On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Adrian Mageanu <[email protected]> wrote: > I had the same problem when ripping my CD collection as mp3. I had to go > afterwards and edit all tags by hand with Easytag. > > When I chose as target ogg format, all albums and artists were > recognised. Not the genre though, and I left it as unknown being too > lazy to cange that. > > Not sure why is this, I didn't dig further because I started to like ogg > more than mp3, ogg sounds better in full ear headphones.
The ripping software clearly varies in what tagging it does. I like abcde (A Better CD Encoder). Its command line, and once you have your defaults set up in a config file, such as format and bitrate you want etc, ripping is as easy as typing abcde and then interactively confirming that the metainfo downloaded from freedb.org is correct. This metainfo is used for tagging. It is very flexible and can rip to many formats, follow many naming conventions (including directory creation) and if you are ripping to mp3 it can split the encoding to other boxes on your lan using distmp3. Most importantly for this conversation it does the tagging! Still, Steve probably doesn't want to re-rip all his CD's to get them tagged correctly, so one of the automatic solutions proposed elsewhere in the thread will probably do the trick.
