Help me with the CD ripping naming string I need?

[todd1010]

I like to have my music setup like as follows:

FLAC MUSIC FOLDER (where the music is stored):
ARTIST FOLDER
ARTIST'S ALBUM NAME
Song file name: Artist-Song Title

I don't know if that's what you'd need to help me with this but I'm looking for a way to rip my music and not have to go back and go over the tags again. I'm not sure how I'd like to handle compilations or soundtracks, maybe put all of the Soundtracks in a particular "Soundtracks" folder and compilations put them in a folder as themselves.

Any ideas?

[dvdr]

Re: Help me with the CD ripping naming string I need?

Hi

Look at this post: http://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showpost...2&postcount=50

And here's a suggestion for your naming scheme. btw - you should add a track number in front, otherwise, you will get an alphabetical order in your windows folder (if you don't care, that's fine, too...)
So, you can try this and see, whether it fits your needs and point ripper to your flac music folder, so it will rip to a subdirectory structure there... (I hope, I did not make any programming mistakes... )


[MAXLENGTH]230,[IFEQUALS]genre,Soundtrack,[IFCOMP]Soundtracks\Compilations\[album][IFVALUE]album artist,\[album artist]\,[]\[IFMULTI]Disc [disc] - [][track] - [title] - [artist][][IF!COMP]Soundtracks\[album]\[IFVALUE]album artist,[album artist],[artist][]\[IFMULTI]Disc [disc] - [][track] - [title] - [album] - [artist][][][IF!EQUALS]genre,Soundtrack,[IFCOMP]Compilations\[album][IFVALUE]album artist,\[album artist]\,[]\[IFMULTI]Disc [disc] - [][track] - [artist] - [title][][IF!COMP][IFVALUE]album artist,[album artist],[artist][]\[album]\[IFMULTI]Disc[disc] - [][track] - [title] -[artist] - [album][][][]

What this basically does is
- check if it is a Soundtrack - then it will put it into a dedicated soundtrack folder
- if it's a soundtrack-compilation-album, it will put it into a compilations subfolder fo the soundtrack folder
- if it's not a soundtrack, then there will be folders with the artist's or, if present, album artist's name and a subfolder for each artist's/album artist's albums
- if it's not a soundtrack, but a compilation, you will get a compilation-folder, with subfolders for album, and there, a subfolder for album artist, if existent
- filenames are usually Track Number - Track Title - Track Artist - Album, for multi-disc-sets, it's Disc Number - Track Number - Track Title - Track Artist - Album. That way, you can identify songs also by just looking at their filename.
- it will delimit path length of the whole structure including filename to 230 characters, so you have 25 character free for whatever directory structure this whole thingy is sitting in. If it is for example just residing inside a folder called "Audio", then you can raise the number to 249 without running into the danger, that pathlengths exceed 255 characters and you are on a safe side for Windows and NAS-Boxes, afaik.

[Sugar Magnolia]

Re: Help me with the CD ripping naming string I need?

I think this is what you are after:
[extension]\[album artist]\[album]\[artist] - [title]

Something like this to handle compilations? Puts compilations in a "compilations folder" and multidisc in a "multidisc folder"

[IFCOMP][extension]\Compilations\[IFMULTI]Multidisc\[][IFVALUE]album artist,[album artist],Various Artists[]\[album]\[artist] - [title][][IF!COMP][extension]\[IFMULTI]Multidisc\[][album artist]\[album]\[artist] - [title][]