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I'm trying to set up some automation for CD ripping, using the CD Ripper and converter. The requirement is to use the ripper to rip to uncompressed WAV format first, then use a DSP action to invoke a VB.net program to create MP3 versions of the track(s) and write the metadata away to a database.
I'm encountering a number of problems, which probably mean that I don't understand how the ripper is handling metadata. I'd be grateful for any pointers to the following:
1. After ripping, I can see only the following ID tags in the WAV file: track title, track artist, album title, genre, year, label, track number, source, encoded by and length. However, the ripper has much more metadata available after the AMG lookup, including things like UPC number, Disc number and album artist. Why aren't these included in the ID tags created for the ripped WAV file?
2. I have added a custom tag (via the ripper's options dialog). This then appears in the list of tags for the album/track, but again doesn't make it through to the metadata recorded within the WAV file. Why?
3. I am aware that I could pass the missing metadata items through to my prgram as addional parameters via the DSP command line (and have successfully done this for the custom tag mentioned in 2 above). However, I can't find a list of the element names for the other items such as UPC number. Does this exist anywhere?
Many thanks in advance for your help!
regards
Julian
I'm trying to set up some automation for CD ripping, using the CD Ripper and converter. The requirement is to use the ripper to rip to uncompressed WAV format first, then use a DSP action to invoke a VB.net program to create MP3 versions of the track(s) and write the metadata away to a database.
I'm encountering a number of problems, which probably mean that I don't understand how the ripper is handling metadata. I'd be grateful for any pointers to the following:
1. After ripping, I can see only the following ID tags in the WAV file: track title, track artist, album title, genre, year, label, track number, source, encoded by and length. However, the ripper has much more metadata available after the AMG lookup, including things like UPC number, Disc number and album artist. Why aren't these included in the ID tags created for the ripped WAV file?
2. I have added a custom tag (via the ripper's options dialog). This then appears in the list of tags for the album/track, but again doesn't make it through to the metadata recorded within the WAV file. Why?
3. I am aware that I could pass the missing metadata items through to my prgram as addional parameters via the DSP command line (and have successfully done this for the custom tag mentioned in 2 above). However, I can't find a list of the element names for the other items such as UPC number. Does this exist anywhere?
Many thanks in advance for your help!
regards
Julian
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