gdg Wrote: > as I understand it EAC encodes the artist/title info in the filename I'm guessing that this information is contained in a combination of the directory structure plus the filename. What is the pattern used for each?
You've apparently answered the original questions yourself. > 1) Is there any way to convert the WAV files to FLAC or AIFF > and have the file information used for tagging? > > 2) Which would be the best format to convert to. (AIFF is > supported by Slimserver and Itunes but I'm not sure it's truly > lossless) You've decided to use Apple Lossless (ALAC or whatever they call it). And you've decided to use iTunes to convert from WAV to ALAC. If iTunes can't extract the information from the filename and/or directory name, then you're left with one of two choices: 1. After encoding in iTunes, assuming that the filename is unchanged, use a tagging program to extract the info from the filenames and properly tag the files. A good tag editor like Mp3tag or 'Tag and Rename' should be able to do this if they can work with Apple Lossless files. If Mp3tag can do it, you should be able to load up your entire library, enter the naming pattern, then hit a button and the whold library will be tagged. 2. Instead of iTunes you might be able to find a transcoding program that can extract this info and tag the files as it's creating them. dbPoweramp might be able to do this. I know it can do the conversion - whether it's powerful enough to be able to parse tagging data from the directory and filename, I don't know. http://www.dbpoweramp.com/codec-central-mp4.htm -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25333 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
