Phil Leigh;353613 Wrote: > 128kbps AAC format... > > Oh dear. Is there some reason why you want to reduce your music to such > a terrible format? > Perhaps you should use a decent ripper (EAC, dbPowerAmp etc) and a > decent format (FLAC, lossless ALAC etc).
Whilst we are going on a tangent here from the issue of SqueezeCenter somehow reading the uniform tags of my album and deducing they are in fact from three separate albums, I am quite interested in your post. I guess you have presumed I am mainly ripping my music for my Squeezebox ? Unfortunately I have been mainly ripping songs for my iPod, and found AAC (Nero codec) to be smaller and superior to MP3 (Lame codec) in a few tests. OGG didn't sound too different, maybe had the slight edge, but iPod did not natively support it so it wasn't a great choice. I do have many old MP3 tracks in the library too, but made a choice to rip into AAC for the iPod a few years ago. That all said, since discovering my SqueezeServer is having to convert all my AAC tunes into FLAC on the fly to play them anyway (which will kill my NAS box when I install SqueezeCenter there, I suspect) I now have setup EAC and MAREO to rip CDs into both AAC and FLAC format in the future. But none the less, given that most of my music is already in a well-tagged AAC format, and also given that EAC and dual-format encoding is veeeeeeery slow and I've got over 1000 CDs, I'm going to be running off the AAC library for quite sometime yet ! So my previous question still remains, is there anything I might try to closer analyse the tags of my files or the SqueezeCenter database to understand how it has interpreted a single album to be split as three albums (the distribution of tracks between them is also very random) ? I will equally see if this problem ever applies to any of my MP3 files - suspect I might be a bug on reading AAC tracks (which might explain why I've not seen too many complaints about it ?) -- phantomwhale ------------------------------------------------------------------------ phantomwhale's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18769 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49848 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
