Re: Click n Rip

[Ben McCormack <yahoogroup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dare I suggest iTunes?


Regards
Ben McCormack

On 18 Feb 2010, at 00:54, Wayne <Wayne@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Thanks for the replies so far,
> Initial thoughts on what has been suggested so far,
>
> GRIP - Unfortunately - no Linux access so I cant make use of that
> one - sorry :(
>
> EAC - Interestingly, having googled this one and tried to download
> an and run it My AV software (Nod32) pops up and suggests that there
> is an AD.Software issue with it - so I haven't been able to install
> that - steered clear just in case something has been compromised.
>
> Which leaves RipStation. On the face of it - looks ok and seems to
> do the job nicely and may well be a contender. You can indeed set up
> destination paths and file names based on ID3 tags. It has a default
> RipTo directory that is changeable and it remembers what your last
> settings were between restarts. Even downloads album art for too!
> Haven't yet listened to the results - been too busy feeding it disks!
>
> Niggles with it so far though, you have to sign up to their CD
> database in order for it to work (nothing major there) but there
> seems to be a problem on how they are tagging some ID data
> (admittedly only tried it with one set so far). This posed a problem
> a compilation multi cd set I just happened to have to hand.
> 1st disk - ok - decided to use the format of 'Artist\Year - Album
> \Artist - Album - TrackNumber - TrackTitle.mp3. Tracks were coming
> out with 'Various' as the Artist and they used 'TrackTitle' to hold
> 'Artist name / TrackTitle' (note the forward slash), so getting
> around the Artist being 'various'. This would then create correctly
> the path and file name as needed with the '/' being replaced with a
> '-'. Now, on disk 2, someone decided that instead of  '/' used to
> separate the artist from track name was going to be a '\'. This then
> didn't get translated to a '-' and subsequently added the file
> inside another partly formed subdirectory. Unfortunately - you also
> cant edit the data the program retrieves if you think its wrong (had
> an 'unknown' track on a disk with a bonus track that wasn't tagged
> correctly) so not as flawless as I would have liked.
>
>
> Unless anyone has any more suggestions?
>
> Thanks
> Wayne.
>
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> On 17 Feb 2010, at 21:58, Brougham Baker wrote:
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>> From: "Wayne" <Wayne@xxxxxxx>
>>> Was wondering if anyone has found program / created / has
scripts
>>> to allow
>>> a none tech user have a real simple way of ripping to mp3's
(or
>>> any other
>>> format) cd's when you load them into your cd drive?
>>
>> I'd be very interested to see what you go with in the end- i need
>> to do this
>> for my brother too- DVD and audio cd's.
>>
>> Bro
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