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I ripped my approx. 1600CD collection to WAVs using EAC, in which you can define file naming formats. The directory structure I used was \artist\album\filename. For filename, after some experimentation, I used “[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@genre”. EAC allows you to set up a various artist naming scheme, where it automatically applies the track artist name to each track. Make sure to doublecheck as it loads the disc info to make sure that the artists are identified, and make sure that the “use various artists” naming scheme checkbox is selected. EAC does secure ripping, so I have had good results. You can also run more than one instance of it per machine, so if you have 2 optical drives, you can rip from both simultaneously. I had 3 networked machines, so at times I was ripping 5 or 6 discs at a time.
Within slimserver, you can tell it what filenaming scheme you use, and it does pretty well at pulling out the appropriate info. I use JRiver’s Media Center to manage my files. My one problem is that Squeezebox is not, I think, UPNP compliant (although there is a plug-in to make it work sort of with UPnP services??). I would love to use my SB with my JRiver Media Center, because it is much more powerful and versatile than Slimserver, but no luck as of yet. Seems like Itunes doesn’t work with WAVs? I think that none of the software packages that integrate with squeezebox work with WAVs- I may be wrong- if so, please let me know.
My main concern when ripping was to get files that were good and were identifiable by whatever software I chose to use. Tags didn’t seem a viable option with WAVs, so I went with the filename as an identifier. With classical music that is occasionally a problem, as some discs came up with filenames that were too long- so in those cases, I edited the information before ripping. Some more obscure discs you will have to manually enter the info for.
Good luck, and keep in touch with questions and answers!
Peter
PS: EAC is available through http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Exact_Audio_Copy.htm or http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/ Some info from users at http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t7516.html and http://www.digital-inn.de/forumdisplay.php?f=14 There is a yahoo forum on EAC in yahoo groups
From: Natan &
Nicki Tiefenbrun [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi
I’m planning to rip some 600 CDs into uncompressed WAV format for use with Slimerver, Squeezebox, Telcanto, and a high-fidelity music system.
If I rip them manually in iTunes, then at least the Artist, Track, genre tagging info is stored in the itunes database – which I can point SlimServer to.
However, I’d like to outsource the ripping to CDLabs, ShrinkDigital or similar, and they can’t return an itunes library to me. My options appear to be getting the files returned with appropriate naming/directory-structure convention. Has anybody else tried this, and any tips on how best to deal with compilations, soundtracks, classical etc? For example, compilations usually have the CD Artist ‘various’, but individual tracks to have the correct artist info.
I played with MusicMatch, adding some tags (2.3 I think) to the WAV files, but this seemed to confuse Slimserver (I guess WAVs & Tag’s don’t mix)?
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
One other question – is SlimServer UPnP compliant, or will it be?
Tks
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