The Spotify free version is not a trial, it's a revenue-maker for the
company through the ads. So there is no barrier to setting it up and
using it on a different device. In fact, just download the app and sign
in with the credentials you are using now.
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LMS on a dedicated server (FitPC3)
So, it seems something wonky was happening with Squeeze Control. I just
went to the web interface and the sort was fine, as disc#/track#. I then
went back to Squeeze Control and the sort was fine there as well.
Perhaps I had been hallucinating.
Or, more likely, I had turned on shuffle and didn't
garym wrote:
> late to the party on this, but to summarize what I do for multidisk
> sets.
>
> 1. In dbpa ripping, I make sure album title is the same for all discs,
> and use the disc numbering tag (1, 2, 3, 4, etc.). I do not use the
> disc total tag (there is a setting in dbpa to not use th
If there was an option to treat them as sequential parts of a single
long album, that would work; the problem is that even though the switch
is apparently to not treat the discs as separate albums, the sequencing
doesn't work well, with multiples of each track number. If they were
listed as a sin
Yes, I suspected that.
But the big question is how I get LMS to see the separate disc numbers
as separate albums. As of now, despite having that tag, they are all
coming up in a single list, all five discs combined. There must be a
way.
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Transporter (Ethe
Refresh my memory, I can't find the thread that I know addresses this.
I have a box set (Joni Mitchell Archives Vol. 1), and am ripping it with
dBpoweramp. The titles of each disc come up as identical, and that's
fine. However, no disc numbering defaults in, they are all 1/1. I want
to use 1/5,
There are lots of classical compilation albums, although not necessarily
ones you might actually want to listen to. But they do serve a purpose.
For instance, there are a series of "Greatest Hits" albums, including
for Mozart, Beethoven and many others. These are most often recordings
of well-kn
garym wrote:
> also, in LMS > Settings > my music, be sure to set "treat multi-disc
> sets as a single album"
I suspect this is the problem, and will check later today.
The recording I was citing is in fact not ripped from a CD set but an
online/downloadable purchase, with the download as two
I've been recently ripping and then processing some music with two CDs
in the set (most recently Martin Simpson's Rooted).
I use MP3 Tag to do the processing, and it allows me to specify a CD
sequence, e.g. 1 and 2 or 1/2 and 2/2. Unfortunately this appears to
have no impact on LMS's presentatio
It's hard to see a good reason not to just rip all the separate units
separately. As noted, sometimes best-ofs or other compilations have
tracks that aren't identical to the originals, usually for worse but
sometimes for better. Best to keep them separate. The total amount of
additional storage i
I actually prefer to use Album Artist as the primary artist
identification for the particular recording, and Artist (usually
rendered as Track Artist in playback apps) for the primary individual
contributors on tracks. In most but not all cases album and track artist
are the same.
So, for Crystal
Just for the record, I use AnyDVD with DVDAudioExtractor and have never
had a problem, many DVDs ripped to flac, including Neil Young. I'd have
thought that the DVDs with the target audio tracks would be copy
protected, and I would be surprised if DVDAE can circumvent this. That's
what AnyDVD does
I'm currently immersed in a never-ending project involving botanical
taxonomy.
For a few hundred years, sorting plants into sensible groups involved
ever more precise analysis of form, or morphology as it's known in the
trade. Determining relationships among plants was an exercise in
observatio
I tried setting the compilation tag, but that didn't solve the problem.
Then I thought of the Album Artist tag -- it appears that the players
were creating individual albums by combining the album name with the
album artist. I replaced all the Album Artist tags in the compilation
with "Various A
d6jg wrote:
> Did you tag as a compilation? Otherwise I think that you do need a
> common Album Artist.
>
I don't think I did. Can you do that within MP3Tag? Don't have it here
on vacation so can't check.
LMS on a dedicated server (FitPC3)
Transporter (Ethernet) - main listening, Onkyo rec
Apesbrain wrote:
> MS has a long history of crappy music players that using default
> settings will go online, download new tag information, and update your
> files without your consent. There is a setting in Groove to turn this
> off much like there is a similar setting in WMP.
I understand th
This is an off topic post, as it has to do with taking offline what
works fine when online, using LMS.
I prepare various kinds of playlists, including ones that are
compilations of alternate versions of songs. I like to listen to the
same song done by two or more artists, in a row. It provides
Well, I'm not sure that would do what I want. Getting the taxonomies
right is one thing (using nested genres, or styles), but auto-populating
higher level categories is what I was looking for. Specifying "Chicago
Blues" would automatically populate higher-level categories. So it would
appear in
elstensoftware wrote:
> This is where I want to take bliss eventually, see
> https://www.blisshq.com/music-library-management-blog/2011/03/09/a-blissful-approach-to-automatic-genre-categorisation/
> . Currently it only works such that the tree is scanned upwards until an
> "allowable" genre is fo
I've been thinking about tagging recently, as I looked at my own
hopelessly muddled collection. Many many tags, mostly non-functional.
Begging to be rationalized. I'm particularly interested in genre tags,
as others (composer, artist, album artist, etc) are pretty
straightforward.
So this led
If you want both the embedded art and a different folder.jpg (or
alternatively cover.jpg) file, use something like dBpoweramp to remove
the embedded file, and then load the desired image back onto the
individual files. I do this all the time where tracks sometimes have
embedded images that are wa
I use DVD Audio Extractor, a nice and efficient program. It has a fully
functional free trail period, but I bought it since I do use it
occasionally. See all about it at:
http://www.dvdae.com/
I agree about the trickiness of extracting from Blu-ray. It's not
always clear what the audio tracks
I'd get a BluRay capable drive; a lot of music is being distributed on
BluRay, and you can get ripping software specifically for capturing
audio from DVD/BR. You might be best served by going the route of
buying an internal drive along with an enclosure, as suggested above.
Doesn't have to be r
w3wilkes wrote:
> Sounds like you also need to go into WMP -> Options and on the Library
> tab uncheck "Retrieve additional information from the Internet", "Rename
> music files" and "Rearrange music in rip music folder". This should help
> the next time you decide to start up WMP for whatever re
JohnB wrote:
> I have found Beyond Compare very good and very reliable - there is also
> a 30 day free trial. I mainly use it to maintain a mirror of my music
> library, etc.
>
> Assuming that your backup is a mirror of the whole of your music library
> (files and folder structure) you could use
Hi all,
I made the foolish mistake of activating WMP because I needed to burn a
CD. Sadly, it has proceeded to process all my music, include convert
all folder.jpg files to its own preferred tiny size. It pulls the image
embedded in the file, and then downsizes and creates its various image
sys
Thanks all.
After I first posted but before the suggestions came in I remembered
that I had Medieval on my system. I used it and it seemed to work all
right, but the task was pretty simple. I'll get CueTools for the next
time. I do remember the problems previously reported about Medieval.
Tha
I came across the Naxos website yesterday and thought I'd give them a
try, since there were some recordings I wanted which were offered as
FLACs at reasonable cost ($7.99). I bought and downloaded Villa-Lobos'
Symphonies 3 and 4, performed by the Sao Paulo symphony.
Unfortunately, the music is
Hi all,
I have acquired some flac files that date back to 2007, and were ripped
via EAC. I trust that there are no implications quality-wise or
other-wise for having these from an "older" version of the venerable
program. Please advise if otherwise.
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> I highly doubt that the Flim and the bb's TriCycle album wouldn't rip
> because of some kind of copy protection. It was the first non-classical
> album to be released on CD and is one of the first DDD (all digital)
> recordings.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flim_%26_the_BB's
ive to the location of the playlist file. As far as I
can tell.
It's a different issue than playlists actually created by SBS. I don't
have a clue about them, and am not interested.
Will play this weekend and re
works.
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modified file into the location of lossy music.
Think it will work? With either wpl or m3u?
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I don't know about using Audacity, but Replay Media Catcher is a very
sweet app that works like a charm to capture any audio or video stream.
See it at http://applian.com/download-videos/.
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presumably be used.
The turntable is connected to the iMic using a y-adapter (2xRCA to 1/8"
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There is also WavePad audio editor, which allows normalization of a
track list before writing. It's free for most uses. I've used it,
like it.
http://www.nch.com.au/wavepad/index.html?gclid=CITBmJqxgKgCFcq8KgodUkD1rQ
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ch album art applications.
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d mp3. Not that I'd ever notice the difference.
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It's already associated -- if I click on the file WMP opens and plays
it. It's only adding it to the library that it won't do.
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If I change the filetype to MP4, no problem. But
that's annoying. I'm kind of mystified.
I'm using WMP12 and Win7.
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being able to set the "Artist" field to read from "album
artist".
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. For use with the Squeezebox
Controller, however, you will find that representation of the image is
compromised much more by the quality of the display than by the file
format.
I'd stick with jpg in this context.
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output to both flac and mp3 in
different file locations, etc, etc.
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t info, great! Might
illuminate why the website uses the video format for audio-only files,
my original query.
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not always, uses WMA as the coding system.
However, I've been led to understand that there are quite a few music
streaming sites that use WMV as their file format. I just don't know
why. If anyone knows, tell me.
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this is dependent on the converter, but perhaps someone has
observations in general.
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As I noted, I've voted on this.
Please, if you would like the display to show your album art in the
proper way, vote on this bug!
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m was corrected with embedding the cover image in
the files, and then recopying the files to the SS file location, it does
seem as if the small thumbnail in folder view is being picked up only
from the mp3 or flac file, but this makes little sense.
Comments?
Very interesting to see the history of this bug report. Unfortunate
that it hasn't been fixed yet. The display is an important part of the
user experience.
FWIW, I've added my vote.
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saved/embedded image.
I've been using 200x200 pixels as a default. I haven't noticed that
larger images work better, but maybe there is a best-case size.
Ideas?
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meaningless, go for the highest quality.
Does have a small bit of upfront learning investment, but after that is
real slick.
Shareware (no restrictions). www.polybytes.com
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Not sure why you wouldn't use dBp for this -- has an excellent batch
function, first class conversion routines and a pretty easy interface.
The reference version (you have to pay a modest amount) will convert
very quickly using multiple processors.
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they are organized in a file structure like my default
artist/album/track.
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maggior;500532 Wrote:
> That was my reaction :-).
>
> If I did this with my music collection, it would turn into a new
> career!
Two careers.
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g a lot, but
otherwise I don't see the downside.
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ds of 8 minutes waiting for each rescan to take place.
Would like to know why this problem exists.
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hanged.
>
I'm using 7.4.1, the current "official" release. I haven't made the
change to the default settings in MP3tag, so it is not preserving file
change time. The scanner should know thow that the file has changed,
assumin
7;m sure that a full rescan would do the trick, but I've a lot of files
and it takes a long time.
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he speed of the conversion.
I don't object to the $5 per year for Metadata, and don't know if I'll
upgrade dBp when the next major upgrade comes by. It would have to have
serious features not in the current version.
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se Windows Media Player for that -- no snarkiness, please.
I'd prefer to be working with FLAC.
I gather that there are now ways of supporting flac on WMP. Advice?
Are there implications for tags?
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time. MP3tag shows the artwork as correctly associated.
It may be I'll have to do a full rescan, and see what happens. But
it's weird. I've not had the problem before.
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tracks) and
did a rescan (new and changed). Now the artwork is associated with the
individual tracks, show up on now playing, but in album view there is
still no artwork. What can I do?
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give it a try.
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n the same session did not have the problem. Reripping this CD did not
solve the problem, so it appears to be something in the tags or in the
name that causes the problem in SC (although not in other apps).
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I realized after I posted that I'd restarted the computer (and hence
SC), but hadn't actually done a rescan AFTER the restart. When I did
that, all was well, new tags reflected, etc.
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ld" tags, which actually no longer
exist. Obviously it's what is in the database, and the files are not
being rescanned when requested, because the tag changes don't flag the
file as requiring "rescanning". Or something like that.
How do I get the correct tag
r
instance) would be to choose an MP3 quality setting just above that used
to create the AAC file in the first place.
My knowledge here is pretty shaky, and I'm assuming parallels with
image compression. So I might w
at the cost of very much larger filesize.
I'm mostly converting to WMA, but sometimes to MP3. (It's a random
thing. . .
Suggestions?
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. . . you gets what you pays for. While EAC is a fine product in its
own way, it does not have the extensive feature set and ease of use of
a well-crafted modestly priced application like dbP. And I could do
without the ads on the EAC site.
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hard drives, or to otherwise different paths
and naming systems.
I've always found this to be a superior, more user-friendly tool and
still high-quality tool -- except when you really want to use the EAC
features supporting extreme rip accuracy and/or recovery from damaged
disks.
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two separate listings, see if it's in the same place. I'm always
surprised at how creative I can be in finding hiding spots for folders,
when I'm on autopilot.
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why won't it be picked up by SC when the
library is scanned? Still can't be played through iTunes, but should
be playable through SC.
Like I said, it seems I'm missing something here.
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ld be nice to know how to
check from within the program. Probably obvious, but not to me, at
least at the moment.
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use on SC, lossy for use on a portable device.
And then there is the awesome batch-convert function. Worth every
penny.
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saved in separate folders, with naming and folder structures
almost infinitely configurable. Worth every penny.
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I'm happy, thanks.
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Media Creator 10, and it
does a reasonable job quality-wise but seems very slow. Like 20 hours
to do a portion of my files.
Any suggestions of a free or cheap utility that would do the job more
efficiently?
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ownloads are in the same format as
regular iTunes, but at a higher bit rate and without DRM.
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with cover art.
That gets captured via WMP and is (I gather) available to SB for the
WMA files. Is this automated as a single process with apps like EAC?
For that matter, is EAC supported under Vista?
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I don't know how to interpret this other than to see WMA Lossless as
supported to the same extent as FLAC. Can someone confirm that this
is, in fact, NOT the case with the current hardware/firmware? Perhaps
evolut
lication at the ripping stage. Too much music to rip, not nearly
enough time to do it, rapidly vanishing patience.
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d, but I would have thought lossless was lossless), but clearly
not enough to matter to me. And aside from supporting the evil empire
(even if it's not quite as evil as Apple), what is the downside?
Please tell me.
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