Flac - Sep 2004 - [Flac-users] software

Hello everyone!  I'd like to set up a FLAC jukebox on a Linux laptop.  What
do you guys recommend for software?  I need to be able to tag the files
according to the data I want in there, and then I need to be able to play
the files back in all kinds of crazy ways according to the tags.  What do
you guys recommend?

- Grant

On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 10:53:45AM -0800, Grant wrote:
> Hello everyone!  I'd like to set up a FLAC jukebox on a Linux laptop. 
What
> do you guys recommend for software?  
i'm really into rhythmbox right now (www.rhythmbox.org)
> I need to be able to tag the files according to the data I want in
> there, and then I need to be able to play the files back in all kinds
> of crazy ways according to the tags.  What do you guys recommend?
i'm not exactly sure i understand what you want to do but i imagine you
want you ripping software to tag the files automatically for you. i'm
using abcde right now. its a shell script that does the automatic
tagging with entries in cddb. (http://www.hispalinux.es/~data/abcde.php)
i'm experimenting with sound-juicer (a gnome2 app) and i might switch to
using that if it becomes more configurable. 

i hope this helps. if you have any other questions, feel free to fire
away. 

ben

On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 09:30:53AM -0800, Grant wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 10:53:45AM -0800, Grant wrote:
<snip>
> I'd like to be able to tag my FLAC files with fields I make up myself.
> Like, say I want to mark a file if I consider it to be played-out for me,
> and then have the option to disclude played-out files during playback. 
From
> the FAQ, it looks like RhythmBox can't tag files.  Could I tag a FLAC
file
> in that way with another app and then play it back in RythmBox in the way I
> describe?  I guess this is both a FLAC and RythmBox question.

as far as flac goes, i think its possible to have custom tags because
this is possible with vorbiscommet. i believe that metaflac can be used
to change the comments. 

on the rhythmbox side, there is no support for custom tags. i think
most players wouldn't support that kind of thing just b/c its seems that
it would have very minimal usage. rhymthbox does count how many times
you have played a song and will record a rating (1-4) that you can set.
i haven't found a way to sort by rating or by number of times played.
i imagine that it will be supported sometime in the future. if it takes
too long i might try to add it myself b/c it seems like a useful
feature. 

i hope this helped, 

ben