bmor wrote: > I have two systems, a home theatre with a Pioneer avr and a two channel > with integrated amp and cd player. I use WAV files because my Pioneer > avr will play that format directly from a USB portable hard drive, but > won't play flac, so I didn't have much choice about the format. I use a > Touch on the two channel system with a duplicate hard drive plugged in > directly. I use EAC for ripping. > > I had the problem of "unknown artist" and a few other things so I used > Foobar to check the tagging info and found it varied a lot from file to > file. What worked for me was to edit the tags and simplify the info to > Artist, CD Title, Genre and track number. I don't have access to Foobar > at the moment but I think those were the categories. > > I also think that folder structure is important. I found i need to have > an artist folder and then individual album sub-folders. On compilations > I needed to create an artist folder name and place the album folder in > it. For example, Atlantic records put out some jazz compilations of > various artists, one called Keyboards, another Best of the 50's. I had > to put the two under a folder I called Atlantic. I don't recall the > tagging I did, would have to check. Anyways, all is good now, the Touch > organizes everything as it should, so it is possible to use WAV files if > you have a reason to like I did.
I chose wav because i did not know which format to choose. I ripped my CDs using Windows Media Server and just chose one of the formats (happened to be wav) that offered the best quality of the choices offered. At this time I have no reason to prefer wav to flac. However, since my CDs are 16 bit, I don't know that the audio quality of flac would be any better than that of wav. I do, however, have some tagging issues due (I think) to the limitations of the Windows Media Player tagging system. I also have quite a few flac files that I have downloaded (mostly vinyl rips) that are 24 bit. Since Squeezebox will play both the wav and flac files I am not that concerned about leaving (for now at least) most of the CD files in wav. At this time I am just feeling my way through, trying to address the problems I encounter along the way. One recent issue is the artist listing: some are listed first name first and others are listed last name first. I can't find a way to fix that problem. Thanks for your reply. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jdt7385's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=56306 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95312 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
