Uncheck other meta formats in the ripping app. Only ‘Flac’ and ‘Vorbis’ meta to be used. id3 tags are not valid for Flac formats and not to be used.Metadata/‘tag’ notes that apply to all (for. In case this is of interest to anyone, i'll probably update/repost this whenever I make changes to how I am building my 'digital library'. Removed the containing folder Tom Jones: The Complete Decca Studio Albums. Tango In The Night (Expanded Edition) Įxample 3: Album collections e.g. Tried naming with disc#-Track# but not happy so far with bundling multi discs into single folder e.g. That would be another reason to keep to folders per disc.Įxample 2: Multi-disc/expanded/deluxe albums, including mulit-format e.g. Other music players on Linux (that I found so far) are not worth talking about.Ĭurrent folder structure, but I'm considering adding the release years (including original release and this release) to the disc folder names e.g. A lot to critisise, but that's because I give a damn. It's good with renaming and tag editing too (but not tag lookups). Trying Quod Libet music player on Linux. Still need to use other sources like Discogs to verify disc editions. Once I'm more comfortable with it's abilities I may add submissions to it's database as I'm ripping discs. Trying MusicBrainz Picard for identifying discs and tracks. Not found any better alternative on Linux. Should not be this difficult to simply organise and play music. If I make a change to the metadata (such as changing the Album Artist's name to "Jackson, Michael") it will reorganize my files to the new locations.Īppreciate your input. I use MediaMonkey to manage my Music Library and it takes care of automatically organizing my music based on the metadata. The reason I use a two-digit track number is to ensure that the files will sort in the proper order as follows: The reason I truncate the Album Artist's Name, Album Name, and Track Name, is to ensure that the total file path is not too long (the above should keep it to less than 128 characters). The reason for using a folders named the first letter of the Album Artist's name is to ensure that don't have too many artists in one folder. Track 01 - Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'.flac.Using your example, I would organize it as follows: I do the following when it comes to organizing my music files (each line is a folder level, anything between is a variable): Tom Jones: The Complete Decca Studio Albums Tango In The Night (Expanded Edition) CD2.logĮxample 3: Album collections e.g. Tango In The Night (Expanded Edition) CD2 Tango In The Night (Expanded Edition) CD1.log Tango In The Night (Expanded Edition) CD1 01 Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’.flacĮxample 2: Multi-disc/expanded/deluxe albums round brackets vs square brackets vs no brackets, special characters, etc? artwork? Further specific formatting e.g. Suggestions re organising/structure, naming/formatting of folders, tracks, log files, other files e.g. This is my current best guess formatting and structure. tagged with a pointer to the artwork or other asset files. However.I think it’s strange that artwork is embedded into track files, duplicating it over and over when it could be e.g. Is there a practical limit to file size when embedding artwork into the flac? What about other art inside gatefold cases, the booklet, back cover? Can all these be embedded? Should I put these in a subfolder per disc called e.g. What do you name these? Same with artwork. I see the value in keeping a rip/conversion. If they are not otherwise useful why is the ripping software I’m using (free:ac) allowing me to output cue sheets if it’s specified the tracks be split into their respective flac files? Is there a reason (however small) to use cue sheets? I’m guessing they are practically only useful for single file rips. Are these issues typical? Do you typically manually check albums on sites like Discogs? CDDB info is almost always inaccurate, typically the genre is wrong, including the reissue/remaster year are missing therefore not distinguished between reissues, with typically only the original album year being tagged… among other issues like mistakes with capitalisation. Seeking your input in organising, naming, conversion, etc about the following (or anything else!). Began ripping the cd’s yesterday.then stopped to give it more thought. Keen on moving away from digital-only music libraries and third party cloud services.
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