Re: Your Naming Scheme
Thank goodness for this forum! I am setting up my husband's digital music library, and have recently purchased this program as well as the gold version of MediaMonkey. I will be using dBpoweramp to rip CDs and MediaMonkey to organize them along with the 700 CDs that have already been ripped over the years. We will be using the Squeezebox duet to stream all this music through our stereo reciever.
So, working within that system, I'm trying to come up with an appropriate naming scheme before I rip about 300 CDs.
I have a question about the naming options in dBpoweramp. At the bottom left of the screen, you can click on "Set" next to the "Naming" menu. The default naming convention is there. I've read all sorts of tutorials and posts in the dBpoweramp forum about naming schemes. I only know enough now to begin to ask some questions.
I have two questions about naming in dBpoweramp:
1. Is it true that the naming scheme is separate from tagging? For example, if genre is not in the naming scheme, it can still be in the tags and therefore usable by the squeezebox duet?
2. I want regular CDs by a single artist to be named
Artist (folder) > Album (folder) > track number artist - song title
That way the file name would just be 01 Billy Idol - Rebel Yell.flac. If there are multiple disks, I would want them to just get put into a single folder. I don't want disk number in the naming scheme.
Or, is there some reason to have more than that information in the file name (in the context of using Squeezebox)?
3. I want compilation CDs (by various artists) to be named
Various Artists (folder) > Album (folder) > track number artist - song title
I would want to make sure that for compilation CDs the tracks have the correct individual artist associated with them.
I think what I'll have to do then is to set one profile for single-artist CDs and a second profile for various artist CDs. Is that right?
I would really appreciate any guidance and any naming code that I can use. Thank you very much!
Thank goodness for this forum! I am setting up my husband's digital music library, and have recently purchased this program as well as the gold version of MediaMonkey. I will be using dBpoweramp to rip CDs and MediaMonkey to organize them along with the 700 CDs that have already been ripped over the years. We will be using the Squeezebox duet to stream all this music through our stereo reciever.
So, working within that system, I'm trying to come up with an appropriate naming scheme before I rip about 300 CDs.
I have a question about the naming options in dBpoweramp. At the bottom left of the screen, you can click on "Set" next to the "Naming" menu. The default naming convention is there. I've read all sorts of tutorials and posts in the dBpoweramp forum about naming schemes. I only know enough now to begin to ask some questions.
I have two questions about naming in dBpoweramp:
1. Is it true that the naming scheme is separate from tagging? For example, if genre is not in the naming scheme, it can still be in the tags and therefore usable by the squeezebox duet?
2. I want regular CDs by a single artist to be named
Artist (folder) > Album (folder) > track number artist - song title
That way the file name would just be 01 Billy Idol - Rebel Yell.flac. If there are multiple disks, I would want them to just get put into a single folder. I don't want disk number in the naming scheme.
Or, is there some reason to have more than that information in the file name (in the context of using Squeezebox)?
3. I want compilation CDs (by various artists) to be named
Various Artists (folder) > Album (folder) > track number artist - song title
I would want to make sure that for compilation CDs the tracks have the correct individual artist associated with them.
I think what I'll have to do then is to set one profile for single-artist CDs and a second profile for various artist CDs. Is that right?
I would really appreciate any guidance and any naming code that I can use. Thank you very much!
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