Many thanks to castala, garym and reinholdk (for the broken-down answers). Apologies for my absence.
Firstly, castala youre right. My excuse, I was trying to get everything there (and off my chest) instead of going back over it later, but on re-reading far too much! Im sorry you gave up though, there are some other solid questions there. I dont really want to make try and see changes, experimenting with zero knowledge, I dont know where I am now. Isnt the last thing I should be doing is meddling? As regards File organization and tagging, I mainly use the screens on the SBs (my music players) to view the music listings. Logitech Media Server is my other method but thats only been while Im trying to find my way around. I dont use anything else and so far I have used only VortexBox for ripping. Other than unknown artists & albums and Various Artists, Im happy with the way VB & the SBs are organising my albums, I can get to what I want quite easily. I dont want to make unnecessary changes and had no intention of turning this into some sort of Rain Man exercise! And all I want to do is replicate at least what youd have with a shelf-full of CDs and cassettes. But I think Im going to have problems with Various Artists. I used Hits of the 60s as an example but I have far too many like this plus samplers, newspaper freebies, even personal birthday CDs. As I said, random-non-album music, quite a few pre-album singles and a few recordings that never made it to a pressing. I think these should be available to be viewed in alphabetical order by artist, then song title (also ideally by song title, then artist/s). Working on an alphabetical list would also make it easy for me to identify the many duplications and delete them. I dont think I can go the album route, for example, Ive got 2 or 3 compilations that differ from each other by only 1 or 2 tracks. This, duplications and how to identify and delete them issue is a big worry. I had thought its going to be quicker to let the VB rip everything then delete the duplications afterward. Do you think this is so? In spite of pre-checking, the VB ripped 3 CDs as Unknown Artist & Albums, 1 needs deleting, 2 need renaming etc. and I know the albums! OK I think, Ill alter the VB flac files. Before getting in too deep I do a test (see the bold As in the title? - UnknownA_Artist_-_Unknown_AAlbum) but these dont show up on the SB screen. So, if its not here that I manage alterations and deletions, where? Ok, so Ive bought the VB and for straightforward ripping maybe thats OK but for anything iffy (say 25% of my stuff) and my classical, notwithstanding what you all said about mp3tag, should I use the highly rated dBpoweramp to rip this 30% (and then transfer to the VortexBox)? garym, thanks for the beginners guide links etc. and the explanation about syncing, brilliant but it might help you guys understand just how difficult even a simple sentence is for me, the most modern bit of technology we had before this was a CD/cassette player! Thats why my posts are so wordy, its all new to me. Anyway, thanks, I will read them. Your point 3. As I said, Ive only been using the Win 7 laptop to see LMS (trying to find my way around). I dont know if VB runs LMS, I doubt it. The VBA was purchased in the UK and I think it only has VB and a Wake up on LAN app on it. As instructed, I registered an account at SqueezeBox.com then downloaded LMS to the laptop. Whilst in LMS context I will cover some of reinholdks queries here too. I did check the VB files for cover-art (only 38% success but thats a VB problem I think Im going to use Bliss) but now, following a LMS rescan, the covers are now viewable! Id like to understand these configure LMS/Control Panel/Library tab and re-mapping issues better but at least the cover-art query is solved, errors and omissions included. The VB GUI 'System Configuration' shows Logitech Media Server Active but see above about where it is. I can confirm that the SBs are listed in LMS Settings/Player Information, together with Players 1 and 2 (do I just ignore these?). For convenience, I switch on an SB to wake up the VB. About modifying file names, as you can see above, I need to modify Unknown Artist etc.(let alone deal with the duplications). Like fool I used a bit of jargon, Tag, which showed I dont know what it really is. You say, modify some of the tags that are stored inside the file uhh? What files? I have tried sorting some of this out myself and you can see where I got to. I dont know what Im doing, isnt there any point-and-shoot software that does all this? You make the comment, Tag editors like mp3tag (and Bliss?) know how to access these tags inside a file... You can see what Ill need to do. Is that my point-and-shoot software? As for everything being set up correctly, I think that is the big question, adding to the high number of unknowns. No permanent IP addresses yet set, the whole network not showing up as mapped and relatively poor listing/cover-art results from the VBA. I guess Ill get there in the end. Thanks for telling me I can forget about Samba - I cant even foxtrot! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dtw3's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=59997 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98814
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