Boyleyj;216546 Wrote: 
> I have just started to use EAC to rip my CD's, I rip them to a folder
> and then add that folder to my itunes library, but this only adds the
> track titles, so I have been adding the artist, album title, genre, and
> track number by hand in itunes through the get info tag, then itunes
> automatically organises my files into artist and album folders
> 
> This has been fine while slimserver uses the itunes information, but
> when I ask slimserver or telecanto to look at my music folder directly
> it says I have 1000 + songs in 9 albums?
> 
> What am I doing wrong before I burn anymore albums!
> 
> Regards
> 
> John
You can safely rip away. They way I've done this (and I've reripped my
whole collection!) I firstly rip via EAC to WAVE (I like to have it all
stored as WAVE for future eventualities). I encode copies to FLAC using
bonkenc - you open whole directories with subfolders in one go and
bonkenc will handle the encoding w/o supervision. It's quite fast even
on my old dell latitude. Then I use mp3tag.exe (freeware and
unbelievably competent) and I open directories containing 1500 tunes or
more in one chunk and I go over them album for album to get the tags
allright. Within mp3tag I can look up info on the tracks from internet
databases, tag with albumart from for ex amazon.com etc. 
One thing thou is that you have to add fields (tags) in mp3tag as it
contains a limited number of tags and some specifically labelled for
FLAC (see
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?SlimServerSupportedTags) are not
there by default. After some studying and hard work I now have my
compilations tagged for disc number, number of discs in a compilation,
artist for every track within a compilation and all sorts of goodies.
The only thing I wait for is the next upgrade of SS which is said to
support embedded albumart


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