Batch Ripper log file / parse .tmp file?

[JackElliott]

Hi, we're setting up dBpoweramp at our community radio station to start converting our CDs into a digital music library. dBpoweramp's Batch Ripper is doing a fine job, but we'd like to set up some kind of log file that lists Rip Date / Album Title / Genre (etc.) stuff to be used as a report.

CD Ripper has a log capability if Secure ripping is turned on, but it warns that it can stress CD drives and our cheesy old CD drives have a lot of miles on them already. I can't find any other way to create a log.

But we find that CD Batch Ripper creates a .tmp file for every CD ripped and it's chock-a-block with all the good stuff that we're looking for. The file is a text file with handy html-like fields like <album></album> so it wouldn't be a mighty job to parse the files and create human-readable output. But in the spirit of not re-inventing the wheel, I wonder if there already exists a parser for these files?

[Spoon]

Re: Batch Ripper log file / parse .tmp file?

Batch Ripper has a log file also, saved to the %appdata% dBpoweramp folder.

[JackElliott]

Re: Batch Ripper log file / parse .tmp file?

Batch Ripper has a log file also, saved to the %appdata% dBpoweramp folder.

Indeed it does -- thank you.

We also need to view what genre the CD was placed into because many CDs are miscategorized (in our opinion only!) -- like some easy-listening piano CDs miscategorized as "Classical", or compilations of one music type, like Bluegrass, being miscategorized as "Various Artists."

We are organizing the ripped CDs into a library organized under genre foldernames at the topmost level. DJs seeking Bluegrass should be able to find all Bluegrass music under the Bluegrass folder, not have to poke about inside the random collection of Dixieland, Rock, Celtic, New Age, and cocktail piano compilations in the "Various Artists" folder.

The volunteers who do the ripping are not necessarily experts at music, and Batch Ripper doesn't announce what genre / folder it is writing the data into, nor provide a way to correct on-the-fly where the files will be written to if the disc is Pop but the metadata says Rock.

So at the end of the day, a report that the volunteer can give to the music curator that shows album title & what genre the metadata claims the album to belong to would be valuable so the curator can correct the errors. Otherwise he or she has to poke about the music library's folder structure to see where the metadata caused things to have been tossed into.

So, a little more Googling and I found that the amg????.tmp files are from American Music Group (the metadata provider) and are XML format. We're looking at maybe using something like Powershell to parse out the album title, artist, Label, and Genre into a text report.