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I am still in the beginning stage of all this but am pretty happy w how
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s the text file from a downloaded
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2x in the My Music directory it
would be simple but they do not.
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Does anybody have any ideas A) how I can persuade the flac converter to
work
Cannot remember where I found it, but once your CD is ready to rip if
you click on the MP3 icon on the left it should auto convert to the
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ip it to no avail. It plays in several CD and DVD
players in the house without a hitch. Any ideas why this would happen
?
Clueless in Wisconsin
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the outside edge which I have not noticed on other CDs.
Thanks to all for your suggestions. I will probably try to find someone
w another copy and try that or see if I can find a download.
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Also it appears that many of the artwork folders lost the jpg suffix in
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what the situation is. Any thoughts on the ramifications of unchecking
the selection to make the extensions visible ?
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Just Installed but have not tried yet. I did notice the MP3 button that
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a new computer the other one is ded. For some reason it does not auto
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did just get an error about the external compressor re the additional
command line options. Previously I entered them the way they seem to be
w spaces. This time I entered wo spaces and got the error. No clue. I
am off to try again
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le in FLAC and click encode the GUI flashes on the screen for just a
split second. Nothing happens and there is no error message. I was able
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om the Squeezebox wiki. Perhaps
I did something wrong. Though it appears Windows 7 may be an issue
here.
I can click add files in FLAC and add them from a folder but they do
not convert. That is where I get the momentary flash of what I believe
to be the encod
business ripping
to FLAC. My Program path was incomplete.
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numbering mess? Is the track numbering step necessary or a waste of
time? Should there be a dash between track # and title ? Another
solution ?
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aubuti and JJZolx thank you both for your responses. I will in ther
future either leave a space or insert a dash between the track number
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I did one disc w Mp3Tag freedb today w no issue.
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Check out my earlier post in this forum-Don't know what I am doing wrong
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I had problems installing EAC on a new Windows 7 PC The link provided
by Apesbrain works. Many of the wikis are confusing and may not work
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When Ripping EAC hesitates at approx 33 seconds of the 1st track on
every disc. I have not noticed an issue w playback. Just wondering why
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to me it keeps the integrity of the music where it should
be and eliminates the size constraints of discs.
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Johnson and saving your entries ?
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Check through what is here and I would suggest then playing w the
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what is important to you and works best in the
navigation process to find a recording.
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anal about how you tag your music in order to acheive the best results.
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It sounds as if you want to see the albums themselves in the order they
appear in the book when searching using the My Music/Album fields. If
that is the case and In The Wee Small Hours was album 26 I would name
the album 0026 In The
EXBOX\files\music\flac to use as a starting point for Explorer.
>
> Thanks for this. I was not aware of this feature and it is sure to save
> the tedious navigation I was doing !!
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connect my backup drive and add/change both. Its just way simpler that
way. If you are concerned about tag changes being the same just copy the
corrected file to the other location and delete the old one.
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I am in the process of putting together a compilation album for the 1st
time. It will be all the same artist with tracks from different
sources.
Is there a simple way w MP3Tag to level the volume of all tracks ?
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using the random mix option. I doubt I would ever burn a Cd of a
compilation. The only time I listen to a CD anymore is in the car.
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"SmartGain" that will automatically
choose track gain or album gain depending on whether the tracks in the
current playlist are from the same album or a mix from different
albums."
Thanks for this tip. I did not find the setting on the Web UI so I went
t
not know there is an app for LMA which gives access
to the database on your Squeezebox and can also be used w Squeezeplay.
I wonder if a discussion of other LEGAL download sites might be
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Replaygain to classical ?
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> RG tags would save you from adjusting the volume knob on your amp,
> provided your LMS settings were either Album gain or SmartGain.
Thanks Gary. I'll be curious to see how long it takes to analyze 24k
I so it doesn't get used at all.
> Can't hurt to have the tag info in my opinion.
Thanks gary. Now I will be curious to see how long it takes to process
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Wish more of the folks in the official forum would post
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doing something wrong/have a bad install ?
Will look at some of the unsupported/corrupted files, but am missing
most of the library w this scan ?
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In Mp3Tag go through each file one by one and right click. Select
extended tags look for tags that could be causing issues
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Music San Diego 11-1-08 d2. It works fine and then
there is no additional field to fill in.
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appear one after the other which is OK for me. After d1 is done playing
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The album is a live concert downloaded from TTD Gillian Welch Live And
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I was trying to delete it incorrectly. It's now gone.
They are FLAC files. The WAVEFORM portion made me think it was somehow
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wellgoodjackson wrote:
> i know a simple way to easily playback flac files on car stereo whatever
> the car stereo supports flac or not
>
> but i can not provide a url in this post
>
> so just google search Step by Step Guide on How to Play FLAC in Car
> Stereo or Radio
>
> you will find the d
I normally use EAC to rip but have never used this facet of the program.
I would be interested in knowing others experience with how well it
works for tracks that were not accurately ripped. Thanks in advance for
your thoughts.
It sounds as if you are searching with the artist field. You could use
the artist field and name official releases for example "The Band" for
the album Music From Big Pink. Then name bootlegs "The Band bootlegs"
for The Lonestar Cafe 1986 for that show. In this way they will show as
a separate art
Would this require a clear library and rescan everything or will a look
for new and changed media files work ?
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Please forgive my lack of knowledge. In the past I have used EasyTag for
most tagging as it was the program I first learned to use. I decided to
play around some w Mp3Tag today and have run into an issue I cannot
resolve. If I edit for example the title field of track 01 I can save
the change wi
Thanks. I think I have it figured out now. I removed the check mark from
the show messages after save box under Tools/Options/Messages. That
solved the pesky message dialog box from appearing.
I had been editing using the Tag Panel. I tried the in line metod after
removing the check from Tag Pane
Yes, it actually works quite nicely. The OK msg was a PIA I am glad I
decided to play with it. I just figured it would be nice to learn
something new today.
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Just tried that by changing the filename to tag string to title rather
than album and batch converted a whole album in one shot. Works pretty
nice as long as the filename is what one wants in the title field.
I just wish their Help section was more helpful. It appears to be geared
towards people
Thanks JJ
I especially like the Action Group idea to change the filename to
reflect the title. I will definitely try this out when the occasion
arises.
Thanks again.
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I copied a folder to play w the action group tip. In the title field I
always put a track number prior to the title of the track. This
resulted in double numbers in the Filename field.
What did I do wrong, or how do I correct this ?
How do I save this Action Group so it does not need to be recr
Not following JJ. If I place the Cursor over the Aa icon w the down
arrow it says quick actions. The other Aa icon gives a list; in neither
is there a selection for new. I am running v2.49b. Will test the
solution for duplicate track #s. I plan to also play around w
converting-wrong term maybe, th
Cleaning up tags is an ongoing process. Somebody here-possibly garym
once stated that it is something to be anal about. I totally agree w
that point of view. The better the tags the better everything works.
One can get along w less than perfect tags but it's not as good as
having your tags as bes
Thanks to all for your suggestions/tips etc. !!
This is going to be fun !
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I know this is not the way you want to do it, but if you are
unsuccessful otherwise you might try using the ALBUM tag to show
supporting artists ie-
Wyclef Jean ...
Wyclef Jean feat. Cypress Hill .
etc.
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Revisited this today due to some issues a friend was having w files I
had sent. Just wanted to thank again all of those who contributed
earlier and bring it to the fore so that those who may have questions
can explore a bit. I really like MP3Tag but wish it had a more
comprehensive Help/User guide
Are your files primarily/all from commercially released recordings ?
That is where the databases associated w various software programs would
be most helpful. If you have files from live concerts downloaded over
the internet the chances of having a particular recording in one of the
databases is
The above advice should give you a fine start on your task of digitizing
your music library.
One thing that I did not see mentioned is that you should make several
copies of the digitized library. Backups are critical as sooner or later
the drive/drives it is on will fail. You are going to expend
anyone know of good sites for cover art for bootlegs/live recordings ?
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I have used EAC w no problems. I do not remember what I used for a setup
guide. That being said here is one you might look at if you have not
already-
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Beginners_guide_to_installing_EAC
MP3Tag is a great program to use for tagging your files. Availbale here
for free-
http://www.mp3tag.de/en/
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I have been systematically reviewing the tags in my library for the last
several days using MP3Tag. My primary focus has been on the Title field
where I have found examples such as-
example 1- The Wind cries Mary
no track number and "cries" is not capitalized
example 2- 01The Wind Cries Mary
garym wrote:
> h, I'm surprised that file names would have anything to do with the
> reporting of total tracks in LMS. LMS is not reporting track numbers
> based on the filename itself (and your examples are all track numbers
> contained in filenames). In fact, as far as I know, LMS doesn't
They are all organized in one directory with each album/live concert in
a separate folder. If it were not for the fact that some folders have
artwork and some do not I could right click and select properties to get
a file total.
I am mostly curious as to why the total # changed and if that would
So, your suggestion is that I do not have the track number in the title
field as JJZolx said earlier. I suppose I could start over and delete it
from the Title field. I am still confused as to why the # of tracks
changed, and also how to see that in foobar2000 ?
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As I delve into this further I get more confused as to how LMS actually
is using the metadata attached to files. I loaded my entire 30K+ library
into MP3tag and scrolled through a small part of it. It seems that the
track number field is not critical in that some of my files have 01,
some 1 and so
Thanks gary.
I guess I am still confused as to what fields from MP3tag LMS actually
uses.
In the long run I am guessing I will still go through everything to try
and make it consistent across the board.
Am I missing something ?
JJZolx wrote:
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> As for total files ... that's just a file count and has nothing to do
> with the metadata. One way to get a count: When you load the library in
> Mp3tag, it should show you a file and time total in the lower right
> corner.
Very interesting. I never knew this was there.
I just loaded my library into MP3tag and it showed 30683. LMS shows
30722. This is not really a big deal. I am just trying to understand why
the numbers in LMS change when I do not add or delete tracks. I was
hoping that I would be pointed to something in my tagging process that
was preventing LMS
If I enter .m3u or .cue into the search field in Mp3tag I get no
results.
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> Try DVD Audio Extractor: http://www.castudio.org/dvdaudioextractor/
>
> The program supports ripping directly to 2 channel (stereo) flac files.
This link is not working. Does anybody have a safe link that does, or
know of a similar program
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also found a bunch of text files but after copying and pasting the to a
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Done I now have 4 less image files-deleted and 40 less total tracks.
We'll see how things go now w the numbers as I review the tags.
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> Now you are just 1 file off in totals. Search your directories for any
> *.mp4 files. These are video but MP3tag counts them. I bet you have one
> of these somewhere.
I must have been unclear in a previous post. Not sure how you figured I
was I file off ?
I deleted 4 image files.
Thanks for the link !
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Now I understand. I had not been posting about the daily changes I have
been seeing and forgot about the earlier #s. Still the same today as
yesterday, although I did not get to much reviewing yesterday.
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I run a new & changed scan nightly. I have done a clean cache including
media library database, artwork cache etc. several times in the last
week. I find that to be less than informative as I am not able to see
anything happening and then need to do a complete rescan.
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This still baffles me. Yesterday LMS control panel showed 30,690 total
tracks. During the course of the day I deleted one folder that I found
to be a duplicate. It contained 9 tracks. This morning the total is
30,701. There has to be something that triggers these changes that I
still do not unders
I was contemplating changing the album/artist field and the composer
field to blank. I never myself entered anything in either of those 2
fields.
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garym wrote:
> Good point. I suspect by 'ALBUM/ARTIST' he means "ALBUM ARTIST" or
> "ALBUMARTIST".
correct
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I ran across a new problem this morning while reviewing tags. I loaded a
folder into Mp3Tag and attempted to make some changes to the files. The
folder has 10 files but with 3 of them it says that they cannot be
accessed. I checked the properties and full control was not assigned to
the folder. Th
I reloaded the folder into Mp3Tag and selected one of the problem files.
I then right clicked and selected extended tags. Mp3Tag then stopped
working and shut down. Do I have files that are somehow corrupted ?
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This becomes stranger yet. I ran a Look for new and changed media files.
After that completed I reloaded the folder into Mp3Tag and all the
changes I had tried to make earlier are there.
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They are FLAC files. See my last post. It appears that there may have
been a hiccup in Mp3Tag as all changes appeared after a new and changed
scan.
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I have been working on cleaning up my tags. I noticed in the Squeezeplay
wiki this morning that it is recommended that one remove ID3v1 tags.
Does anyone know why ?
When I looked at Mp3tag-Tools-Options-Tags-MPEG I noticed that both
ID3v1 and ID3v2 were selected for Read, Write and Remove. I have
I spot checked some folders that contain only FLAC files and it appears
that the tags are only FLAC (FLAC). At least that is all that shows in
the Tag column.
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Thanks for the ideas. Having a backup before doing the revision is
something I sometimes forget. The filter search is a good idea as well.
I am currently using that to add artwork in places where it is missing.
When done w that will proceed w the ID3v1 filter.
Thanks again folks !
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I finally got to the point where I was comfortable updating my backup
before attempting to remove the ID3v1 tags. Deleted the backup and
copied over my library last night through this morning so I now have a
"cleaner" backup.
It appears that there may have been a step missing. After hitting the
I thought it strange as well. The files that had ID3v1 tags also had the
ID3v3.2 tags along w the ID3v1. ID3v.1 was the only checked box in the
remove field. At least I was able to get through it and thank goodness
for the undo button ! Will be curious to see how scans go moving
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Looking at my library the other day I found an album that did not show
where I thought it should, but under various Artists. I could not figure
it out until this morning when I loaded it into MP3Tag and selected
Extended Tags. There was the compilation field. One track had
compilation 1. The other
I used Easytag several years back and switched to MP3Tag. I still have
Easytag on my PC and tried to find extended tags w no success. That does
not mean it cannot be done. Perhaps someone else will chime in w a
method for you. There does not seem to be any help pages that would
quickly lead one to
I have gone through my music folders and renamed them to be more
consistent. Previously there was no real pattern to how they were named
except the Artist was always 1st. After that there was no real pattern
the venue might be next or the date, and the date format was
inconsistent. Now I have Arti
Thanks gary ! That is exactly what I was looking for. Works like a
charm.
Unfortunately when I went through all my folders I only corrected the
parent folder and not the subfolders. I will need to go back and fix all
those as well. Damn. Maybe after I get back from N California.
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Here's an example of how things are now-
Parent folder-Radiators 1985-6-2 Willebskis St Paul, w Subfolders
Radiators Willebskis St Paul 6-2-1985 d1, Radiators Willebskis St Paul
6-2-1985 d2, Radiators Willebskis St Paul 6-2-1985 d3.
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Yes, they show as "Radiators Willebskis St Paul 6-2-1985 d1" instead of
Radiators 1985-6-2 Willebskis St Paul d1. It appears that MP3tag is
pulling the info from the subfolder rather than the parent folder.
Point taken re not burning. The only time I do that is to give something
to someone who l
I may get to that later. And thanks for your thoughts/help.
Did you notice that there is a new Dave and Phil album out ?
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