JohnB wrote: > Just one point that probably only affects classical music: the length of > the path+filename. > > Many years ago when I started ripping my CDs to flac I used EAC (which I > still use) and ripped them to an external HDD (in fact a WD MyBook). > After some time I began to get strange problems when I tried to play > certain tracks (they didn't play) and even odder problems when I tried > to backup the files to another HDD (some files didn't copy over, etc). > > After some head scratching I worked out that the problem was that > EAC+flac had written files where the length of the path+filename > exceeded the Windows XP limit of 260 characters!!! (This is the limit > for the full path, including the drive (e.g. "D:\") and including an > invisible <NUL> character at the end.) > > With some classical music it is surprisingly easy to approach and exceed > the path+filename limit, e.g. the default tracknames (from freedb) of > some Bach Cantatas, some opera tracks, etc, etc can be very long. All it > needs then is a few levels of sub-folder nesting, with longish folder > names, to push the total over the limit. The ripping software *should* > prevent this happening but whether it does is open to question.
Very valid point. I also ran into this some time ago and found and used a freeware "Filename Checker" program to fix the filenames so I could copy them from my testbed workstation to my low power music server using SyncBack. The filename is an identifier, not (necessarily) a descriptor; the tags are the descriptors. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wirrunna's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3225 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94014 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
