I'll just add that eac3to is also a good way to decode HDCDs since it
can take 16-bit flac input and yield 24-bit flac output files, retaining
all the tags and embedded cover art.
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Ah, I love the smell of spam in the morning...!
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any new files or tag changes, so your MP3s will always be up to date.
It's more effort to set up than one of the applications like FooBar but
is well worth the effort if you plan to always maintain two libraries.
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For reasons unknown nearly every car stereo I've looked at the
specifications of that can play CDs of MP3s is limited to ID3V1 tags.
These are years out of date so it's really about time they got their
houses in order, but this is a likely source of problems.
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ever only want to listen to
one disc then I'd separate them, but I don't have any like that.
I like to get one album entry, one piece of artwork and replaygain tags
that treat the entire album as a whole.
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I like 600x600 from www.albumartexchange.com. They're beginning to have
larger images too, but I find 600x600 works perfectly for how I use SBS.
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he image you give it.
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one then, and clearly nothing to do with your
faad version.
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ation you could maybe
try a new version of faad for doing the decoding and see if that solves
the problem.
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ng on your use case.
I think this could be a a useful script for plenty of people, so why
piss on it if it's of no benefit to you?
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being added as well lately).
It's also amazing to see just how many variants there are of album
covers for the same title, with different emphasis on titles, etc. for
different markets.
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All mine are 600x600 ultra-low compression jpegs (averaging 285KB)
embedded and I don't see any performance problems with them at all.
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Have a look at Erland's plug-ins. I think his Custom Scan one would
probably be the one that would do what you want.
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Yup, mine runs every night to ensure that my MP3 library properly
mirrors my FLAC library with all my tags, cover art, etc. properly
maintained.
And if I'm really in a hurry to get something onto an iPod I also just
kick off a conversion of a particular album manually.
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Then cancel that so you don't actually apply the change and add
ReplayGain tags less than or equal to this value.
Don't go over it or you'll be able to hit digital clipping at playback
time.
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rtwork yourself if you
actually care about the quality of it, and then using MP3tag to add it
afterwards, or drag and drop it into your ripping application.
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Click any of Bob Dylan's albums and then you'll see two fields at the
top:
Artist: Bob Dylan
Album Artist: Bob Dylan
Click the album artist hyperlink and you'll see only the Bob Dylan
albums.
Yes, it's a bit more long-winded but it does at least work.
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all the caches after updating tags is a
non-starter.
It isn't an issue for me anyway as I never run a full database rescan,
as there's no need in my setup.
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se.
My main library has over 1000 albums in it in FLAC format with rock
solid behaviour from the tags and covers, but it did take a bit of work
up front to ensure that the tags were consistent and correct, and a
decision to go with embedded
Do you have more than one tag type in the file?
For example MP3tag will quite happily write ID3v2 tags and leave ID3v1
and/or APE tags behind in an MP3 file unless you've told it
specifically to delete the old tags.
Just a thought.
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u can apply in conjunction with the
software you have.
I use Adobe Photoshop, the TWAIN driver for the scanner, and the Sattva
Descreen and Noise Reduction plugins for scanning mine, which yields
superb results but is a lot of effort.
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mp3tag will work on multiple files and directories at one time, so you
could temporarily move the affected folders into one parent folder and
let mp3tag scan that, highlight all files, remove images, save, and
then move the folders back to their proper locations.
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en it's
definitely a file/directory permissions issue.
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as advertised with
whatever third-party system you hook it up to.
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your FLAC library and only
does the conversion when the file is accessed. I've seen this for
Linux systems so it should be supportable on Mac as well.
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sort out the filenames to match. If you do this,
however, be prepared for the possibility of a clear and rescan so the
database is properly populated.
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And take a look at the excellent (and free) MP3tag utility for tagging
MP3 and FLAC files.
Lots of people here use it and have expertise in it, so if you're new
to tagging it's a good one to be using as it'll make it easy to get
some support from this community.
, you'll have to use
something other than iTunes to load the music onto it because it
definitely does not support FLAC files.
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Yup, that's the best way to organise your library for this particular
scenario, in my opinion.
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didn't
actually overlook.
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rate MP3 sounds pretty good in the
sub-optimal listening environment.
It may be some food for thought for you.
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That's about what I do. I put basic tags in using DVD Audio Extractor
and then tidy them up afterwards in MP3tag.
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I'm fairly sure DVD Audio Extractor can take an ISO file as source, as I
believe I've done that before with some of my concert DVDs.
There's a fully-functional 30-day download available but,
unfortunately, it's Windows only.
I don't know of a Linux solution
Poikosoft Easy CD-DA Extractor in correct and repair mode works really
well with copy-protected CDs.
I bought it back when I first got an iPod and was struggling to get a
number of copy-protected CDs on and have been using it ever since.
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quite easy as soon as you look at the start of the file to find
the section you're looking for.
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Rockbox looks nice, but apparently external interfaces to the iPod won't
work with it.
That's a show-stopper for me because one of my iPods is installed in my
car, and requires the head unit to operate it.
That's why I want Apple to fix the bug, but I'm not holding my br
my iPod library is my
automatically-generated MP3 library that I've raised bug reports to
Apple for each version of the iPod we have in the house (4) to try to
convince them to do something about it.
Both the iPod and iTunes support the TCMP (compilation) flag
he cache, but not for the same
albums. Your browser will also do the same.
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lect View Image and then press F5
to refresh the cache rather than delete the entire browser cache.
The SBC doesn't update its thumbnails until it has been turned off and
on again seemingly.
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ten
wrong version of the actual cover that an auto-downloader has found.
Just as an example, there are 7 different versions of the cover for
AC/DC's Back in Black in common circulation, and that's about one of the
sim
mend
using a 600dpi scan, but I can elaborate more if you need.
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Whatever method you choose I'd recommend looking at
www.albumartexchange.com for really high quality artwork. There's a lot
of exceptionally nice work there.
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problem one) and run it just against that subset.
It should be fairly easy to get to the bottom of the problem ones and
therefore how best to attack finding any others in your library.
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You could always start it again, forcing a transcode, since it's only
going to overwrite what's there with the same again but meantime you'll
be able to use the library.
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the morning. It only works on the files that have changed so it runs
pretty quickly.
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If you're on DOS then the output goes to stdout, so you can append a
>filename to the command to log all of the output to a filename of your
choosing for review afterwards.
Your command will be something like:
flac2mp3.pl flaclibrarypath mp3librarypath > flac2mp3.log
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version of the modification to catch $ signs as well and
I've just verified that it's working fine on Windows and Linux with both
backticks and dollar signs, so I'm very happy with the solution.
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nt a change to the code if it meant it wasn't going to catch me
out in future (same with the backticks issue).
Paul
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Scan for new and changed should be all that you need to do when you've
been editing tags. I always change the timestamps on all of the tracks
in the same album to ensure that it gets picked up, and then it'll
effectively be treated as a new album replacing the old one.
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ually a shortcut/symlink to your MP3 or
other folder within your iTunes library.
That way both players would see a complete library, and the only
duplication would be between the FLAC and MP3 equivalents.
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es I can see. So I think the 'Jaikoz alias' tool does something wrong
> when embedding JPG art work.
I think you've answered your own question. I use only embedded JPG
artwork from Easy CD-DA Extractor (or MP3TAG if I update the image) and
it works perfectly,
e standard version and compare to see if it's
something I've introduced and then progress from there.
It doesn't seem to cause any problems for me though, and the only one
I've run into so far was a filename with a $ sign in
ry to figure it
out, but do either of you know that the likely cause is?
Robin - I'll raise a ticket if this is something new.
Cheers
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bug? A Google for this didn't
yield much information.
Cheers
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We have a winner!
Just got that modified version of flac2mp3 up and running in 5 minutes
flat on my Debian machine. Another 5 minutes to get the tag mapping
perfect for ARTISTSORT, ALBUMSORT, etc. and I'm really happy with the
results.
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That looks perfect. I'll give it a go.
Thanks
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x27;t
reconvert correctly tagged files and I can run it from a cron job to
keep the shadow library up to date without doing unnecessary
conversions.
What turned me off originally was that every thread I came across
mentioned embedded cover art as a limitation. Has this now been
resolved?
I'd like something that uses the LAME encoder preferably so I can set
the quality options I'd prefer (i.e. as close to FLAC as I can get but
still portable if I need the MP3s for other uses, so Apple Lossless is
out). Windows, DOS or Linux is fine.
Cheers
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