Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] Help for the Beginner

2014-10-11 Thread Philip Meyer
No proxy or vpn. Go through a router with NAT and SPI. I googled it and many innocent people have same problem with the site. Seems to block whole countries or ranges of IP addrs. Philip Meyer's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] Help for the Beginner

2014-10-08 Thread Phil Meyer
But if you want really good album art, you're much better off finding it yourself manually, even though the process can be time-consuming. A great resource is the 'AlbumArtExchange' (albumartexchange.com). If you don't find something there, try using Google's Image Search. I found that Album Art

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] Help for the Beginner

2014-10-08 Thread JJZolx
Philip Meyer wrote: But if you want really good album art, you're much better off finding it yourself manually, even though the process can be time-consuming. A great resource is the 'AlbumArtExchange' (albumartexchange.com). If you don't find something there, try using Google's Image

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] Help for the Beginner

2014-10-06 Thread Firochromis
Well, I'm not sure if my first post did deserved this wonderful responses or not. There are lots of internet communities but few of them has helpful members. Thank you for your help. So, - Apparently Google Play don't have that service in my country. Thank you for the advice though. - I

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] Help for the Beginner

2014-10-06 Thread garym
Firochromis wrote: - As I said, I'm not experienced on ripping and I came to EAC with the suggestion of a friend. I haven't installed it yet, just searching. As I understand from the replies, dbpoweramp is a faster solution. If this is so, I can pay for it. dbpoweramp is not necessarily

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] Help for the Beginner

2014-10-06 Thread Firochromis
Hi, The setup guide suggested to me for EAC was this: http://filesharingtalk.com/threads/435208-Installing-configuring-and-ripping-with-Exact-Audio-Copy-%28EAC%29 Is this one good enough or are there better ones out there? Be in peace, Firat Cingi

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] Help for the Beginner

2014-10-06 Thread garym
Firochromis wrote: Hi, The setup guide suggested to me for EAC was this: http://filesharingtalk.com/threads/435208-Installing-configuring-and-ripping-with-Exact-Audio-Copy-%28EAC%29 Is this one good enough or are there better ones out there? Don't know. I don't use EAC (I use dbpa). I

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] Help for the Beginner

2014-10-06 Thread Alasdair Macdonald
I don't know anything about bogus guides, and I've only had occasion to set up EAC once or twice in the past 5 years or so, but the guide referenced looked OK to me (a non-exhaustive review). It covers the points that I would consider to be the most important, and since it documents every setting

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] Help for the Beginner

2014-10-06 Thread garym
rigsby wrote: I spent the best part of a year ripping my CD collection. For some of us there's no avoiding the fact that it will take a long time to complete; EAC is the *only* ripping software that I would trust. Yes, take your time and do it right. Rip to lossless, and spend the time

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] Help for the Beginner

2014-10-06 Thread dasmueller
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

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] Help for the Beginner

2014-10-05 Thread d6jg
Just sign up for Gmail and you will get the free Play Music storage account. The $9.99 thing is an add on like Spotify QNAP TS419P 4TB LMS7.7.2 *Living Room* - SB3 - Onkyo TS606 connected Digitally - Celestion Ditton F20s - and connected Analogue for Zone 2 - Sony TA FE 320 - Sennheiser HDR

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] Help for the Beginner

2014-10-05 Thread SlimChances
d6jg wrote: Just sign up for Gmail and you will get the free Play Music storage account. The $9.99 thing is an add on like Spotify Thanks Logitech Media Server Version: 7.9.0 - 1411484033 @ Wed Sep 24 04:01:28 UTC 2014 Operating system: Debian - EN - utf8Platform

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] Help for the Beginner

2014-10-05 Thread get.amped
JJZolx wrote: But if you want really good album art, you're much better off finding it yourself manually, even though the process can be time-consuming. A great resource is the 'AlbumArtExchange' (albumartexchange.com). If you don't find something there, try using Google's Image Search. Or

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] Help for the Beginner

2014-10-05 Thread dasmueller
anyone know of good sites for cover art for bootlegs/live recordings ? dasmueller's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=38035 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102237

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

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] Help for the Beginner

2014-10-05 Thread dasmueller
Thanks ! Will check it out. dasmueller's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=38035 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102237

[SlimDevices: Ripping] Help for the Beginner

2014-10-04 Thread Firochromis
Hi all, I'm just starting to rip my CD collection to flac and make a digital archive. I'll use EAC into this. Then I'll organize the existing mp3's, edit them and add details like genre into them. I'm a vinyl person so fairly new to this topics. What would you people advice me depending on

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] Help for the Beginner

2014-10-04 Thread jimbobvfr400
Get EAC setup properly and it will automatically rip into a decent folder structure. I.e. artist/album/track.FLAC MP3tag is one of the best tagging apps I've tried. While I've also used EAC and MP3tag for this task I'd be tempted to pay for DBPoweramp if I was doing it again.

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] Help for the Beginner

2014-10-04 Thread wortgefecht
The most important thing imho is, that you come up with your own taxonomy for genres: tag all songs with the genre *you* would file them under in a record store. Second, for the flacs: create single files for each song; albums in one file (flac+cue) is--at least for me--unpractical. If your mp3s

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] Help for the Beginner

2014-10-04 Thread Mnyb
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Beginners_Guide http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Beginners_Guide_To_Organising http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Beginners_Guide_To_Tagging http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/BeginnersGuideToClassical But basically rip with EAC or dBpower amp

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] Help for the Beginner

2014-10-04 Thread garym
Dbpoweramp is well worth the cost for doing serious CD ripping. I also second the suggestion for mp3tag as a tag editor (note it handles flac, AAC, MP3, and other file types). Both dbpoweramp and mp3tag have helpful user forums. *Location 1:* VortexBox 4TB (2.3) LMS 7.8 Transporter, Touch,

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] Help for the Beginner

2014-10-04 Thread dasmueller
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

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] Help for the Beginner

2014-10-04 Thread d6jg
+1 to backups. QNAP TS419P 4TB LMS7.7.2 *Living Room* - SB3 - Onkyo TS606 connected Digitally - Celestion Ditton F20s - and connected Analogue for Zone 2 - Sony TA FE 320 - Sennheiser HDR 130 *Office* - SB3 - Sony TA FE320 - Wharfedale Modus Cubes *Dining Room* - SB Boom *Kitchen* - UE Radio

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] Help for the Beginner

2014-10-04 Thread Shozzer
I would strongly recommend dBpoweramp for ripping. You can include album art as part of the rip which is a great timesaver. Mp3rip is great for implementing the changes you wish you had thought of when originally ripping! I have also found it great to be able to add multiple entries to fields

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] Help for the Beginner

2014-10-04 Thread get.amped
And... If you are going to go through the time and effort of ripping your CDs, go ahead and create lossless tracks (FLAC), not MP3s. Hard disc space is cheap these days and you can always use something like foobar2000 to easily convert the FLACs to lossy format as needed for mobile devices.

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] Help for the Beginner

2014-10-04 Thread SlimChances
wortgefecht wrote: Oh, and one last tip: If you have low quality mp3s (192 and lower), get yourself a free account with Google Play Music, upload those files (you can upload up to 20.000 songs) to it and then download them again. Google replaces low quality mp3s in most cases with 256 or

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] Help for the Beginner

2014-10-04 Thread JJZolx
EAC will do a very good job, but it may take you a while to learn to use it optimally. You should make sure you enable, configure and use AccurateRip in EAC. What I generally do is use burst mode to rip a CD very quickly, then generate and check the log file to see whether there has been