Beginner question on dynamic naming

[Johnnyb]

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Yeah. Thats what I thought. Must be a setting in DBPA ...

Gary - Can you add album artist sort to your various artists string? I would appreciate it. I think that will do it for me.

[garym]

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Simbun- I used your string without the year and I noticed that their isn''t a folder.jpg in each individual file like there was in the original string. Is this dependent on the CD being ripped?

that has nothing to do with the naming string. Folder.jpg wont be there unless you ripped a CD and it creates the artwork.

[Johnnyb]

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Simbun- I used your string without the year and I noticed that their isn''t a folder.jpg in each individual file like there was in the original string. Is this dependent on the CD being ripped?

[garym]

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Yeah. I'm going to see about a metadata editing program for Mac. Does the C2 capability of the drive matter? Mine says that it doesn't do it.

no, doesn't matter in dbpoweramp. Just don't tick "use C2" in the ripper settings. Most of my drives don't use C2. The beauty of dbpoweramp secure ripping and AccurateRip, is that this really doesn't matter.

p.s. Of course dbpoweramp has metadata editing capabilities, but it is not it's main strength. I use mp3tag (windows), but there is an mp3tag Mac version. I've heard about BLISS, MusicBrainz Picard for Mac.

[Johnnyb]

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Yeah. I'm going to see about a metadata editing program for Mac. Does the C2 capability of the drive matter? Mine says that it doesn't do it.

[garym]

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Thanks guys. Yeah, Simbun, I&*8217;m over 50, I need names in things! Close to finalizing my string. Slightly OT, when you download a hirez flac file, does it have metadata similar to a cd?

Heck, 50 you are practically a teenager. Also with regard to download files Hi-Rez or otherwise, they sometimes have metadata sometimes not, but most of the time the metadata is bad and I have to edit it before I put it into my system.

[Johnnyb]

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Thanks guys. Yeah, Simbun, I&*8217;m over 50, I need names in things! Close to finalizing my string. Slightly OT, when you download a hirez flac file, does it have metadata similar to a cd?

[garym]

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[MAXLENGTH]240,[IFCOMP]Various Artists\[album][IFMULTI]\Disc [disc][]\[track] - [title] - [artist][][IF!COMP][IFVALUE]album artist,[album artist],[artist][]\[album][IFMULTI]\Disc [disc][]\[track] - [title][][]

this will use "Various Artists" instead. Be sure on "compilations" you set the compilations tag value (tick the box in the ripper screen), for this to work. If you are a Mac, then change all the back slashes to forward slashes above.

[Johnnyb]

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You guys are correct. I'm confident now that I have all of the necessary tags filled. I'm just going to settle on a string and start ripping. I think I'm going to go with Gary's and change the compilation to various artists. If I can do that, think that should do it. I have to explore programs that can edit tags. Thanks again for helping me out. I've learned a lot this past week or so.

BTW, Simbun, what do I remove to take the year out of the title?

[garym]

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excellent point @simbun. Once you get bitperfect rips, tags, file name, folders, etc. can all be easily changed in bulk with a few mouse clicks. And most folks do find later on that there are things they weren't thinking about when they started. Heck, I've been tinkering with my tags for 15 years and might change things again!

[garym]

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Yeah. Tried it on a double disc and a compilation. Looks good, The box set string you gave me earlier, does that handle them any different than a double or triple disc?

The box set string I gave you is super simple. It only deals with MULTIDISK CDs, and doesn't put them in an ARTIST or ALBUM artist folder. It simply puts all those disks in a folder called "Box Sets" Keep in mind that I wouldn't do that for my own collection. If I have a box set for an artist, I want it to show up in that ARTIST folder in my files. My regular naming string deals with box sets as is (in terms of each disk gets put in a separate folder, either under the artist>album or under complilation > album.

[Johnnyb]

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Yeah. Tried it on a double disc and a compilation. Looks good, The box set string you gave me earlier, does that handle them any different than a double or triple disc?

[garym]

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Thanks Gary. I'm gonna give your string another try. I don't think I want the date before the album title. I have to rip a multidisciplinary set and see how it handles it.

It automatically handles multiple disks and compilation albums (and non-comps and single disks of course).

[Johnnyb]

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Thanks Gary. I'm gonna give your string another try. I don't think I want the date before the album title. I have to rip a multidisciplinary set and see how it handles it.

[garym]

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I could have used either of your strings, but I wanted to have the release date available. However, I may want to move it to the end of the title. Gary, how do you track different masterings of the same album?

I put something in the album tag field for anything other than the original CD. For example:

ALBUM: Revolver
ALBUM: Revolver (2009 Stereo)
ALBUM: Revolver (2009 Mono)

So my initial album files just have the simple album name. Anything after that, I put something in parentheses in the name of the album itself. Lots of different approaches here, and all that matters is that it fits the way you think about it.