In anticipation of receiving my Transporter, NAS & Squeezeboxes this coming Friday, I thought I'd start working on ripping & encoding (to flac) my small collection of CDs. Unfortunately what I thought would be a relatively painless process is turning out to be anything but. I'm hoping its just my inexperience and someone more knowledgeable will be able to say, "Silly newbie, its easy... just do X".
So here goes an explanation of what I'm trying to do (I really don't think its that involved)... I don't use iTunes and have no desire to (although a step in the tutorial below shows I must, so I do). I am starting from scratch with CDs. Any older mp3s I've got (purchased from MusicMatch) I'm going to upgrade to flac by buying the original music CDs. Right now I've got about 30 or 40 CDs worth of music tracks that I'd like to encode as FLAC files. I'd like to keep them in this directory structure on my HDDs: Music/flac/artist/album-year/artist-track#-title.flac Having done a bit of checking around after realizing that the EAC utility everyone raves about doesn't work on a MAC, I discovered 'xACT' (http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/21952). I also read the tutorial '\"FLAC Encoding Guide For MAC\"' (http://puddletowndesign.com/FLAC/macRipping.html) and successfully ripped and encoded a CD. Trouble is, I have to manually change the filenames to fit my convention shown above (artist-track#-title.flac). I did a little more checking around only to discover the utility everyone raves about for tagging & renaming, '\"Tag&Rename\"' (http://www.softpointer.com/tr.htm) also doesn't work on a mac :(. Fortunately there is something called '\"Tag\"' (http://sbooth.org/Tag/) available for MAC users that is similar to "Tag&Rename". Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be working. When I fire "Tag" up and point it to my subdirectory with newly ripped flac files, it can't seem to find the metadata necessary to rename the files. At this point, after 2 straight late nights of googling for a simple step by step procedure to convert my CDs into flac files with a seemingly simple naming convention, I'm about to pull my hair out. If I have to download one more utility in this stovepipe conversion process, I'm going to go nuts! I've got to believe I'm not the first Mac user to try this, but I really haven't found too much on the slimserver forums with regard to my particular process. If there are others (hello... there are others aren't there?), I'd really appreciate some advice or pointers. -- Ken P.S. Any suggestions for filenaming conventions that play well with the Transporters display would be greatly appreciated also. Thanks! -- Ken Rahaim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ken Rahaim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9526 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31532 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
