Here is what I use, for what it's worth... I have a collection of about 20k songs and have migrated from Windows/Itunes/SBS to Ubuntu gradually over the past 2 years.
Disk mirroring using software raid 1 disks (MDadm), plus rsync to mirror to Windows disk Ripping - Rubyripper for most accurate ripping & transcoding to flac & mp3. This also does replaygain calculation. Tagging - Musicbrainz picasa which also downloads cover art where it's available in Musicbrainz. Otherwise I simply google for the image & save as folder.jpg. I've decided not to embed cover art in tags. Cover art downloader is great but not available on Linux. There is also a cover art plugin in SBS. Occasionally use EasyTag for manual editing of tags (also heard good reports of kid3-qt but have not tried it) I rate all my tracks (0-5*) using Erland Isaakson's Trackstat SBS plugins. Consequently I have a script (python) to add new tracks to the library and remove duplicate tracks, transferring ratings if I replace a track with a better version. Local music - Not used much but I mostly use Amarok for music management as it seems to give best access for search,edit etc I haven't found a good app which allows me to sync music and ratings to an android phone. Interested to hear others' thoughts... -- simonl ------------------------------------------------------------------------ simonl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=42526 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88912 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
