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using you great and thought trough application for a few days now with much more pleasure than anything I had before (I have downloaded and installed everything including 13.1 beta).
Since I have already ripped half of my CD-collection (12.000 tracks....), I'd rather rip the rest and not start reripping the already existing.
Now, a few questions, that I encountered within the last days - thanks in advance for bearing with me and helping me:
1. Most of my classical collection is missing important tags, that I could not add using EAC->freedb, like Conductor, Ensemble etc. Is there any way to look them up using this wonderful MetaData-Lookup you are providing in your CD-Ripper. If not, this would be a suggestion to add to your application (Either the "Edit ID-Tag" in the context menu or the batch encoder, with just using the Edit-ID-Tag plugin): add a Disc-Title, Artist and some more info you have and do a meta-data lookup with the different providers.... I have seen something similar (but not as efficient) with Tag&Rename, they look up their info with amazon, display a selection of possible matches and you select the proper album and get displayed the results.
2. When I select "Edit ID-tag" in the context menu and make chances, these seem not to be applied. In the context menu, I also do have "audioshell information" by softpointer. It still displays the old information after updating the ID-Tag with your "Edit ID-tag". Same goes for other applications, that read the tags, like JRiver Media-Center. ID-tags, that are created during ripping or conversion processes are read properly, though.
3. I seem to have trouble with certain tags, that are not existing in my current files or are used in different ways by different applications:
4. About 50% of the times, I get crashes of Windows Explorer when right clicking. This only happened after the installation of dbpoweramp. And: it only happens on my "big" computer, not on my laptop. Both run Win XP with all the latest updates. When I disable "Edit ID-Tag" to be shown in the context-menu, those crashes are gone. Any idea, what to look after to prevent that?
5. Since I have a lot of Classical music with European artists, I need to support special characters. Is it right, that I have to select UTF16 instead of ANSI? Will all applications understand UTF16 (I have read, that there also is UTF8...). Or am I mixing things up there?
6. I seem to get in trouble, when later on accessing the ripped files over the network. Somehow, it seems, that once you are directly working ON the computer where the files are, allowed lengths of paths are longer that when accessing them over the network (Some of them, I can neither rename nor index them over the network - it seems, these are the ones with really long filenames). What are allowed max. filename lengths (or max. allowed characters of a whole path, if applicable) when working over a network? I never encountered this error before, since I have been working directly on the computer, but now, I am building a home network and get these problems with all the files, that have long filenames
7. For some music, I chose to rip or convert using Multi-Encoder to mp3 and flac. Everything work fine with mp3, but writing flac failed for a strange reason. Never occured using the normal flac-encoder in dbpoweramp and doing mp3 in a second session. This MAY have something to do with path-lengths as well (is that some sort of command-line-task, where old DOS-rules apply?), but I am not sure. Please advise.
8: Finally, a question about multiple artist. Example: the famous Ella & Louis CD. What way would I use to make it possible, that later on, the songs are indexed both for Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong? Would that have to be entered in the Artist-Tag or in the Album-Artist Tag or both? Do different applications have different ways of treating this tag? Will the Artist tag be written two times, or is there a naming convention for Multiple Artists (I am not talking about Compilation albums!)?
Again, thanks for helping me along in that matter and bearing with my long list of questions.
using you great and thought trough application for a few days now with much more pleasure than anything I had before (I have downloaded and installed everything including 13.1 beta).
Since I have already ripped half of my CD-collection (12.000 tracks....), I'd rather rip the rest and not start reripping the already existing.
Now, a few questions, that I encountered within the last days - thanks in advance for bearing with me and helping me:
1. Most of my classical collection is missing important tags, that I could not add using EAC->freedb, like Conductor, Ensemble etc. Is there any way to look them up using this wonderful MetaData-Lookup you are providing in your CD-Ripper. If not, this would be a suggestion to add to your application (Either the "Edit ID-Tag" in the context menu or the batch encoder, with just using the Edit-ID-Tag plugin): add a Disc-Title, Artist and some more info you have and do a meta-data lookup with the different providers.... I have seen something similar (but not as efficient) with Tag&Rename, they look up their info with amazon, display a selection of possible matches and you select the proper album and get displayed the results.
2. When I select "Edit ID-tag" in the context menu and make chances, these seem not to be applied. In the context menu, I also do have "audioshell information" by softpointer. It still displays the old information after updating the ID-Tag with your "Edit ID-tag". Same goes for other applications, that read the tags, like JRiver Media-Center. ID-tags, that are created during ripping or conversion processes are read properly, though.
3. I seem to have trouble with certain tags, that are not existing in my current files or are used in different ways by different applications:
- what would be an official tag for an orchestra - is it "ensemble" or "band"? YOU use a tag called "band" in your context menu of "Edit ID Tag", other applications have a tag called "ensemble".
- Same goes with the "lyrics"-tag. If I enter something there (or choose a map-command to map my comments to the lyrics-tag), these informations for example do not show up on my Ipod, inside ITunes or inside my "server-program" (JRiver Media-Center). On the other hand, when I enter Lyrics in ITunes of JRiver (both recognize changes inside the respective other program), it would not show up in YOUR tags.
- are ID-Tags case sensitive - is Artist different from artist?
- is there some sort of "official list" on ID-tags, where I could look up naming conventions?
- Same goes with the "lyrics"-tag. If I enter something there (or choose a map-command to map my comments to the lyrics-tag), these informations for example do not show up on my Ipod, inside ITunes or inside my "server-program" (JRiver Media-Center). On the other hand, when I enter Lyrics in ITunes of JRiver (both recognize changes inside the respective other program), it would not show up in YOUR tags.
- are ID-Tags case sensitive - is Artist different from artist?
- is there some sort of "official list" on ID-tags, where I could look up naming conventions?
4. About 50% of the times, I get crashes of Windows Explorer when right clicking. This only happened after the installation of dbpoweramp. And: it only happens on my "big" computer, not on my laptop. Both run Win XP with all the latest updates. When I disable "Edit ID-Tag" to be shown in the context-menu, those crashes are gone. Any idea, what to look after to prevent that?
5. Since I have a lot of Classical music with European artists, I need to support special characters. Is it right, that I have to select UTF16 instead of ANSI? Will all applications understand UTF16 (I have read, that there also is UTF8...). Or am I mixing things up there?
6. I seem to get in trouble, when later on accessing the ripped files over the network. Somehow, it seems, that once you are directly working ON the computer where the files are, allowed lengths of paths are longer that when accessing them over the network (Some of them, I can neither rename nor index them over the network - it seems, these are the ones with really long filenames). What are allowed max. filename lengths (or max. allowed characters of a whole path, if applicable) when working over a network? I never encountered this error before, since I have been working directly on the computer, but now, I am building a home network and get these problems with all the files, that have long filenames
7. For some music, I chose to rip or convert using Multi-Encoder to mp3 and flac. Everything work fine with mp3, but writing flac failed for a strange reason. Never occured using the normal flac-encoder in dbpoweramp and doing mp3 in a second session. This MAY have something to do with path-lengths as well (is that some sort of command-line-task, where old DOS-rules apply?), but I am not sure. Please advise.
8: Finally, a question about multiple artist. Example: the famous Ella & Louis CD. What way would I use to make it possible, that later on, the songs are indexed both for Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong? Would that have to be entered in the Artist-Tag or in the Album-Artist Tag or both? Do different applications have different ways of treating this tag? Will the Artist tag be written two times, or is there a naming convention for Multiple Artists (I am not talking about Compilation albums!)?
Again, thanks for helping me along in that matter and bearing with my long list of questions.
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