Disc tag (multidisk albums only) Add Discc tag (multidisk albums only) Add Albumartist=Various Artists (compilations only) Can you

[slim] Re: What's your MP3 workflow?

2006-08-28 Thread JJZolx
Paul_B;131712 Wrote: What is the purpose of a CUE sheet? A CUE sheet is generally used for burning a CD, giving the proper gaps and indexes to the burned CD. The non-compliant CUE sheets that EAC creates can only be used by a handful of burning programs (EAC, Burrrn, and PlexTools, IIRC).

[slim] Re: What's your MP3 workflow?

2006-08-28 Thread Squirrel
Throw CD into *nix workstation (NetBSD), open a shell. Type ripit --year (inserting the year as appropriate - FreeDB doesn't supply this information). Wait. ripit script extracts using cdparanoia, encodes with LAME (options -b32 -V0 -mj -q1) ultra high quality VBR files, then runs mp3gain

[slim] Re: What's your MP3 workflow?

2006-08-28 Thread radish
Squirrel;131726 Wrote: inserting the year as appropriate - FreeDB doesn't supply this information Weird - it does for me. -- radish radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this

[slim] Re: What's your MP3 workflow?

2006-08-28 Thread Paul_B
Jim, Thanks for the explanation. I can see setting a compilation attribute as a good idea as well as disc and number of discs. I don't suppose adding additional tag properties will cause Slimserver any problems? I like the AllMusic extended information that I can add with MP3Tag such as Review

[slim] Re: What's your MP3 workflow?

2006-08-28 Thread der_max
my workflow: 1. booting into windows, rip cd with eac to flac 2. tag mit mp3tag 3. download cover art from amazon/discogs/google...(or sometimes even using my scanner, if no coverart found on the net) 4. move files to my music archive (extra harddisk of my pc) 5. update slimserver 6. listen...