Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] How to separate two different equal named albums ?

2012-04-02 Thread reinholdk
ere's something added to the album title, but a short test returned matching information. So I think I will do it... -- reinholdk reinholdk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=36070 View this th

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] How to separate two different equal named albums ?

2012-04-03 Thread reinholdk
0 dB REPLAYGAIN_ALBUM_PEAK: 0.86880493 REPLAYGAIN_REFERENCE_LOUDNESS: 89.0 dB REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_GAIN: -0.86 dB REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_PEAK: 0.68704224 TITLE: Cluster One TRACKNUMBER: 1 VENDOR: reference libFLAC 1.2.1 20070917 === end file 1 version 2 === Any id

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] How to separate two different equal named albums ?

2012-04-04 Thread reinholdk
e database and there was only a single album entry for the two album versions. -- reinholdk reinholdk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=36070 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.c

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] Tags "album artist" and compilation, important to use album artist and clr comp

2013-02-02 Thread reinholdk
garym wrote: > I can say that with 70,000+ tracks and still ripping, I've made the > decision to not use artistsort or albumsort. Initially it bothered me > to find Jimi Hendrix in J rather than H. But over the years of using > digital music files my brain has adapted and I now think in terms o

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] Tags "album artist" and compilation, important to use album artist and clr comp

2013-02-03 Thread reinholdk
Mnyb wrote: > Tull, Jehtro :) it is proper name actually Yeah, but what about "Purple, Deep" or "Zeppelin, Led"? :) reinholdk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=36070 View this thread: http://f

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] Tags "album artist" and compilation, important to use album artist and clr comp

2013-02-06 Thread reinholdk
emalvick wrote: > Besides the sillyness, I typically use Artistsort to reflect where I'd > expect to find the artist in a record store rather than any special > rule. > ... > That's how it would be filed in a record store, so that's how I filed > it. I suppose I could change given that I rarely

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] Tags "album artist" and compilation, important to use album artist and clr comp

2013-02-07 Thread reinholdk
emalvick wrote: > But, I use the Custom-Browse plug-in to only browse by Album-Artist > because that is my listening habit. When I need to find songs by a > specific track artist, then I often just use the search functions. I've > also found that by using the Android App SqueezeCommander, it sho

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] How to separate two different equal named albums ?

2013-10-29 Thread reinholdk
CharlieG wrote: > I was reluctant to rename the album because I know the Smart Mix plugin > uses the tags to create mixes. In the end I caved and re-titled the > 1968 album to “Fleetwood Mac (1968)” and LMS displayed two different > albums. Smart Mix also sees this album, so I guess that plugin

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] How to separate two different equal named albums ?

2013-10-30 Thread reinholdk
Indeed I was thinking of Michael's AlbumReview plugin when I added this comment. But since I wasn't sure (and too lazy to search) I phrased it more generally. But if my memory served me right, chances are good that Michael implemented it the same way for Smart Mix. And I always use square bracket

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] Medley song tracks are skipped for long names, or adding commas or slashes

2013-11-16 Thread reinholdk
I'd run LMS with only that single album in the music library to try isolating the problem. Can you copy it to your local hard disk, point your LMS library to that folder and do a full library scan? Before you start experimenting you can stop LMS and create a copy of the LMS cache folder to make i

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] Multiple Artist Tags

2013-12-20 Thread reinholdk
I want to revive this thread for an additional question: I'm still reluctant to use multiple artist tags since I'm not really satisfied how they are shown in the Now Playing screen. Using the previous example, when I set tags like albumartist=Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds artist=Dave Matthews;Tim

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] Multiple Artist Tags

2013-12-22 Thread reinholdk
Is the albumartist tag really needed in your case? reinholdk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=36070 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=100184

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] Multiple Artist Tags

2013-12-23 Thread reinholdk
CharlieG wrote: > I'm going to have to think this through for now as changing my tagging > scheme would be a lot of work. I will also check how much albums are affected before I change anything. :) Thanks for your thoughts anyway. ---

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] Album Artist Tag

2014-03-03 Thread reinholdk
JJZolx wrote: > This is particularly true with LMS 7.8.3, which has fixed some new & > changed scanning issues. Can Vortexbox run 7.8.3? Guess this is a typo. LMS 7.7.3 is the latest version released, while 7.8.0 is in beta and probably will not be released officially.

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] Multiple Artist Tags

2014-07-04 Thread reinholdk
vanye wrote: > And I do not tag ALBUMARTISTSORT. Is there an easy way to add it to a > large number of files? I always tag artists "naturally", i.e. firstname > lastname, e.g. Eric Clapton. Is there a action in MP3Tag that will > create an ALBUMARTISTSORT tag Clapton, Eric automatically? Don't h

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] Windows Media Player has done it again!

2014-08-07 Thread reinholdk
RonM wrote: > Now that I've turned off WMP again, I'd like to find a way to bulk copy > all the folder.jpg files in those locations where I have mp3/aac files, > from my backups to my main archive. Anyone think of any way of doing > this, other than copying the entire library? Not even sure tha

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] Help for the Beginner

2014-10-05 Thread reinholdk
For getting album art (on Windows) I'm using AlbumArtDownloader (sourceforge.net/projects/album-art/) that looks up multiple sites in parallel and presents the findings in a view from where to check details and select what satisfies you. I don't embed album art in flacs but store it as cover.jpg i

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] Tags and Total Tracks Number

2015-01-05 Thread reinholdk
I'm using the exact format for file names as shown above by garym. And as JJZolx pointed out, using mp3tag you can rename your files according to their tags. So after you've corrected your TITLE and TRACK tags in mp3tag you can bulk rename them with a built-in converter (menu 'Convert/Tag - Filena

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] ID3v1 tags

2015-03-07 Thread reinholdk
JJZolx wrote: > I[image: http://zolx.com/images/Mp3tag_Mpeg_Options.jpg] I'm in doubt about the ISO-8859-1 option. While this comprises most characters used in the "western" world (exceptions mentioned 'here' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-1#Languages_commonly_supported_but_with_inco

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] ID3v1 tags

2015-03-08 Thread reinholdk
SuperQ wrote: > I would use UTF-8 over UTF-16. Yes, I'd prefer that too, but with mp3tag it means ID3v2.4. Don't know whether all concerned devices are supporting it... reinholdk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/m

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] ID3v1 tags

2015-03-14 Thread reinholdk
dasmueller wrote: > > > Yes, the point is that you must NOT select the ID3v2 check box in the > Remove section of the tag options! reinholdk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=36070 View this thre

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] A new tagging question

2015-10-08 Thread reinholdk
Not sure what exactly you want to achieve, but if you feel brave enough you can create the regex expressions yourself with the help of an online tool. Just looked at the first that a quick search revealed (https://regex101.com) and it's a nice one explaining step by step what the expression does.

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] Classical music tagging in LMS 7.9 -- looking for hints, suggestions, and guidance

2015-12-04 Thread reinholdk
DJanGo wrote: > Dont use mp3tag for flacs - even if it looks like it should do the job. Any specific reason for this? Mp3tag does an excellent job on flacs, at least for my needs. reinholdk's Profile: http://forums.slimde

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] Classical music tagging in LMS 7.9 -- looking for hints, suggestions, and guidance

2015-12-05 Thread reinholdk
DJanGo wrote: > If you have only flacs and change the setting to never write IDvx.y and > APE just vorbis (dont know if you got that choice) it should work. > ... > Or in other Words if you tag mp3s with vorbis comments ...Na not a good > idea. Mp3tag does not work like this. It maps between tag

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] Lyrics

2015-12-05 Thread reinholdk
Fredo wrote: > Jan, thanks for the reply. What is a good Tag Editor to use on FLAC > files? You can definitely use Mp3tag for flac files. I strongly disagree with DJanGo on this. See also 'here' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?104752-Classical-music-tagging-in-LMS-7-9-looking-for-

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] LMS tagging problem

2016-02-17 Thread reinholdk
TheLastMan wrote: > Yes, nothing there. I gound a reference somewhere to an app that kills > all tags on a music file. Think I may have to go down that route. I wouldn't do this. IIRC if there are no tags then LMS tries guessing them. I'd rather try several steps like - do a full scan - removing

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] LMS tagging problem

2016-02-19 Thread reinholdk
What do you get when you remove the last track of that album and do a rescan? What tags do you have in the flac files of this album? You mentioned before that there's nothing in the 'extended tags' of mp3tag. Maybe this is a misunderstanding as the 'extended tags' view of mp3tag is a list of all

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] Compare flac to accurateip database on linux?

2016-04-14 Thread reinholdk
CUETools is running fine for me on Win10. Did you install only one version of the C runtime library? Better install both. reinholdk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=36070 View this thread: http://f

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] HDCD - Decoding and audio tags what's easiest?

2016-11-30 Thread reinholdk
Check the -map_metadata option of ffmpeg. Not sure if this works through the pipes you're using. reinholdk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=36070 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/sho

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] FLAC: Album Artist not working correctly - or at all really

2017-02-24 Thread reinholdk
As DJanGo mentioned, remove the COMPILATION tag from the files. And of course, if you have different ARTIST tags in an album, make sure that all files have identical ALBUMARTIST tags. And I'd remove ALBUM ARTIST and ARTISTS tags but use only one spelling. ARTISTSORT and ALBUMARTISTSORT is ok if yo

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] A strange thing ....

2018-10-17 Thread reinholdk
I've also seen such wrong detections once or twice with ~2000 CDs. reinholdk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=36070 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109604 ___

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] Band tag in dsf files

2018-11-10 Thread reinholdk
Blackfiction wrote: > Thanks. Do you know how to fix it? I'm using mp3tag, which I think uses > ID3v2 tags... Mp3tag reads&writes different types&versions of tags. But having multiple tag versions in parallel time might cause issues. So first check that mp3tag shows a single tag type for your t

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] Greatest Hits album with embedded single covers

2019-02-20 Thread reinholdk
IIRC, embedded covers have higher priority than the extra cover file. reinholdk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=36070 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=110204

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] How to tag a lot of non-album tracks?

2019-11-07 Thread reinholdk
Rnee wrote: > > I wonder if it's possible to get the correct dates, genre and album > titles in some way, without doing this manually since I already have > spent a lot of time on this. > Especially dates and genre are important for advanced searches. You shouldn't expect too much 'correctness