Almost all of my albums have the first track and artist as "Unknown" and there's scant little I can do about it too. With several hundred of my CDs ripped as WAV files (and for all the reasons listed below) I have no intention of going through all that pain again because Logitech/SlimDevices, in their ultimate wisdom, choose to ignore a format widely in use, placing all the onus on users to choose something which will work with their software and not the other way round.
ALL of my CDs have been transferred to a separate hard-drive as uncompressed WAVs to ensure maximum compatibility amongst programs, systems, platforms and hardware I own and regularly use - I am a musician (would-be amateur producer/live sound engineer and part-time lecturer!) and use multiple portable music devices and DAWs, so WAV is the most suitable lossless format. I have neither the time, processing power, money - nor inclination, to be frank - to store multiple formats (or to convert existing ones together with the requisite double-checking that would be necessary) in order to workaround Logitech's Squeezebox server problems. There simply aren't enough hours in the day! The ONLY application which has a problem with WAVs as a format, is the Squeezebox server software. Not even Microsoft's ubiquitous Windows Media Player suffers too much - now there's a first, not to mention a damning indictment!!! The fact is that there could be a relatively simple workaround (for this known problem) ... but the issue and its resolution is manifestly ignored. Granted, media tags are not natively supported from withing the consumer WAV format ... but, when you transfer files to a hard-drive, with a whole load of tag information intact (generated from a multiplicity of viable sources, where necessary), re-edit them again and again, AND ensure that they are saved in a hierarchical Genre/Artist/Album folder format, you'd think that this application would be at least as smart as MS's Windows Media Player, which gets it right after a couple of manual <Update Album Info> or <Find Album Info> attempts. What REALLY narks me is that it appears you cannot MANUALLY inform this software where to stick a track/album/artist in that darned SQL database it keeps. Closed, proprietary software which insists you either do it our way ... or go away (and that's putting it politely!). What is this? The 1990s(!)? Either make the application just that little more 'clever'; or allow the user the ability to override the app's inherent limitations with some real intelligence!!! It ain't rocket science! Rant over! -- steveecrane ------------------------------------------------------------------------ steveecrane's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34192 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34880 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
