Nonreality;337600 Wrote: > One thing to remember about Mediamonkey is that you can it update tags > as you change them or keep it only for the library in mediamonkey. If > you do the last, SC or any other program will not see the changes. > Make sure you set it to change the tags as you do it. That has caught > me in the past. I would still recommend that you both learn to use > mp3tag, because as you get better at this you'll find it's faster and > more powerful at doing the things you want than mediamonkey. All 3 of > these programs have great things about them and you'll discover what > about each you'll use and appreciate the most. Glad you having fun. > Oh one more thing about dbpoweramp, you should probably do both track > and album gain. If this doesn't do both during the rip, mine doesn't, > you can do like I do and just run the batch converter and do the replay > gain after ripping a few albums. It seems that some people get it to > work during rips for both but I've not had any luck at it so I just do > 3-5 albums at a time after ripping. > > PS: You have to keep us updated and let us know what you are going to > call yourself after all the buying :)
Thanks - I was hoping that you would reply! I checked through MediaMonkey and couldn't find a setting about whether tags would be changed only in the MediaMonkey library or more generally. I tested things out by changing an artist tag in MediaMonkey and then navigating to the file using XP windows explorer; when I pointed at the track I saw the new artist information, so I'm hoping that means the tag changes that I'm making in MediaMonkey will be recognized outside MediaMonkey. It would be a bummer if they weren't! Thanks for the dBpoweramp feedback too. I will change the setting to be album as well as track - I saw that option. I remember now seeing a thread from you and others about that topic. I guess you're right about my forum name - I'll have to think about that! Any other thoughts out there about: Question 2: What I'd like to know is if the existing tags I have will work with the duet. (The tags are largely from ripping using iTunes.) In the properties window, almost all tracks show correct information for track title, artist, album, and album artist. Does that mean things will work like they are supposed to? Our duet is in the mail, and I'd like to be ready for it! Question 3: The 700 CDs are organized well into folders that can be viewed in the XP explorer window, or whatever you call it. It goes Artist folder > Album folder > files. The inconsistent part is how the files are named. Sometimes it's the iTunes way, 01 Rebel Yell.m4a, and sometimes it's other things, like Billy Idol - Rebel Yell.mp3. Does it matter to the duet if file names are in various formats? Is there any reason for me to agonize over that? I would love to not have to learn mp3tag for now. :-) Any other settings that would be good to use for the two programs (dbPoweramp and MediaMonkey) to play nice with squeezebox duet? Thank you! -- what_to_buy ------------------------------------------------------------------------ what_to_buy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19555 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51538 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
