Any plans to add freedb support to SPA?

[kevinm]

I have recently started to experiment using Sveta with my wife’s Cali 128 player. My main interest in Sveta is for transferring music from CD to the MP3 player without having to write to disk. My wife is not interested in saving MP3s to the hard drive, all she wants to do it transfer her favorite CDs to her MP3 player so she can go out jogging.

The only drawback I have found so far with SPA is that it cannot recognize the CD title, Artist, track name etc from the CD. From what I understand the way round this is to use 'freedb'. In fact I have seen that 'freedb' works fine when I use the Audio Player, so my question is:

Is there any plan to add freedb suport to Sveta Portable Audio?

Also, is there any plan to enhance SPA to read the titles, etc from a home recorded CD (using CD text)?

thanks,

Kevin

[kevinm]

Sorry, I should have said that 'freedb' works in the dMC Audio CD input program.

I see that when I transfer the tracks to the player that the track names are shown (presumable lame gets this info somehow), but it would be good if SPA used freedb so that I can see the track names on the CD so I know which ones I would like to select and transfer,

Kevin

[Spoon]

From Audio CD Input, set Rip To >> Cali, it should write the tags to the file and show them correctly on the player.

Is this not happening?

[kevinm]

thanks for the quick reply,

I have now set 'Rip to >> Cali' in Audio CD Input, then I quit Audio CD input and ran up Sveta.

In the explorer I still only see the regular file names for the contents of the CD, i.e.

Track01
Track02
Track03, etc

For the files which I have in my player, yes I do see the Artist and Track Title.

So, although I can only see the files as 'Track01, Track02' for the CD listing, somehow the tool is able to extract the Artist & track Name ok, also when I check to see what is programmed into my Cali the Artist & track name shows up ok.

However, I was hoping the tool would display the Artist & track name in the CD listing before I copy it to the player.

I am not sure from your message as to whether you are saying Sveta should do this or not.

There certainly doesn't appear to be the columns for it, the explorer window listing the CD contents only has columns for 'Name, Size, Type'

Kevin

[Spoon]

Try this, Audio CD Input - select Rip To >> as the player, then click the 'Rip' button in CD Input, no need to use Sveta Explorer.

[kevinm]

Hi Spoon,

I tried Audio CD Input as you suggested and it works ok, but the reason why I prefer to use Sveta is that it is the simple interface. One problem with Audio CD input is that it doesn't show me what MP3 files are already on my player.


In Sveta, I like the big arrows for transferring files, computer <=> player, I also like the big delete & refresh buttons - a nice, simple interface.

As I mentioned before, I am trying to set my wife up with the simplest possible solution. If it is not simple she will bug me to do it for her all the time.

So I think the solution at the moment is to continue to use Sveta, but just look at the CD case to decide which tracks to transfer.

Perhaps in the future Sveta could be enhanced to support freedb, then it will be all I could ever wish for,

BTW refesh is a bit flakey, like if I delete files in my hard drive using Windows Explorer, Sveta gets out of sync and refresh doesn't fix it, only way to get back in sync is to quit the program and restart. Minor niggles really, otherwise a great program,

thanks,

Kevin