phantomwhale wrote:
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 !
Why don't you rip to FLAC alone and then use dbpoweramp converter to
batch convert everything to AAC as well. The converter is quite fast and
can run unattended.
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 use mp3tag to fix and figure out my tags. It's quite convenient. I
usually make sure the Album tag is set identically and that the files
are in the same directory (a hassle with multi-cd disks), I usually
renumber the tracks and change the filenames.
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 ?)
If that's it you'll also fix it by using FLACs ;)
Regards,
Peter
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