andreas.kagedal;273877 Wrote: > > For use in your portable mp3 player, you transform the tags to > something like the MusicBrainz tagging rules for Classical music > (http://musicbrainz.org/doc/ClassicalStyleGuide). At the same time you > perhaps transcode the music to mp3. For use by Slimserver you use > another transfomration, etc. possibilities are endless. > > Obviously, you need some tool for doing this. I don't know that > somehting like this exists, but is still a possibility. It is on my > list of things I want to do, but progress is slow :-(. > > /Andreas
I thought I might need something like you describe but I got by without much work and no exotic transformations. Here's my experience. I recently bought an 80 GB iPod for use on a long car trip. I wanted to load a sizable fraction of my music library into the iPod in MP3 format. I selected one or two performances of each work. For multi-track works such as symphonies and concerti, I combined all the tracks into a single file. I created a new library separate from my regular Flac library so that I could tinker with the tags to fit the iPod's environment. (I thought that the small screen width might require abbreviated wording of tags and the small number of lines might require keeping the size of any list short. Both limitations proved less of a concern than I thought.) Converting files to MP3 and transferring them to the iPod takes time but I select a bunch of files, start the operation and do something else. Revising the Track name tag for a file made from several individual movement files took an hour or so for all those files. (all the multi-movement works I care to hear in the car.) Since the iPod supported browsing using the Composer tag, I didn't need to change the Album or Artist tags . It all went along quite quickly and easily. I used J.River Media Center 12 (MC 12) to convert Flac files to MP3 versions with the same tags. (Mp3tag would have worked and so would Media Monkey and probably lots of other choices.) I used Foobar2000 to combine several Flac files into a single MP3 file. I used MC 12 to make the tag changes and to sync with the iPod. There are alternatives for those steps too. My approach was a mostly static one. It worked for a large portable player that I wanted to load all at once. It would not work for periodically changing the contents of a smaller capacity player. It would not work as well for regularly moving freshly acquired music to a portable player. Bill -- Listener ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Listener's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2508 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43851 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
