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I'm setting up my software to rip about 3000 CDs to .flac files to use on a McIntosh stereo system at our new home. I purchased J Rivers Media Center and dbpoweramp. It setting up DBPA, I've run into a serious (for me) problem. I save all my album files to one directory. Each track is saved with the <artist> <album> <track>. I used this process when I ripped all my CDs to MP3 files using a program called Easy CD-DA Extractor and the J. Rivers software finds them and reads them well, and shows the artwork appropriately.
Last night I set up a new, test folder, and started using DBPA to rip a couple of test CDs and get all my settings set up. The first CD went quite well (love how fast DBPA finds album art). When I went to add a second album, I discovered the album artwork for the first album disappeared. After some investigation, I determined that when DBPA rips an album, it saves the album art to a file called folder.jpg. When more than one album is put in the same folder, it overwrites whatever "folder" file exists with a new file of the same name. Consequently, there is only one album cover, and it's always the last one ripped to the folder!?!?
How can I work around this? Why doesn't the program name the album cover file using the same convention as the album tracks.....or at least using the album name? Inquiring minds want to know <G>
Second related question -- if I saved all the files into multitiered folders like the default settings, will the J. Rivers software see all the albums the same way it sees them if they are all in one top level folder? I used the single level system as previously, I often used a file manager program to select music and just double clicked on whatever I wanted to listen to - then it would open the media player on my computer.
Thanks for your help.
Regards,
Bob
Last night I set up a new, test folder, and started using DBPA to rip a couple of test CDs and get all my settings set up. The first CD went quite well (love how fast DBPA finds album art). When I went to add a second album, I discovered the album artwork for the first album disappeared. After some investigation, I determined that when DBPA rips an album, it saves the album art to a file called folder.jpg. When more than one album is put in the same folder, it overwrites whatever "folder" file exists with a new file of the same name. Consequently, there is only one album cover, and it's always the last one ripped to the folder!?!?
How can I work around this? Why doesn't the program name the album cover file using the same convention as the album tracks.....or at least using the album name? Inquiring minds want to know <G>
Second related question -- if I saved all the files into multitiered folders like the default settings, will the J. Rivers software see all the albums the same way it sees them if they are all in one top level folder? I used the single level system as previously, I often used a file manager program to select music and just double clicked on whatever I wanted to listen to - then it would open the media player on my computer.
Thanks for your help.
Regards,
Bob
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