Thanks guys for your patience with me. I recognize you are the experts and I am learning, as evidenced by all my questions...
OK, so after I wrote my last post yesterday, practically giving up on my WAV to FLAC conversion, I started, or rather tried to copy all of my WAV files from my Promise NS4300N to the ReadyNAS PRO Pioneer. It was then that I realized that my PRO kept on going offline for no apparent reason and then I lost my volumes and data for the SECOND TIME! So after trying to troubleshoot that and calling ReadyNAS support, they told me that I was probably experiencing these problems because I was using Western Digital WD20EARS drives that are not certified to be used on the PRO. Long story, but those four WD20EARS drives are coming off my PRO today to be returned and I ordered four WD20EADS drives to replace them. Hopefully that will solve all the headaches I have had with the PRO in than a less week's ownership. UGH! Anyway, so I retried the WAV to FLAC dbpoweramp conversion again going to a NEW empty location on another more reliable NAS of mine. ONLY with Neil Diamond Albums selected (remember that) dbpoweramp did convert all of the same Neil Diamond 14 album folders with reservations. 1. So in my dbpoweramp settings, I pointed to the new empty location and clicked the Dynamic button with [origpath][origfilename][] settings along with RG ReplayGain added as a DSP Effects/Action (garym ..dont know why you recommended to do this? Can you please explain why?) 2. In the conversion, it created a new Neil Diamond folder and under it ALL of the FLAC files (i.e., Beautiful Noise01-Beautiful Noise[].flac, Beautiful Noise02-Stargazer[].flac , etc., Serenade01-Ive Been This Way Before[].flac, Serenade02-Rosemarys Wine[].flac, etc., and so on .), not organized with the all the tracks of one album within its own album folder (i.e., \Neil Diamond\Beautiful Noise\, \Neil Diamond\Serenade\, and so on). Is there a way to do set dbpoweramp so it creates album subfolders where each albums tracks are in different album folders like I have organized my WAV files? Why do I want [] at the end of each title? 3. audiomuze;565885 Wrote: > Some questions: - what tool did you use to embed tags in your WAV > files? - does mp3tag see the tags in the WAV files? I didnt previously > embed any tags for my WAV files so mp3tag does not see any tags for any of my WAV files. I reviewed your alternatives seems like this would be a significant project to create tags for my now 20,000+ WAV files. I would like to know if there is a batch automated tagging process or its probably not going to happen. It's the main reason why Im wondering why I would want to do the WAV to FLAC conversion. If one of the benefits of having FLAC files is enhanced tagging, and if it is going to be a labor intensive process for me to do it for all of my 20,000+ WAV files, then I see no need to convert to FLAC. I either make the plunge to FLAC or nottheres no in-between for me. As I said my primary consideration is to have lossless files, WAV or FLAC. Extra metadata just for the sake of having it, is suddenly not that important to me if it means I need to invest an inordinate amount of time adding it to my 20,000+ files manually. 4. funkstar;565726 Wrote: > how is the cover art stored at the moment? Does dbPoweramp know you want > to embed the artwork? It won't majically do this without being told > about it.OK, I dont know how to do that in dbpoweramp and Ive asked several times how. Ive looked at dbpoweramps Dynamic Naming Elements, and I dont see any album art Element. Perhaps you can tell me how to dynamically embed album art and Ill try it. My album art is currently in the WAV album folder for each artist as I described in previous posts. 5. Now this is the main kicker....I installed a fresh new 7.5.1 version of SBS but when I Clear the Library and Rescan Everything in SBS after pointing it to the new Neil Diamond folder dbpoweramp created, SBS shows there are 10 additional Unknown Albums by Unknown Artists. These Unknown Albums have just one Track 1 by unknown artist. Additionally, one of the Neil Diamond album in SBS shows all the tracks in that album along with additional unknown Track 1 and Track 2 with an Unknown Artist. How did that happen? Ummmm still confused and not convinced.....yet. Thanks, Ed -- edr ------------------------------------------------------------------------ edr's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=38851 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80461
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