I've been ripping to .WAV images - 650+ discs so far - until I sorted out what I wanted to do about compression. (I want images for archival purposes - I have already found several discs that have gone bad.) Now the drive is getting full, so it's time for me to start converting to FLAC. Also I want to start getting the effect of replay-gain. I have some harp recordings that peak at 40% according to EAC, and random play likes to put them next to metal that was recorded with the dial turned up past eleven...
I want to script the conversion, so I guess Foobar is out. I've come up with the following arguments to FLAC: --delete-input-file --verify --best --replay-gain --cuesheet=<cue> <wav> Is there something else I should consider? Will the above get me the effect of album replay gain? (I'll be compressing one wav == one album per invocation of FLAC.) Right now the cue sheet points to the .WAV file. Will it be okay to embed it unedited in the .FLAC file? I assume I'll need to edit it to point to the .FLAC afterward. Is this correct or can I leave it alone and SlimServer will be smart enough to put it together with the .FLAC file? I've noticed that EAC generates cue sheets that start like: REM GENRE Jazz REM DATE 1968 REM DISCID 5F069308 REM COMMENT "ExactAudioCopy v0.95b3" CATALOG 0075990174727 PERFORMER "Vince Guaraldi" TITLE "Oh, Good Grief!" SlimServer doesn't get the genre if it isn't in quotes, but EAC (at least the version I'm using) doesn't put quotes around single words. SlimServer also doesn't pick up the REM DATE line. It does see a REM YEAR, if I also put the year in quotes. It would be nice if SlimServer got everything from a stock EAC cue sheet. But for now I have a script that goes through and updates them. Are there any other tags/REMs I can put into the cue file? I'd really like something like a "SORT" tag so my Alan Parson Project albums could go under 'P' without getting ugly and renaming him to "Parsons Project, The Alan". I'd also like to be able to see / play albums by an artist in chronological order. (Hmm. Just found a mention of the ARTISTSORT tag - must check it out.) Can SlimServer get all this info out of an embedded cue sheet, or am I better off using an external cue? (Though the replay-gain has to be a tag in the FLAC, right?) How can I be able to fast-forward / rewind within a track? It looked like it should work from the FAQ, but I can't with a CUE+WAVE image - only move back and forth at the track level. Is there a way to turn off the common albums feature. With FLAC images, I won't be scattering the files for an album across my hard disk (I promise! <grin>). And I seem to have a large number of albums with common titles. (Like "Celtic Christmas", and every flamenco artist seems to have a "Spanish Dreams" or "Gypsy Nights".) Thanks, -- Timothy -- TimothyB ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TimothyB's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4868 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23182 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
