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OK, I read as much of the FAQs as my eyes could stand, and I'm still missing a few answers:-
1) Is there some way to force the CD ripper to query a particular FreeDB entry by name or by artist. E.g. if I have put an old vinyl LP onto CD, and I want to rip it later, I know the tracklist will be on FreeDb somewhere, but I'll never find it by the normal hash code, because my home burned CDR will be different?
2) If I laboriously enter all the data for such a CD manually, is it cached on the PC somewhere in case I later want to rip same CD again (if so where?). Obviously, again, I can't submit the data to FreeDB since it's not a commercial CD.
3) It woild be really nice if 'music collection' (maybe I am now in the wrong forum) could handle the concept of possibly multiple paths to different copies of the media .. i.e. I probably have one encoded with something lossless, or maybe just as close as I can afford) and then I have another copy encoded already for whatever my MP3 player wants (Q-1 OGG Vorbis maybe). All the tag information about artist, track, preference, etc. is common .. if I change one, I want both changed.
WMP10 'sort of' keeps a (hidden) cached copy of converted (transcoded) files, and SVETA/Dmc will allow 'on the fly' conversion and download of selected tracks, but for 250 tracks or something the conversion takes an age .. you really need pre-converted cached results someplace.
TIA
1) Is there some way to force the CD ripper to query a particular FreeDB entry by name or by artist. E.g. if I have put an old vinyl LP onto CD, and I want to rip it later, I know the tracklist will be on FreeDb somewhere, but I'll never find it by the normal hash code, because my home burned CDR will be different?
2) If I laboriously enter all the data for such a CD manually, is it cached on the PC somewhere in case I later want to rip same CD again (if so where?). Obviously, again, I can't submit the data to FreeDB since it's not a commercial CD.
3) It woild be really nice if 'music collection' (maybe I am now in the wrong forum) could handle the concept of possibly multiple paths to different copies of the media .. i.e. I probably have one encoded with something lossless, or maybe just as close as I can afford) and then I have another copy encoded already for whatever my MP3 player wants (Q-1 OGG Vorbis maybe). All the tag information about artist, track, preference, etc. is common .. if I change one, I want both changed.
WMP10 'sort of' keeps a (hidden) cached copy of converted (transcoded) files, and SVETA/Dmc will allow 'on the fly' conversion and download of selected tracks, but for 250 tracks or something the conversion takes an age .. you really need pre-converted cached results someplace.
TIA
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