totoro;164542 Wrote:
> I'm transcoding now using dbpoweramp: the only yuckiness of this is that
> my album art tags are lost in the process, so I'll have to redo them.
>
> My understanding of the way others do this is that they use EAC to burn
> new music, and something like dbpoweramp to do the transcoding, with
> something like foobar2000 to manage things subsequently.
>
> This will clearly work, but seems inelegant to me. Is there some other
> application that will combine the burning/tagging/tree management, a la
> itunes? Also, what is the best way to manage two parallel trees?
I use a similar approach as others have mentioned.
- Rip using EAC and encode to Flac, adding the basic tags. I create
the folders manually. For me it's quick and nearly foolproof and you
often end up dealing with characters that Windows doesn't permit in
folder names, so I prefer to deal with those as they happen.
- Immediately afterwards, I retag all the files in the album using
Mp3tag. Right-clicking the album folder in Windows Explorer and
using a context-menu selection to get into Mp3tag is quick. I add
things like ARTISTSORT and COMPILATION tags to all albums. Takes
maybe 30 seconds for the typical album, but compilations can be
time-consuming.
A tagger like Mp3tag is essential after you've ripped the folder for
tasks like correcting typos after you discover them.
- I mirror the Flac directory tree to mp3 using a VBS script that
I've written. Runs in the middle of the night and only transcodes
files that have been modified or are new. File and folder names are
identical in both trees (with the exception of the music file
extensions). The script also copies cover art, should it be needed.
Using this approach, I don't even maintain the second (or third, or
fourth, if I wanted) tree of files - it's completely automated.
You _can_ get EAC to create more than one type of audio file during the
ripping process by using an application such as MAREO. I find that
there are big disadvantages to doing that, though. First, the ripping
process is slowed down quite a bit when you encode to a lossy format.
The Flac encoding that I do during a rip takes just a couple seconds.
Second, since the tags passed by EAC are incomplete, then it would mean
retagging both versions of the album afterwards.
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