brianz;365139 Wrote: > > ... > I am finding the documentation to be incredibly unclear and basically > non-existent. Today I downloaded and installed the Converter, which > seems to contain the Ripper and Converter and all that. I have also > downloaded and installed the Player. Finally, I downloaded and > installed the FLAC codec. > > ... > Brian
Don't dispare! Be brave! First of all which version of dbPowerAmp are you using? It is indeed different products but assuming that you want to play the FLAC result through SC and Duet you in fact only need the "Ripper". The binary is called "CDGrab.exe" mine is version 13.0.0.0. It will rip and convert on the fly. As long as you abstain from ripping to MP3s and/or using the "All Media Guide" or MusicBrainz you should not need to register or pay anything (FreeDB is excellent for me and, ehm, free!) but you might want to "thank" the authors by sending in some money anyway. But what you do need is the FLAC codec from Illustrate's page, I did not get anything else working. But you said you already got that. I am not interested and do not use the buildin player. Instead I rip/convert the files directly to the folder where SC can find them. In my case on a seperate media server running GNU-Linux (Ubuntu). The files will not appear immediately in SC library but you can browse to the location using the Music Library/Music Folder. To listen to the music I use the SB3 exclusively. (Who needs yet another not to fancy player on their pc, honestly) What is very nifty is the build in scanner function. So what I do when a new CD was delivered on the doormat is: yot them in the CD-ROM player, let dbPoweramp start up and read the freeDB entries and make the necessary changes and start ripping, put the booklet in the scanner and scan the cover. (In the mean time I take apart the jewel box to transfer everything to flexible plastic covers from www.cdsoftcover.com) Once I found out to ignore dbPowerAmp Batch Converter, dbPowerAmp Music Converter and all other stuff in the dbPowerAmp programs folder it all was very easy. -- th00ht SqueezeBox v3 SqueezeCenter7 Quad 303 + Two Quad Electrostats 'last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/th00ht) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ th00ht's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15656 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55746 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
