Re: Click n Rip

[Tim Hawes <timsyahoo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm happy to send you the copy of EAC & LAME I downloaded. It
won't be the
latest but it works for me. Dunno though whether you AV issue was with the
version you downloaded or the application generally.

Cheers,

Tim.

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 11:54 PM, 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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