Disclaimer: this is with using my commercial software...
With bliss, enable the cover art rule as discussed in the 'cover art
tutorial' (http://www.blisshq.com/support/tutorials/first-steps.html)
and set the co-located image file name to be 'folder'. Also, set the
-Embed cover art in music files-
After you edited the tags did you do a full clear and rescan? It can be
needed where artist 'structure' is changed.
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audiomuze wrote:
> You could also try bliss: http://www.blisshq.com/tour/cover-art.htmlThanks
> for mentioning bliss.
See also
http://www.blisshq.com/music-library-management-blog/2010/04/26/bulk-resizing-album-art/
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I haven't checked the code of SBS to see if it supports this, but it's
also possible to have embedded cover art actually be a URL rather than
the image itself. This way, you could have a URL pointing to your larger
art, but you'd also have to set up a HTTP server (probably) to serve up
the images.
Maybe SBS reads from its own database of tags which is updated when you
rescan/add to the library.
If you don't add to the library, and if SBS only uses the library as the
source of the ReplayGain values, maybe that won't work.
(Sorry: speculation).
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+1 emalvick and w3wilkes . WMP is a bugger.
Also note that "Folder.jpg" being system-hidden can make it more
difficult to replace. A bit old now and possibly a bit out of date but:
http://www.blisshq.com/music-library-management-blog/2012/02/01/removing-windows-folder-jpg-system/
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RonM wrote:
>
> A tagging utility that automatically populated higher level genre tags
> on the basis of selection of lower level tags would be supremely useful.
> For instance, if I was tagging a Howlin' Wolf record I could just
> select "Chicago Blues" as a bottom level tag, and the utility wo
I find it most helpful to consider the "album" tag really "release".
This helps with both classical and contemporary music, because it's the
release which tends to dictate most other associated metadata. For
example, differing track lists, differing cover art and so on.
Whether you consider the s
So when you say composer, and you say you're not talking classical, you
mean the originator(s) of the music, e.g. Lennon and McCartney?
In the case of Discogs, that would come from the track credits in the
"Written-By" value.
In the case of MusicBrainz, check the "Work" via "Recording" which is
andifor wrote:
> It's easiest, if I do this with the ripper. Only one tool/UI and up to
> know, Max (on macOS) was perfect :o)
The deeper you get into this hobby, the more often you experience "up to
now" moments!
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I would do (3). Storage (in my case) is cheap, and having a different
organisation mechanism (playlists) for compilations adds complexity.
Furthermore, and most importantly, a recording on a compilation is not
necessarily the same as a recording in a compilation which slightly
different track len
DSF most commonly uses ID3 tags. It might be getting confused between AA
and BAND because AA has been de facto stored in the BAND field in ID3v2
for quite some time.
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For me:
Apart from The Notorious BIG, where the "The" could conceivably be at
the end, all the rest are stage names and should be used canonically and
in their stated order.
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emalvick wrote:
> Afterall, I am still amazed at how many software and hardware still
> don't recognize Album Artist as a tag.
It was certainly a problem with old and unmaintained players, but what
new players don't support it?
I guess there are car stereos etc...
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It's explicitly stated in the ID3v2.3 spec that the total number of
discs can be communicated after the position of "this" medium, separated
by a "/":
>
> TPOS
> The 'Part of a set' frame is a numeric string that describes which part
> of a set the audio came from. This frame is used if the sour
Meta, Yate, Tagr...
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I think the other respondents were suggesting the track files should be
*grouped* in one folder per release/album, not that there should be a
compilations/ root folder (just to be clear).
A lot of people _do_ use a compilations/ folder for their own needs but
it shouldn't be necessary.
Also, ju
In most cases you could come up with a set of regexes to govern
whitespace, punctuation and abbreviations and change them to commonly
accepted forms (but note this gets gnarly).
More difficult are the subtler alterations. MusicBrainz and Discogs both
allow the recording of artist aliases, and th
I'm not sure what OS you use, but I find the most efficient way of doing
this is to use mp3fs. You point it at your flac files and it provides a
virtual file system which looks exactly the same but lists mp3s instead
of flacs.
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Also, did you tell SC to rescan after making the change?
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and consistent
than most other sources. More importantly for this problem, it has
better support for internationalisation than, for instance, CDDB.
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er,
and then use the drive letter-qualified path. E.g. map
"\\Ripserver\music\" to q: and then point the script at: q:\Berlioz
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> >
My guess would be: the first argument is sent to flac, which doesn't
support UNC, the second to lame, which does.
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some logs there too.
Are all the tags present? Does the music play to completion? Can you
seek through tracks (FF, RW) ok?
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can be used for
embedding album art) whereas it's unsupported in flac/vorbis comments
and I wonder whether, if this is being used for the album art, it is
confusing matters?
If I were you I'd retag with vorbis comments and use the implicit
cover.jpg in the album folder.
My, isn't it co
vagskal - I don't really have that many suggestions but I'm interested
in why you want to know this... is it just a 'geeky' personal record
collector type thing or is this for business or work?
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Looking at the source code, I can't see a direct mapping for the lyrics.
You may be able to do something by editing the source, if you can. But
really this is one for Robin Bowes I think.
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I use abcde. No fuss, just works. Handles multi artist CDs quite nicely.
Still the same old metadata nonsense you get with other tools though.
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Presumably you are getting the IDs using Picard?
Are you sure that Picard is matching all of your music? Maybe it is
failing to match against some.
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It may use lame but lame is just the encoder, i.e. the bit of software
that creates an MP3. It won't give you a UI or anything like that. You
would have to use it manually for each of your music files. This is the
'value' dbPowerAmp offers.
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post is ok by the rules of the forum.
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when doing it manually! With the rule based way you just change the rule
once, and it's done on your behalf...
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ic library management for large collections with this new approach.
Anything else is a bonus.
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pen beta
before releasing in a couple of weeks. If you want to get involved, let
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What about this page:
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/SlimServerSupportedTags ?
It lists the year one, as an example...
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t.com/2009/10/automatic-album-art-management-with.html).
And then you have to remember to apply all the rules you learnt/decided
above when you add new music.
But it's great apart from that, honest! :D
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up to five hundred albums. :)
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7;s a full squeeze center server
for instance). You could set it up in a VM on your Ubuntu server...
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add art to albums in iTunes that the art is
embedded. Try that. You could also try a manual music tagger like mp3tag
to look inside your music files to see if the art is embedded.
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I'm sorry, I don't know of such an option.
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Sometimes it's hard to know what else to say but... wow!
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a complete rescan while you're
at it.
WRT the artwork and artwork folder, in my reference (the title format
UI) there is no such title tag as '%folder' so that probably won't work.
The artwork folder is generally used when you want to separate art and
music, whereas here you ha
VortexBox is superb.
Before I used VortexBox I was using abcde - this is great if you are
comfortable with a command line program.
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n%22
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Frosty+the+Snowman
... and importantly whether this is more automatable.
I think such an approach would take a lot of validation.
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means losing existing data on the HDD.
If it is NTFS, you may want to try 'robocopy'
(http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9d467a69-57ff-4ae7-96ee-b18c4790cffd&displaylang=en).
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and also the image format (jpeg, png, bmp etc).
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for doing it semi-automatically, in batch:
http://projects.robinbowes.com/flac2mp3/trac . You could run this at
regular intervals.
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Which operating system? Windows, Mac or Linux?
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You can use Foobar, but I don't think it deletes the source files, you'd
have to do that yourself.
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.net/). I 'blogged about it'
(http://musiclibrarymanagement.blogspot.com/2010/05/easy-flac-to-mp3-mirroring-with-mp3fs.html).
But I thought the OP said he used Windows.
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Some nice overview guides here. I need to start bringing some of these
resources together on the Music Library Management blog.
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Congratulations on this release - audiomuze: I'm actually on Xubuntu
10.04 now so I'll give this a try.
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folder.jpg files afterwards.
It embeds the art by default too.
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Is this on the fly through Squeezebox Server or just in general, via
your hard disk/storage? If it's the latter, and you have Linux, a real
neat solution is 'mp3fs'
(http://www.blisshq.com/music-library-management-blog/2010/05/17/easy-flac-to-mp3-mirroring-with-mp3fs/).
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You could look at Discogs...
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s what I'd do to save myself the thought processes!
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the album art for
each folder.
Apologies if you're not using Windows.
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idden?
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the case for your old library.
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MrSinatra;587304 Wrote:
> i'm not sure what all the ramifications are on the itunes side though,
> b/c i can't even figure out how to make itunes (pure shit) rescan the
> newly tagged files."Get Info"?
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nk you can do it per album, and multi select...
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I do that [choose non-release art] for some classical recordings too
MrSinatra. A lot of the time the actual release art is pretty bland -
I'd prefer an image of the composer/conductor/performers.
Although I'm often surprised what I can find for pop music bootlegs.
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Could you not do X forwarding with SSH?
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Blatant plug, but bliss works for Mac 'and can do what you ask'
(http://www.blisshq.com/support/tutorials/first-steps.html). Let me
know how you get on.
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claimer: it's commercial software. First 100 albums are free.
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For an album with art below 500x500, finding higher res art and
saving/embedding it
If you change your rules and re-assess, changing stuff again will cost
further fixes.
This means the maximum amount of fixes that can be used in one full
scan of your collection is (number of albums *
Thanks Ron.
Art can also be updated automatically to higher res, if that's what you
want, as per
http://www.blisshq.com/music-library-management-blog/2011/09/09/hd-album-covers-automatic/
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