ceejay Wrote: > > Be careful doing WAV first with EAC and then producing FLAC separately: > the advantage ofgoing straight to FLAC is that EAC will look up the > metadata and populate your tag information for you, which won't happen > if you do it in separate steps - > you'll have to use something else for the lookup. > > Ceejay
Actually, you can make it work just fine in two separate steps, and there is good reason to do it that way. FLAC is a batch program. You can stack up a thousand wav files and start it up and go to bed and when you wake up in the morning, your wav will have been magically transformed to flacs. FLAC doesn't use freeDB or CDDB to get the tag info.. It comes from the .wav file name/directory structure and you can specify what flac does with it. The key is to set up your file naming/directory structure the right way, and to set FLAC to automatically populate the tag based on that structure. (If you really want to get nit-picky, FLAC doesn't fill the tags, a program called TAGS tht is bundled with flac does). In EAC, under the options menu, directories tab, enter your music directory like this: e:\music\wav where e:\music is your main music library directory (full of flacs that squeezebox plays). The wav subdirectory is there to park the wav files temporarily until you convert them to flacs (you don't want to mix the wavs into the main flac library because you'll hve to hunt for them to convert them to flac). In EAC in the file names tab, enter something like this: %B\%A\%Y - %C\%N - %T This will create subdirectories in the e:\music\wav directory. A song file will be found like this: e:\music\wav\genre\artist\year - disctitle\tracknum - songtitle Now you go to flac and open the "tag conf." menu and enter this in the custom filename scheme: G/A/Y - L/N - T In flac, use the verify option. I check the "delete source file after encoding" box, but then, I'm not a girly-man... After you rip a bunch of files to wav using EAC, start up flac and point it at all those .wavs in the wav directory. Set it so the output files go to the same place as the input files. Start encoding and go away for a while. When it is done, all the wavs will be replaced by flacs. The directory structure will be such that you simply move everything from the .wav directory up one level to the main flac library and you're ready to rip some more. The flac tags will be fully loaded with correct info and you'll be able to browse by year, artist, genre on your squeezebox. TD -- tyler_durden ------------------------------------------------------------------------ tyler_durden's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2701 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18552 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
