jdt7385 wrote: > You are absolutely right. The problem was with artistsort, which on one > of the albums did show Harris, Emmylou. Until you advised me, I did not > know about the extended tags section. I was puzzled because the basic > information for all the albums did reflect "Emmylou Harris" as the album > artist and the artist. I changed the artistsort setting and now the > albums do indeed show up under the E index and not the H index. Many > thanks for the help.
You are most welcome. Glad we proven helpful. jdt7385 wrote: > That is a very appealing alternative to reripping the CDs. Do you think > I lose any "real world" quality in the conversion? If not I am already > headed toward conversion city (first I must learn how to do the > conversion...then batch conversion, etc.; however, the dBpoweramp > documentation seems to be good, as you mention). Many thanks for your > help. You and the others on this forum have provided some really helpful > information, for which I am very grateful. Thanks to all of you. garym wrote: > WAV are lossless. FLAC is lossless. You won't lose *any* quality (real > world or even theoretically). A conversion of lossless (wav) to > lossless (FLAC) will result in the same audio data. Your FLAC files > (after a batch conversion) will be EXACTLY the same data as the WAV > files they were created from. I think the only reason people are > hinting at reripping is that the WMA ripping process (or itunes) is not > a secure process (unlike, for example, dbpoweramp or EAC). Now it it > probably true that 95%+ of your WAV rips are perfect. The "secure > ripper" value only kicks in on tracks that have issues (and by the way, > this could be on first time played, new out of package CDs). In my > thousands of rips, I'd say less than 5% have any problems (i.e., would > have been perfect rips on about any old ripper). I completely agree. Now before you do anything else get your backup plan/system up and running, then go back to reripping, converting and retagging. And have fun! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95312 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
