I have thousands of audio files all of which were created and named with previous versions of dBpoweramp CD Ripper and ALL filenames end with a duration time stamp in the format (hh.mm.ss). A typical CD Ripper filenaming command would have been:
[artist] – [title] ([year]) ([Length])
and an example result in previous versions would have been (ignoring the double quotes):
"Hans Zimmer – One Day (2007) (4.01).ape"
Now in R12.2 Ref, the [Length] tag has been changed to output in milliseconds so the above filename becomes:
"Hans Zimmer – One Day (2007) (241560).ape"
Now to the average person, 241560 ms is a meaningless number, since most of us don’t think in milliseconds.
I noticed a previous person, Tod Zimmerman, complained about this problem in a thread posted 2007-03-08.
This change has essentially left me “high and dry”. I have CD’s I need to rip and the new filenames must remain consistent with older ones.
I am left with two options: a) don’t rip any CD’s until you correct this oversight, or b) uninstall the R12.2 reference version which I paid for and reinstall my previous version. Option A is not a viable option at this point in time – my work must progress!
In the future, if you wish to change the function or output of a tag, create a new one with a similar name, such as [Lengthms]. Don’t assume no one is depending on the tag’s functionality.