Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] Total Audio Converter

2007-08-29 Thread LappiPump
I have been using TAC for 3 months now and can recommend it to anyone. Very easy-to-use plus supports almost all formats. The only drawback is that TAC does not convert protected formats. -- LappiPump LappiPump's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] Question on folder structuring

2007-08-29 Thread moley6knipe
Here's my £0.02. I rip my single-artist CDs... F:\music\artist\album\track no-track name.filetype ...so F:\music\Wings\Wild Life\01-Mumbo.mp3 ...and compilations... F:\music\compilations\album\track no-track name.filetype ...so F:\music\compilations\1998 The Album\01-Here We Go.mp3 As ceejay su

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] Best Of / Greatest Hits ........!

2007-08-29 Thread reverber
Slimserver 6.5.4 on Debian Etch. Albums as single flac files with embedded cuesheets all in a single directory. Tags are created by flactag from MusicBrainz. "Compilations" setting is "list albums by band" Fishbone skin (if that matters). All of my Peel Sessions, Greatest Hits, etc. are getting

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] Best Of / Greatest Hits ........!

2007-08-29 Thread egd
ntom;168846 Wrote: > I HAVE however just SOLVED the problem.! Nothing like trying to > decribe a problem for focusing the mind. > > I checked the tags again & realised that the albums causing the problem > had COMPILATION=0 where as the ones listed OK did not [i.e. no > COMPILATION tag

[SlimDevices: Ripping] DVD-A ripping (Kind-of)

2007-08-29 Thread peejay
There is a lot of discussion on this forum and many others about recovering the digital audio from DVD-A discs. Technically I believed from my research that save using software tools which were all but banned, this was a non-trivial (read very very hard here) problem to solve. As an aside, I like

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] FLAC files sound terrible on SB3

2007-08-29 Thread dantheman
snarlydwarf;223557 Wrote: > What did you use to encode them? Winamp uses a weird FLAC encoder that > is known to havee issues with other players. > > See http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=221343&postcount=7 Ah ha! I used WinAmp.Now if I can get the FLAC front end to work, I'll have

[SlimDevices: Ripping] Testing my Flac library

2007-08-29 Thread street_samurai
Ages ago (probably around a year) someone posted a script (possibly in perl or bash script but maybe just a dos script) to test an entire library of flac files for errors. At the time I was stunned to find i had several problems in my library and its taken me all this time to fix up and replace