How can I convert Escient's Fireball Drive to my IPOD? More details in thread.....

[peterobermeyer]

I have a wonderful home stereo system made by Escient called the Fireball E2-300. This machine rips CD's to FLAC onto a 300 GIG hard drive that I have been systematically converting to MP3 Lame folder by folder, over 600 albums. Is there a way to merely convert the entire disk and also maintain the Artist, Album title, song titles, and proper order without doing this one album at a time? The Escient formats or stores the data with a folder of the Artis, then a sub-folder of the Album Name, then a sub-folder of the song titles that are formated as such: 01 - Song Title - Genre

Any advise you may offer is greatly appreciated.

[Spoon]

Re: How can I convert Escient's Fireball Drive to my IPOD? More details in thread.....

Use the program 'File selector'

[trusted-1]

Re: How can I convert Escient's Fireball Drive to my IPOD? More details in thread.....

I have a wonderful home stereo system made by Escient called the Fireball E2-300. This machine rips CD's to FLAC onto a 300 GIG hard drive that I have been systematically converting to MP3 Lame folder by folder, over 600 albums. Is there a way to merely convert the entire disk and also maintain the Artist, Album title, song titles, and proper order without doing this one album at a time? The Escient formats or stores the data with a folder of the Artis, then a sub-folder of the Album Name, then a sub-folder of the song titles that are formated as such: 01 - Song Title - Genre

Any advise you may offer is greatly appreciated.

I am having a similar problem and the answer does not seem to be so simple. The files I convert to the iPod (or whatever) do not have the ID3 tags present. So although they convert, the iPod places them in the database by the song number instead of the artist. So instead of [artist, album, track] Artists 01, 02, 03 etc. with only song titles below. It seems as though the ID3 tags are not being saved or translated. I believe it is a problem with the Escient but I need to know if there is a work around that anyone might have found.

Thanks, Trusted-1

[cirio]

Re: How can I convert Escient's Fireball Drive to my IPOD? More details in thread.....

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I am having a similar problem and the answer does not seem to be so simple. The files I convert to the iPod (or whatever) do not have the ID3 tags present. So although they convert, the iPod places them in the database by the song number instead of the artist. So instead of [artist, album, track] Artists 01, 02, 03 etc. with only song titles below. It seems as though the ID3 tags are not being saved or translated. I believe it is a problem with the Escient but I need to know if there is a work around that anyone might have found.

Thanks, Trusted-1

[trusted-1]

Re: How can I convert Escient's Fireball Drive to my IPOD? More details in thread.....

I am having a similar problem and the answer does not seem to be so simple. The files I convert to the iPod (or whatever) do not have the ID3 tags present. So although they convert, the iPod places them in the database by the song number instead of the artist. So instead of [artist, album, track] Artists 01, 02, 03 etc. with only song titles below. It seems as though the ID3 tags are not being saved or translated. I believe it is a problem with the Escient but I need to know if there is a work around that anyone might have found.

Thanks, Trusted-1

Update: The Escient flac files DO have ID3 V2.3 tags with cover art embedded although they do not have ID3 V1 tags. The rest of the problem remains however and they do not seem to import correctly and do not seem to the cover art that I think is supposed to appear on the iPod photo's screen. Any help would be appreciated!!

Thanks, Trusted-1

[LtData]

Re: How can I convert Escient's Fireball Drive to my IPOD? More details in thread.....

dMC doesn't support cover art being embedded in files.

[NoOne]

Re: How can I convert Escient's Fireball Drive to my IPOD? More details in thread...

As I mentioned in another thread, ID3 tags are not supported by the FLAC format. Only Vorbis (as used by the .ogg format) are to be used. The device you are talking about was probably not meant to have files pulled from it and therefore not following the FLAC standard completely.