edr;565976 Wrote: > > 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?)
Replaygain (track and album level...make sure in your settings you select both to be added) are tag fields that are added with volume control info. You can choose to use these or not and this does not alter your audio itself. Track gain is useful when playing a mix of tracks from different albums. The volume will be adjusted so that they are close to one another (instead of one really loud song followed by a really soft song). Album gain applies the same gain to every song on the album when played back. So this is useful when playing entire albums. And SbS is nice because you can select SMARTGAIN, which will automatically use track gain when playing a mixture of tracks and album gain when playing an entire album. edr;565976 Wrote: > > 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? you don't want this!! something is wrong with what you've entered in the dynamic naming string. What this should do is create an exact mirror image directory of FLAC files to match your WAV file directory organization (with only difference being the top level being /FLAC instead of /WAV). the [] has to do with the string command, which is obviously wrong for some reason in what you've entered. So you need to play around with the dynamic naming string stuff in dbpa a bit more. Do a search within the dbpa forums on dynamic naming and read some of the discussions. You'll get the hang of it. http://forum.dbpoweramp.com/ I also suggest that you go through dbpa and really click on all the menus, options, etc. to figure out where things are and what options are there. It is not that intuitive in the beginning, but it quickly makes sense. One hard thing is that somethings have a drop down menu when you select the icon (a little arrow) and ALSO have a different set of options when you click on the icon itself. You need to do both. Plus look at the options within dbpa configuration program as well as the converter program and batch converter program. Bottom line, really explore all the nooks and cranny's of dbpa to figure out things. And experiment on files and settings so you can see what it's doing. edr;565976 Wrote: > 3. 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. I may be confused here, but just how did you expect to navigate around within SbS to choose artists, albums, songs, etc. without any metadata? Maybe you were going to limit yourself to just using browse music library and do this via your directory organization. This will work I suppose, but you then can't use many of the much more powerful ways to access your data. And I'm not sure the album art works this way (but i've never tried). And I assume you can't use any of erland's great plugins related to dynamic playlists, custom browse, etc. edr;565976 Wrote: > 4. 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. The art is not in the dynamic naming. There is another option somewhere in dbpa where you tell it to either embed the art in each file or to simply create a single album art file for each album subdirectory (or both). If you follow audiomuze's suggestion about just creating the FLAC files within the existing WAV directories, then deleting or moving the WAV files, you'll already have the single file there with album art. What are your album art files named? "folder.jpg" or "cover.jpg" or what? edr;565976 Wrote: > > 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 albums 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? I assume that's because there are no TAGS in the files for SbS to read. So it thinks everything is unknown. As audiomuze suggested, a program like mp3tag, can easily (in batch mode) create tag fields like ARTIST, ALBUM, TRACK Number, SONG TITLE, from the track file and directory names themselves if your file names have this info. There is a filename > tag function within mp3tag that can be easily set to read your file names and parse the correct data from them to include in tags. -- garym ------------------------------------------------------------------------ garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80461
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