Several questions

[Ciscokid422]

1) is there some way to shut down power Amp after playing for a specific time? 2) where is the Playlist located and what is it's name. How to backup playlist?

[schmidj]

My friend, you are on the wrong forum. This forum is for dBpoweramp, a CD ripping program which runs on PCs and such, not Poweramp, a program which plays music files, most often on phones. (I use both). The people from Illustrate, who developed dBpoweramp have nothing to do with Poweramp.

Sorry, but you'll have to look for their website and see if they have a forum.

[Jonwilson456]

1. Poweramp doesn't have a built-in timer to auto-shut down, but you can use third-party sleep timer apps for that.
2. Playlists are usually stored in /Android/data/com.maxmpz.audioplayer/files/playlists as .m3u8 files—just back up that folder to save your playlists.

[sculen]

Just getting started with CD ripping in AIFF. Questions 1. For Bit depth, Sample rate, and Channels, do I just leave it alone where it displays [as source] for all three, OR do I need to drop down and select the ones for CDs? 2. Understand Artist, Album, Genre, & Date, BUT what is Album Artist for? Just leave it blank? Or same as Artist? Thanks

[schmidj]

If you are ripping CDs, the bit depth is 16 bits, the sample rate is 44,100 samples per second or 44.1 and the channels is 2 (stereo) That should be the default already saved.

You will be wise to spend the time to inspect and correct as necessary the metadata supplied by the various providers before you rip each CD. Most of the metadata was either crowd sourced or provided by the record companies, often with little or no quality control. It tends to be riddled with often stupid errors. Yes, you can fix it after ripping without re-ripping, but it is much simpler to get it correct before ripping. Metadata tents to be more error prone or missing entirely (forcing you to type it in manually) for less popular genres like much international music.

Album Artist, in many cases the same as the track artist, if all the tracks have the same artist. On "compilation" CDs, most people enter "various artists" or something similar, for the album artist, and check the "compilation" check box. necessary when ripping to have all the tracks for the compilation CD end up in the same folder and for them to show up together in some players. (You might want to test this before ripping very many CDs, you can fix it later, but it is a PITA). Another case where they might be different is where you have an album by a particular artist but one (or more) track is sung by a guest artist. You'd leave the album artist as the artist listed as the main artist on the CD, but the (track) artist would be the guest artist (or sometimes a duet or such with both.)

Date was intended to be the release date for the CD, but on re-releases of oldies, let's say stuff from the 1950s, I often enter the date the song was originally released, more useful to me on oldies than the date the oldies CD was issued.

Be aware that with the metadata formats with most codecs, you can have multiple entries for some fields like artist, genre, and I think Album Artist. (someone more familiar with AIFF will have to clarify that for your case.) Different codecs have different ways of storing the multiple entries. But dBpoweramp makes it simple for you, just put a semicolon between the entries in the appropriate field. dBpoweramp will automatically convert that to the appropriate method of storing multiple entries for your codec when it saves the metadata.

Rip a few CDs, different artists, the same artist, compilations, multi-disc "box sets". See how they appear in your planned player(s) Sort out any issues early on. Also make sure you understand the difference between the tags (as you are entering or saving the from the providers) and the file and directory/folder names as they are stored on your storage media. What is most important is that the search screen(s) on your player(s) makes it easy for you to select what you want to listen to, not how they are actually stored on the computer. But for your education, it is the "naming" string that determines how they are stored. Generally, the default naming string that comes when you download dBpoweramp is adequate for almost all users.

Incidentally, you would have been better off to make this a new forum entry rather than as a reply to someone else's forum item, particularly as the OP's question was on a totally different question.

[sculen]

Thank you so much Schmidj. Regarding the Bit depth, Sample rate, and Channels, it defaults to [as source] for all three - is it ok to rip this, or should I select the CD recommended 16 bits, 44,100 samples per second or 44.1 and the channels for 2 (stereo) This was not the default already saved for AIFF.
Now I understand "Album Artist" vs just "Artist". Wish "Artist" would say "Track Artist" that would have been clearer.
Have many CDs that contain more than one disc, and noticed there is this 1/1 and 1/2, 2/2, etc. But since, in the Album field, I would add CD1 for disc one, and CD2 for disc 2, can I just leave it at 1/1 all the time as each individual disc would then stand as its own, albiet with the same album art. Or am I missing out on something with the 1/2 & 2/2? Foir example, Will The Circle Be Unbroken by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band is a 2 disc set. So I rip CD1 as 1/1 and make sure the Album field says Will The Circle Be Unbroken CD1. Then I rip CD2 as 1/1 and make sure the Album field says Will The Circle Be Unbroken CD2.
Thanks so much!!

[Spoon]

Unless you have other DSP effects, AIFF will save to 16 bits, 44,100 samples per second 2 channels.

[GBrown]

Can this thread be split from post #4 and on? It is a completely different topic than what was started.

[GBrown]

Have many CDs that contain more than one disc, and noticed there is this 1/1 and 1/2, 2/2, etc. But since, in the Album field, I would add CD1 for disc one, and CD2 for disc 2, can I just leave it at 1/1 all the time as each individual disc would then stand as its own, albiet with the same album art. Or am I missing out on something with the 1/2 & 2/2? Foir example, Will The Circle Be Unbroken by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band is a 2 disc set. So I rip CD1 as 1/1 and make sure the Album field says Will The Circle Be Unbroken CD1. Then I rip CD2 as 1/1 and make sure the Album field says Will The Circle Be Unbroken CD2.

It is your library, so how you prefer to use the disc number is up to you.

Though I am curious to know why you prefer to break up the Album names into individual titles. In most players adding the disc number to the Album field will mean each disc needs to be played separately and won't have any direct association to each other. The whole point of having the Discnumber and Totaldiscs fields is to allow you to indicate multi-disc sets under a single Album name and keep the Tracks in order.

If you are just starting out digitizing your CD library I would suggest you consider this before you go too far. There is a good reason for most of the tags!

[garym]

I agree with GBrown. All my multidisk albums I use a single title for the ALBUM. Then use Disc number tags. So my "Will the Circle" album shows up in my music server and players as a single album (which it is, despite having 2 CDs).

ALBUM: Will the Circle Be Unbroken
ALBUMARTIST: Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
ARTIST: These vary by each track depending on who is playing on that track
DISC: 1/2 or 2/2

[sculen]

Thank you GBrown and garym for responding on the multi disc albums. I'll try both ways with one or two and determine preference.
For now I'm still worried about the the 16 bits, 44,100 samples rate, 2 channel stereo under AIFF. The AIFF default is not that (and I have no other DSP effects), but rather it defaults to [as source] for all three - see photo
Is it ok to rip this way? Or should I manually select the CD recommended 16 bits, 44,100 sample rate or 44.1, and the channels for 2 (stereo) via the drop down? Or is it happening automatically even though it still shows as the [as source] default??? Again see photo attached below. Thank you.

[schmidj]

There are so many things which come down to personal taste, and things one would do different if starting again. But in many cases it just isn't worth starting again.

Case in point: Multi-disc sets. When I started using dBpoweramp over 10 years ago, I pretty much used the same file directory layout that I had used some years earlier when I ripped part of my collection to m4a to play on my Ipod. I had used Winamp as the ripper. Since Winamp and Ipods (AFAIR) had no way of dealing with multi-disk sets, I just ripped them as individual discs, and generally simply appended "disc 1 or disc 2 etc. to the album name. And since when I switched to using dBpoweramp and ripping to FLAC, i decided to rip the large number of never-ripped CDs (and new CDs I purchased) before going back and re-ripping the ones previously ripped to m4a on Winamp. In fact I finally only got the last of those re-ripped a little over a year ago. And I continued ripping multi-disc sets as individual CDs, although I now also enter the disc number and totaldisc tag information (number/total in dBpa but actually stored as two tags, as you'll discover when you use mp3tag to edit tags.) except when I forget to...

I could go into my files and change them, and revamp my naming string to match but I'm not sure it is worth the effort. While all my CDs are now ripped as FLAC (except for a few which suffered from disc rot or old CDR failure in the years between when I ripped them in Winamp and tried reripping them with dBpa). But I have several hundred Caribbean 78s that I still need to digitize, and the thousand or more Caribbean (mostly) LPs. Then there is all the video I shot on Hi-8 which also needs digitization, and the remainder of the live location DAT tapes also never digitized. Somehow, all of that is more important than rearranging how my few hundred multi-disc set CDs are stored. The various players I use find them just fine as is.

There is another issue. I think the majority of multi-disc sets I have were in fact record company ploys to make you purchase the same CDs twice. Initially issued as two or more individual CDs, then the identical (as seen by Accuraterip) CDs were packaged as a multi-disc set, often with a different title and artwork. I often didn't discover this until I eventually went to rip them, and was pissed to find I had been had by the record company. And often there is little to consider them as a multi-disc set except that they came shrink-wrapped together and now had matching artwork and title.

There are, of course, exceptions. The Beatles multi-CD releases, many classical and jazz box-sets and such. Recently I've bought a bunch of four-disc sets of the top 100 oldies by year. Those would be better all together in the same directory, as I often play the entire year together. I suppose I might go into Windows and move them together, then edit the appropriate tags in mp3tag, if I ever get around to it.

So little of this is set in concrete, there are several other things I would do different if starting over, and there are some ideas people have which they will probably regret later, but a lot of this is personal preference, or just how you initially set things up.

I suppose if I were starting now, I'd go with https://forum.dbpoweramp.com/member/27126-gbrown and https://forum.dbpoweramp.com/member/21568-garym but that thought never came up when I started using dBpoweramp. I will add one final comment: Be very careful checking the on-line metadata with these multi-disc sets. It is even more of a mess than most of the rest of it.

[schmidj]

I was going to make a couple of edits to correct sentence structure, but the forum won't let me edit it...

[garym]

I would use "as source" for all 3. And "as source" for a CD will be 16/44.1 stereo in any case. I don't use AIFF (I use FLAC). But are you saying that when you use "as source" it produces files that are NOT 16/44.1 stereo? That seems impossible because ALL CDs (redbook standard!) are 16/44.1.

[sculen]

Not sure what it produces. That's my concern. Not knowing or having anytype of confirmation. Just know what I see when ripping. Like I said maybe it's happening automatically even though it still shows as the [as source]. I am by no means an expert on this. Just want to make sure I am ripping properly before I continue on with 7400 more CDs.