Also, you mention it is keeping the original artwork. That sounds to me
like the artwork is embedded in the tags. Have you tried removing the
artwork with a good tag editor?
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of artists out there who still value dynamics and
make sure they are preserved in their performances and recordings. Some
of my faves such as Peter Gabriel and Cowboy Junkies stand out, but
there are others, too.
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And the Slim Devices wiki has a very good article on using mp3tag:
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Mp3tag
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of ID3v-everything and replace
them with Vorbis comments, which is the proper tagging form for FLAC.
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in the help file or the dBpa forums. It will
save you a fair amount of time cleaning up after the conversion.
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point. Worked just fine. So you should be good
to go on the m3u files.
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RonM;658014 Wrote:
Only thing to do is to try it and see if it works.
That's what I'd suggest. You say that the path should be
self-referential based on where the playlist is located, but I'm not at
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think you should be good to go.
There are also some posts that have indicated problems with hi-res WMAL
on older SBs such as the Duet Receiver. Are your files hi-res or
16/44.1?
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earlier version of SBS, say, 7.5.x or earlier. SBS 7.6.x introduced
stricter case-sensitivity in handling of tags/metadata. Of course, the
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Is this one of those cases covered by one of the oldest unresolved bugs
in Squeezebox history, 'Bug 112'
(http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=112)?
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is for me. And it's no doubt accentuated by the fact
that the Beatles' 1 tops the list. I like their real albums well
enough, but doubt I've listened to 1 more than once.
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MrSinatra;649699 Wrote:
if FLAC, just open in audacity, reverse the channels, and save. (u
could do that with mp3, but better just to rerip imo then do that)
I haven't used audacity in a long time. Can it edit FLAC files directly
now? It used to require transcoding to WAV.
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will confirm that it's the rip and not something else.
Unfortunately, if that confirms that it's in the rip, I don't know of a
software solution for you. But one may well exist.
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That's the way I would recommend doing it. Essentially, get away from
unnecessary constraints imposed on the pieces by the limits of CD
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the v2.3
tag contents. So the Disk 1 is probably lurking in the v1 or APE
tags.
SBS doesn't handle multiple tag types well, so I completely agree with
MrSinatra and garym: use mp3tag to delete everything except v2.3 tags
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Robin Bowes' program flac2mp3.pl is a Perl script that does exactly what
you're looking for. Earlier versions did not embed album art in the
MP3s, but I believe the current version does. You can search for it on
these forums, or at www.robinbowes.com.
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Mnyb;636817 Wrote:
Can dBp tagg already ripped stuff ?
I don't think so, and I recall 'spoon' saying (or someone saying that
spoon said) that the commercial database holders wanted a lot more
money to license the databases for post-rip use.
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But it raises another question who exactly are they doing business with
?
Scroll down to the bottom of this page and you'll get at least a
partial answer: http://www.allmusic.com/about
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and has a lot of metadata fields that others don't have. But it's still
weak on classical.
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to require quite a bit of manual effort on your
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it's
doing what you want
3) be on the lookout for exceptions to the rule. Compilation albums
(Various Artists) often fit a different pattern.
4) have a current backup
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as last, first when
browsing? I perfectly understand sorting by last, first and
browsing/displaying by first last, because that's how I always
arranged my physical media (LPs, cassettes, CDs). But browsing by
last, first and displaying by first last is a new one to me.
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T-bird;635423 Wrote:
running 7.5.4 and the files is mp3 and only tag is id3v2.3
I shall take a look on TORY tag, don't know what it is
TORY = original release year in ID3v2.3
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If you want it displayed as lastname, firstname then you should change
the ARTIST tag accordingly. And if you do that, then you don't need to
worry about the ARTISTSORT tag at all.
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about in each case?
In general, SBS sorts on ARTISTSORT, and if ARTISTSORT doesn't exist,
it sorts on ARTIST. It displays based on ARTIST in either case.
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First Name, Surname i.e Elton John or Kate
Bush.
*Which* display? On the SBS web ui? On the SB Controller? On the
Touch's or Radio's LCD? On the SB3/Classic's VFD? On your iPhone?
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by album seems obvious to me. It's easy to add
replaygain to your whole library with tools like foobar2000, Winamp,
apply_replaygain.pl (all free) or dBpoweramp (not free, but worth it
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of iTunes re-adding tracks when
doing it that way, but I must have just been mis-remembering iTunes as
worse than it really is.
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backup copy of your library after deleting the date tag?
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, but there is a
reasonable argument for a production decision to deliberately vary the
relative levels of the tracks.
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the gain on the soft tracks you'll get a noticeable jump
in the audience noise between tracks as well. Yuck.
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The new parent site (Amplifind) appears to have the 1.8.1b package here:
http://www.amplifindmusicservices.com/what/downloads.php
And 1.6 appears to be available still via CNet:
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) instead of a, b, c, etc. It could
save you some extra tag editing if you acquire the middle album later
on. Of course, MMM wouldn't work if the artist released two albums
in the same month!
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tagging in my
opinion. And some had some filename conventions that are a little odd.
But nothing that couldn't be fixed in a few minutes with mp3tag. On the
other hand, some have nice extras like PDFs of the CD booklet, lyrics
sheets, and so on.
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Gazjam;625434 Wrote:
I used Flac Frontend/Flac Tester to test the files, is that a similar
thing?
I believe it does the exact same thing, with the Test button on FLAC
Frontend simply a graphical interface (frontend) to executing the flac
-t etc command.
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MrSinatra;624029 Wrote:
i'm just looking for a simple, straightforward utility.
It doesn't get much more straightforward or compact (or customizable)
than Robin B's flac2mp3.pl script. That is, unless you don't already
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program, one that will show you all the extended tags. If you're on
Windows, mp3tag is by far your best bet. Be sure to look at any albums
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In addition to the ARTISTSORT and ALBUMARTISTSORT tags, be on the
lookout for various MusicBrainz tags, which also create havoc
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Glad to hear it was something simple and not some bizarro
previously-unencountered case.
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It would be possible (Pandora and Slacker do). Vote for 'Bug/enhancement
2431' (http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2431) to express your
support for SB finding a way to use it. Note, however, that the request
has been around for 5+ years, so don't hold your breath.
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souwalker;613948 Wrote:
There is a 'TOTALTRACKS: 9' in the 1st track on disc one where this
'TOTALTRACKS' is not repeated in the 1st track of the 2nd CD. That is
the only difference I can identify.
What happens if you delete the TOTALTRACKS tags and the DISCNUMBER
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finnbrodersen;613963 Wrote:
The last bullet (keep all files in the same dir) is not mandatory, I
keep my multi CD sets in directories like this xxx (CD 1) xxx (CD
2) etc.
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Besides there being few applications that write tags for .wav, there
really aren't any generally-accepted wav tagging standards. So even
after you put tags in the wav files, you can't be sure that the app
playing the files will read the tags the way you intended.
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Phil Leigh;612110 Wrote:
The actual problem is that there is no one widely accepted standard.
There are a variety of very poorly supported (and often poorly
implemented) quasi-standards.
That's the great thing about standards: there are so many to choose
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I don't know if dBpoweramp deals with cue sheets at all, but for
converting from one format to another the dBpoweramp Batch Converter
(part of the dBpa Reference package) is excellent.
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Did you make sure that your tag types are kosher? FLAC files should only
have FLAC tags (actually Vorbis comments), and not any ID3v1 or ID3v2
tags. This will be shown in the Tag column (tag_read).
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Have you taken a look at Erland's Multi-Library plugin? I've never used
it, but it sounds like exactly what you're looking for.
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Multi_Library_plugin
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wouldn't slam them right up
against each other simply because it looks ugly. I use Track - Artist -
Title.flac.
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and it
will find both your FLAC and MP3-only files. And you can point your
portable player to \music\mp3, and it will find the files in both
\music\mp3 and \music\common_mp3.
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in there. A
couple of my favorites are Little Feat studio concerts from 1973.
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paulster;602031 Wrote:
You could also consider a shadow library.
Or REconsider a shadow library, since the OP has already said he
doesn't want to do that (post #1 #3).
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Try the decaf next time.
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Like I said - I don't want to have to maintain 2 libraries (one
lossless, one not) or only be able to dump to the car non 24 bit files.
Do iPods support 24-bit files? I honestly don't know, but I'd want to
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with a large selection of different
sizes/sources for album art. It displays them all as good sized
thumbnails in a child window, so the user can just choose one. So on
that feature EAC and dBpa are probably tied now.
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doesn't match any in the AccurateRip database.
As for dBpa tutorials I'm not sure what's out there. It seemed pretty
straightforward to me, but you should at least check out
http://www.dbpoweramp.com/ and http://forum.dbpoweramp.com/.
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fillmore;597422 Wrote:
it may be easier, but probably isnt as accurate.
Care to elaborate on that little comment? I mean, if any ripper rips a
CD and the CRC checksum _exactly_ matches what 5, 10, or 50 other users
have done, why would you think it's less accurate?
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setting on SBS and see if the volume differs.
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tags for one of your problem cases here.
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Use mp3tag to see if you have multiple tag types in that file. If so,
use mp3tag to delete the tag types you don't want. For FLAC files you
should only have Vorbis comments, and for MP3 you should have only
ID3v2.3. Sometimes ID3v1 and/or Ape tags get into the mix and confuse
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Music Folder browse.
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perfectly. Perhaps you need to rescan the file(s) in foobar2000? I did,
although I don't know if that was necessary.
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having
frequencies less than 22kHz would be a lousy criterion to distinguish
one track from another.
If the original source material was 44.1, then it won't have
frequencies greater than 22kHz, and upsampling won't magically add
sound at those frequencies.
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seamlessly with SBS.
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It's offering me the chance to upgrade for $14 (+ tax) for a single PC
And apparently one of the features of R14 is non-expiring subscription
to the PerfectMeta service, thus saving $5/year on that.
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.
Make sure that the FLAC compression level is the same as what you used
in step 1.
4. Compare the two sets of files. You can do this via the FLAC
checksums, or using a utility like diff. They should be perfectly
identical. If they're not, then you have errors in the iTunes-ripped
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can decide if it's worth your time to get that extra level of certainty.
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RonM;567593 Wrote:
I haven't read all 10 pages of post, but a cursory look-through didn't
reveal a dBPoweramp suggestion.
Actually dBpoweramp entered the discussion at 'post #60'
(http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?p=327669highlight=dbpoweramp#post327669).
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files are
wasted on iPods and such. There are various tools available that make
creating a parallel library of FLACs and MP3s very easy. Two that stand
out are dBpoweramp Batch Converter and flac2mp3.pl.
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will get the job done more quickly, especially the encoding/transcoding
part. But whatever you do, don't put the CD in the drive more than once,
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can read. I don't remember if Songbird can edit metadata, but I'm sure
foobar2k and MusicIP can.
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/ P Diddy / Diddy
and many others
But those are easy to deal with compared to genres! ;o)
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I could be wrong, but that's the impression I get from the documentation
and perusing the comments in the code. So yes, you would have to correct
a filename typo twice (one in FLAC, once in MP3) instead of just once.
As noted, corrections to tags are done automatically.
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This thread has two such tools. One is defining an action (like a
macro) in mp3tag, the other is a Perl script. I haven't tried the Perl
script, but the mp3tag action works for me.
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78059
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