similar to: [Flac-users] CD archival best practices?

--- Dax Kelson <dax@gurulabs.com> wrote: > Goals: > > 1. Store meta data > 2. Be able to recreate and burn bit-for-bit accurate audio CDs from > archive. > 3. Be able to "generate" lossy format files (OggVorbis,MP3,etc) with > meta info intact when needed. > 4. One file per song. > 5. Files playable in XMMS and WinAMP3. > > Questions: > Q1. OGG

I see that this was the right place to fire off this question. Thanks for your feedback. It has given me a base to start some trials. I used to use EAC on Windows, but I tend to only use open source software as much as possible and I don't use Windows any more. I gave a brief look at abcde, but it is clear I need to look at this some more. It looks like it has the potential to do everything I

Hey all. I was an "early" adopter of mp3 (1994-1995), and I took great pains to use digital audio extractors and avoid jitter and whatnot thru proper hardware - back then, this was no mean feat. Well, I'm starting to switch to Ogg (dragging out all the CD's, starting over) and I want to know if anyone has an informed opinion on the merits or demerits of "normalization"

I have read some posts about using FLAC to archive CD collections and would like to get some feedback. I am torn between creating a bin and cue file with CDDB info and compressing that down with FLAC as a single file or the second method of ripping all the files out to wav and converting to FLAC and maybe saving the cue file in attempt to use it later. The first method I believe will pretty much

> You can ask. A bug report with priority 'enhancement' is probably the > best way to do that. I'd consider it. Thanks for your help, Michael. I have entered this as an enhancement request. <p>Also, for the record, I originally made this comment: > I am actually trying to get OggEnc up and running nicely with > AudioGrabber, but so far I no joy I

I am using CDex to encode my music into Flac. I am using the latest version of Flac (with the frontend etc.) and sending the rips to it as an 'external encoder' with the string: -8 -o %2 -T "artist=%a" -T "title=%t" -T "album=%b" -T "date=%y" -T "tracknumber=%tn" -T "genre=%g" - However, I am getting the below output/error with

I discovered FLAC earlier this year, and wrote flac-archive to archive my CDs to single FLAC files. I've been archiving my collection for months now, and have gotten it to a reasonable level of stability and robustness. I recently looked over this list's archive and saw a number of questions about doing this, with no clear solution emerging. So, here i am to offer my meager tools.

I'm having some difficulty getting into Ogg. Being my first time encoding to Ogg, I am left doubtful of the quality in reproduction. Hopefully, it is merely something that I am doing. My original intentions were to go through my CD collection and rip everything out at 224kps VBR. I began with an album I was relatively familiar with. I used FreeRip 2.53 initially, but found that I had

ok, i'm puzzeled here I just recently reinstalled windows 2k, and i've been useing EAC to rip my CDs for a while now. i wanted to test it out (i had to reconfigure it) so i put in a burned CD with a few pretty bad scratches (used a hunting knife to make em) When i rip it i don't get any errors (with CDex to) but of course when i listen to it i hear them. This is strange bceause

I've had this problem encoding oggs where the output file is small, like 24kbytes for a 4 minute song (tested at 128 and 160kbit). I'm running Windows 2000 and this has happened in oggenc, oggdrop, and CDEX, though I've also been able to get good encodings with each of these. I think the only clean encodings have been .wav's that I've made myself with SoundForge or CoolEdit,

Hi, I made backup-copies of several CDs. First I used eac (exactaudiocopy) for exact ripping to a single wav-file with cue sheet. Then I used flac --cuesheet=<cuefile> <wavfile> to get a flac file with internal cue sheet. I am on a linux system. eac is running in a vmware-windows (actually, eac is the only reason that I have a windows version running). At this point I have two

Thanks for all the great responses on tools to use - I have Exact Audio Copy and CDex working very well, and I've been working out all the kinks. Two questions, one very Vorbis related, one not :) 1) I know people have asked many times "What quality should I use". Well, I want to ask it again but in a narrower frame. I see less than 10% difference in size between 4.99 and 5.00 -

Hello wine users: Could someone, please, help me how to make work EAC with wine in openSUSE 10.2? Earlier (SUSE 10.1) I could configure wine to use windows 2000 as default windows version and EAC to use 'native Win32 interface for WinNT/2000/XP' and these worked together fine. Now in openSUSE 10.2 (wine version wine-0.9.37-12.1) when I start EAC with wine I get: a) when the interface

FYI, looks like more people need to let SonicBLUE know that OGG support is an important factor in there purchasing decisions. Dax ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Paul Crossley <pcross@sonicblue.com> To: 'Dax Kelson' <dax@gurulabs.com> Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 08:21:31 -0800 Subject: RE: OGG support in Rio Riot? Hi Dax, We have no current plans to support OGG,

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > > I've been working on this sort of approach using abcde as a front-end, > and have run into several issues. What I finally decided on doing is > ripping the CD to a single flac file with embedded cue sheet using a > variety of tools (more details later). The single flac file is then > enough to pretty much reconstruct the

I posted this in the Hydrogenaudio Forums (http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=31347) but I'll post it here as well, hope that's ok... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Hello, I am having a lot of problems with tagging FLAC-files. I edited the tags in XMMS (in Linux) using the FLAC plugin, version 1.1.o. Playback worked fine with

I just uploaded a new FLAC FAQ: http://flac.sourceforge.net/faq.html Let me know if I forgot any common questions. Josh __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com

I'm currently using CDex with the string: -8 -V -T artist="%a" -T album="%b" -T title="%t" -T date="%y" -T tracknumber="%tn" -T genre="%g" --replay-gain -o "%2" "%1" but I decided I don't need/want ReplayGain since I can't stand how low (quiet) it plays. Funny thing is I edited the RG part

I've just started to archive my CD collection (about 800 CDs), and my criteria are pretty much the same as the original message under this subject, except that I'm doing one file per CD. One file per song is just too much of a pain, and there's really no need, given FLAC's ability to have metadata in the file. The first thing I do is run cd-discid against the cd, and store that

I think the new web page is wonderful. However, one thing annoyed me. Some programs on 'Other Software Which Supports Ogg Vorbis' page at Vorbis.com seems to be bit problematic. As far as I know, at least two of them have not updated their plug-ins for a while. 1. 'CD-DA X-Tractor' vorbenc-20001018.zip as 'Latest released version of vorb_enc.dll' 2. 'Media