06 Nov 08 Forum

Basically a newb here-

I have a VB without any added services (people mention this and that service or program to retag or get the proper album covers for their tunes).

My collection has a few albums that are coming up 'unknown'.  I would be happy to retype the proper artisit, etc. but cannot figure out how to do this. 

My collection also has a few CDs of random MP3s that I would like to rip so that the random songs end up in the proper artist channels.  (i.e. a live Foo Fighters song from the radio — I would like it to end up in the foo fighters artist channel and not listed under WKRP)

Finally, I'd like to figure out the easiest way to fix incorrect album covers.

Any help for the above is greatly appreciated.

thanks

sully

Post edited 1:33 pm – June 25, 2010 by jcmoonraker
Post edited 1:34 pm – June 25, 2010 by jcmoonraker

I have been having a some success with Picard.  The UI is really weird but the audio fingerprinting PUID feature is awesome. It basically scans the tracks to figure out which album they should belong to.
http://musicbrainz.org/doc/PicardTagger

Definiltey read the help. http://musicbrainz.org/doc/How…..ith_Picard

There are some preferences I recommend changing. One is to set the folder location to /Vortexbox(or your IP)/files/music/flac otherwise when Picard saves it will create the album folder inside the already exisiting one.
The second place is to change the save script to match vortexbox's settings. I did something similar to this (I will dbl-check tonight):
$replace(%albumartist%-_-%album%/$num(%tracknumber%,2) %title%, ,_)
 
This just tells Picard to put underscores between spaces and to add the "-_-" between the album and artist. 

I also set it to not embed cover art into the FLAC file, and instead create the cover.jpg file but it has not been working properly.

I have been using http://www.mp3tag.de/en/ to do cleanup work.

 In theory you should be able to get picard to run on vortexbox automatically but I just got mine two days ago.

So I installed subsonic and it seems pretty sweet…I was able to change the names of the songs for an album, the artist, and the album title….as well as add tags…

however, when i use my SB controller it still says unknown artist, unknown album (though it gets the song name correct — when a song is playing it gets the album cover wrong, as well).

Do i have to use a different program to rename the files so that it is no longer saved under unknown_artist-unknown_album ?

Is it best to load my MP3s first, or does it not matter?

Me 3!

The joys of linux.

For what its worth – I've tried:

using my smb share from my opensuse lappy to vortexbox – it seems to rename (when changing the name in the files directory) the directory name but not the 01_unknown_01.flac etc. Sure thats going to be a permissions problem.

Tried subsonic, the tags are good, but the file names and directories are still bad.

Logging onto the vortexbox, using gnome (don't ask), nautilus, that doesn't work, so tried opening a terminal, log on as root, but it didn't want to go into nautilus. Will try to use terminal tomorrow I guess.

Am I missing anything really obvious? Links gratefully recieved.

Damn those obscure albums…