Hi,
I just downloaded the reference version of dbPowerAmp R12.4 to test it's appropriateness and viability for helping manage my music collection. First off, I'd like to state that I'm extremely pleased with it's capabilities and speed (253x real time for wav -> alac). I've already used EAC to rip ~400 CDs to WAV files and I've used MediaMonkey to manage the library and tags and I've used squeeze center to verify the tags are accurate and readable by other applications. The task I want to do is batch convert the library to FLAC, ALAC and mp3 for various uses. However, I've run into a couple of issues while testing out the conversion to ALAC:
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1. Files names with unicode characters get munged:
For instance:
C:\music\wav\Händel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)\Händel - Water Music, The Musick for the Royal Fireworks, The Alchymist (CD 1 of 2)
Gets written as:
C:\music\test\Händel - Water Music, The Musick for the Royal Fireworks, The Alchymist (CD 1 of 2)\01 Water Music - Horn Suite in F major - I. Overture- Largo -- Allegro
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2. Unicode in tags gets munged:
For instance, the artist tag:
Händel, Georg Frideric; The Academy of Ancient Music; Hogwood, Christopher
appears like (in ITunes):
Händel, Georg Frideric; The Academy of Ancient Music; Hogwood, Christopher
Note, I've gone to advanced options and set all ANSI codec defaults to unicode.
Note: I'm sure media monkey is storing the unicode properly since I can scan the music library into squeeze center and all the characters are appropriate.
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3. The album artist, conductor and composer tags are not being found.
Here are the audio details for an example file:
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Audio Details for: C:\music\wav\Händel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)\Händel - Water Music, The Musick for the Royal Fireworks, The Alchymist (CD 1 of 2)\01 Water Music - Horn Suite in F major - I. Overture- Largo -- Allegro.wav
Length: 3 minutes 16 seconds
Channels: 2 (stereo)
Sample Rate: 44.1 KHz
Sample Size: 16 bit
Bit Rate: 1,411 kbps (CD)
Audio Properties:
Audio Quality: CD (Lossless)
Encoder Settings: PCM
Wave Header: Wave Format PCM
Channel Mapping: Left, Right
Sample Count: 8,657,124
Riff Chunks: 'fmt ' 16 bytes, 'data' 33.02 MB, 'LIST' 432 bytes
ID Tag: LIST
Contains: ID Tag[LIST]
Gapless: Yes
ID Tags:
Title: Water Music - Horn Suite in F major - I. Overture- Largo -- Allegro
Artist: Händel, Georg Frideric; The Academy of Ancient Music; Hogwood, Christopher
Album: Händel - Water Music, The Musick for the Royal Fireworks, The Alchymist (CD 1 of 2)
Genre: Classical
Technician: Hogwood, Christopher
Track: 1
Year: 1997
_riff_1: DATA Length: 4 fmt
_riff_2: DATA Length: 4 data
It looks like the conductor field that MediaMonkey is saving is the "Technician" field found by audio info. The album artist and conductor fields are not being found at all, although when I look at the end of the .wav file I see that the data is in the file.
Here is a bit of the end of the wave file:
Àÿºÿþÿ¸ÿùÿºÿùÿ»ÿüÿÂÿÊÿËÿÇ ÿÅÿÆÿýÿÀÿôÿÃÿîÿÃÿñÿÆÿõÿÂÿ òÿºÿñÿ¿ÿëÿ¾ÿîÿÄÿñÿÃÿóÿÈÿî ÿÄÿðÿ½ÿèÿÆÿäÿ¿ÿßÿÃÿßÿÂÿÞÿ ÃÿäÿÑÿà ÿÔÿãÿÑÿâÿÕÿßÿÚÿÞÿÛ ÿÖÿ×ÿÃÿÚÿÃÿÚÿÌÿØÿÉÿÕÿÈÿÔÿ ÅÿÙÿÇÿÚÿÆÿÛÿÄÿáÿ¾ÿÃÿ¹ÿÙÿ´ ÿ×ÿ°ÿÙÿ´ÿÜÿLIST°INFOINAMDWater Music - Horn Suite in F major - I. Overture- Largo -- AllegroIARTLHändel, Georg Frideric; The Academy of Ancient Music; Hogwood, ChristopherIPRDUHändel - Water Music, The Musick for the Royal Fireworks, The Alchymist (CD 1 of 2)IGNR
ClassicalIMUS$Händel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)ITCHHogwood, ChristopherIAAR$Händel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)itrk1ICRD1997IRVA-100
The 2 duplicate sections:
Händel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)
are the album artist and composer tags.
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4. All the CD art files are being ignored. All CDs in my collection have a file called folder.jpg file in them. This file isn't being copied over even though I've checked the box for "Export Folder.jpg" under DSP Effects/Actions.
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5. When I look at the conversion information, I get a lot of messages like:
Information converting to [Audio Info], 'C:\music\wav\Händel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)\Händel - Water Music, The Musick for the Royal Fireworks, The Alchymist (CD 1 of 2)\01 Water Music - Horn Suite in F major - I. Overture- Largo -- Allegro.wav' to 'C:\music\wav\Händel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)\Händel - Water Music, The Musick for the Royal Fireworks, The Alchymist (CD 1 of 2)\01 Water Music - Horn Suite in F major - I. Overture- Largo -- Allegro.IGNORE'
Unknown LIST sub chunk 'IMUS' Dropping it. [clRIFFLISTChunk::InitFrom]
Unknown LIST sub chunk 'IAAR' Dropping it. [clRIFFLISTChunk::InitFrom]
Unknown LIST sub chunk 'IRVA' Dropping it. [clRIFFLISTChunk::InitFrom]
Should this be worrying me?
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6. It would be extremely convenient if there was an option to automatically copy all non-audio files into the new location. Files such as art, playlists, log files and cue sheets would be very nice to automatically be copied.
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PS My system is Windows XP 64 SP 2 with a quad core processor and 8GB of memory.
I just downloaded the reference version of dbPowerAmp R12.4 to test it's appropriateness and viability for helping manage my music collection. First off, I'd like to state that I'm extremely pleased with it's capabilities and speed (253x real time for wav -> alac). I've already used EAC to rip ~400 CDs to WAV files and I've used MediaMonkey to manage the library and tags and I've used squeeze center to verify the tags are accurate and readable by other applications. The task I want to do is batch convert the library to FLAC, ALAC and mp3 for various uses. However, I've run into a couple of issues while testing out the conversion to ALAC:
*******************************
1. Files names with unicode characters get munged:
For instance:
C:\music\wav\Händel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)\Händel - Water Music, The Musick for the Royal Fireworks, The Alchymist (CD 1 of 2)
Gets written as:
C:\music\test\Händel - Water Music, The Musick for the Royal Fireworks, The Alchymist (CD 1 of 2)\01 Water Music - Horn Suite in F major - I. Overture- Largo -- Allegro
*********************************
2. Unicode in tags gets munged:
For instance, the artist tag:
Händel, Georg Frideric; The Academy of Ancient Music; Hogwood, Christopher
appears like (in ITunes):
Händel, Georg Frideric; The Academy of Ancient Music; Hogwood, Christopher
Note, I've gone to advanced options and set all ANSI codec defaults to unicode.
Note: I'm sure media monkey is storing the unicode properly since I can scan the music library into squeeze center and all the characters are appropriate.
*********************************
3. The album artist, conductor and composer tags are not being found.
Here are the audio details for an example file:
========================================
Audio Details for: C:\music\wav\Händel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)\Händel - Water Music, The Musick for the Royal Fireworks, The Alchymist (CD 1 of 2)\01 Water Music - Horn Suite in F major - I. Overture- Largo -- Allegro.wav
Length: 3 minutes 16 seconds
Channels: 2 (stereo)
Sample Rate: 44.1 KHz
Sample Size: 16 bit
Bit Rate: 1,411 kbps (CD)
Audio Properties:
Audio Quality: CD (Lossless)
Encoder Settings: PCM
Wave Header: Wave Format PCM
Channel Mapping: Left, Right
Sample Count: 8,657,124
Riff Chunks: 'fmt ' 16 bytes, 'data' 33.02 MB, 'LIST' 432 bytes
ID Tag: LIST
Contains: ID Tag[LIST]
Gapless: Yes
ID Tags:
Title: Water Music - Horn Suite in F major - I. Overture- Largo -- Allegro
Artist: Händel, Georg Frideric; The Academy of Ancient Music; Hogwood, Christopher
Album: Händel - Water Music, The Musick for the Royal Fireworks, The Alchymist (CD 1 of 2)
Genre: Classical
Technician: Hogwood, Christopher
Track: 1
Year: 1997
_riff_1: DATA Length: 4 fmt
_riff_2: DATA Length: 4 data
It looks like the conductor field that MediaMonkey is saving is the "Technician" field found by audio info. The album artist and conductor fields are not being found at all, although when I look at the end of the .wav file I see that the data is in the file.
Here is a bit of the end of the wave file:
Àÿºÿþÿ¸ÿùÿºÿùÿ»ÿüÿÂÿÊÿËÿÇ ÿÅÿÆÿýÿÀÿôÿÃÿîÿÃÿñÿÆÿõÿÂÿ òÿºÿñÿ¿ÿëÿ¾ÿîÿÄÿñÿÃÿóÿÈÿî ÿÄÿðÿ½ÿèÿÆÿäÿ¿ÿßÿÃÿßÿÂÿÞÿ ÃÿäÿÑÿà ÿÔÿãÿÑÿâÿÕÿßÿÚÿÞÿÛ ÿÖÿ×ÿÃÿÚÿÃÿÚÿÌÿØÿÉÿÕÿÈÿÔÿ ÅÿÙÿÇÿÚÿÆÿÛÿÄÿáÿ¾ÿÃÿ¹ÿÙÿ´ ÿ×ÿ°ÿÙÿ´ÿÜÿLIST°INFOINAMDWater Music - Horn Suite in F major - I. Overture- Largo -- AllegroIARTLHändel, Georg Frideric; The Academy of Ancient Music; Hogwood, ChristopherIPRDUHändel - Water Music, The Musick for the Royal Fireworks, The Alchymist (CD 1 of 2)IGNR
ClassicalIMUS$Händel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)ITCHHogwood, ChristopherIAAR$Händel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)itrk1ICRD1997IRVA-100
The 2 duplicate sections:
Händel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)
are the album artist and composer tags.
*********************************
4. All the CD art files are being ignored. All CDs in my collection have a file called folder.jpg file in them. This file isn't being copied over even though I've checked the box for "Export Folder.jpg" under DSP Effects/Actions.
*********************************
5. When I look at the conversion information, I get a lot of messages like:
Information converting to [Audio Info], 'C:\music\wav\Händel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)\Händel - Water Music, The Musick for the Royal Fireworks, The Alchymist (CD 1 of 2)\01 Water Music - Horn Suite in F major - I. Overture- Largo -- Allegro.wav' to 'C:\music\wav\Händel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)\Händel - Water Music, The Musick for the Royal Fireworks, The Alchymist (CD 1 of 2)\01 Water Music - Horn Suite in F major - I. Overture- Largo -- Allegro.IGNORE'
Unknown LIST sub chunk 'IMUS' Dropping it. [clRIFFLISTChunk::InitFrom]
Unknown LIST sub chunk 'IAAR' Dropping it. [clRIFFLISTChunk::InitFrom]
Unknown LIST sub chunk 'IRVA' Dropping it. [clRIFFLISTChunk::InitFrom]
Should this be worrying me?
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6. It would be extremely convenient if there was an option to automatically copy all non-audio files into the new location. Files such as art, playlists, log files and cue sheets would be very nice to automatically be copied.
*********************************
PS My system is Windows XP 64 SP 2 with a quad core processor and 8GB of memory.
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