RE: [slim] Maintaining a large library of WAV files - artwork, tagging, issues

[Patrick Dixon]

I too would recommend using FLAC and EAC. FLAC generally gives about a 2:1 compression and since it's completely lossless it means you're not compromising audio quality. Plus it supports tags which are reasonably comprehensive.  600 albums on FLAC will rip to something in the region of 200-250GB, and since you don't want a hard disk failure to put you back at square one, you'll probably want to run some kind of RAID scheme with two or more disks.  Even if you backed up onto DVD, you'd be looking at loading something in excess of 40 DVDs to restore your music files. I generally use an "artist/album/track#-artist-song" file structure, which works well with Slimserver and handles various artists disks pretty well. Classical stuff is always more problematic, since however you tag it, most of the software is geared towards pop/rock type music searches. For example, with Silmserver you can search on 'artist' - but you'll have to decide whether 'artist' means the composer or the performer. I'd use artist for the composer, and then include the performer in the album title so something like: "Mozart/Requiem - Vienna State Opera Concert Choir/01-Mozart-Requiem in D minor" would probably work well. Then at least you can search on 'Mozart' rather than "Vienna State Opera Concert Choir" (which seems more sensible to me).  However, a lot depends on how (and if) the disks are tagged in the existing databases, and how much time you are prepared to spend re-tagging them! HTH, Patrick -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Natan & Nicki Tiefenbrun Sent: 29 March 2005 12:59 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] Maintaining a large library of WAV files - artwork, tagging,issues 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 Natan

_______________________________________________
Discuss mailing list
Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com
http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss