Re: Click n Rip

[Wayne <Wayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Tim,
Thanks for the offer, I might just take you up on that :) - one thing to be
mindful of, my mail server wont allow any executable code through it so if
there's a .zip package that would be ideal!

Thanks
Wayne.


On 18 Feb 2010, at 08:34, Tim Hawes wrote:

> 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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