How do you organize your digital music files?

[huggy59]

Rupp, with a version of EAC, you can remove digital rights limitations from your rips, which can be important in a networked environment depending on the players you use. Plus it allows ripping to many different formats and using external encoders. And it's not a Microsoft product that goes out and checks multiple remote media and web sites every time you start it up, and it doesn't have security issues related with Internet access like WMP.

 

[rocco]

But most important to me, is EAC does everything possible to read the data stream off of the CD without errors. Every other ripper I have tried will rip bad data to the MP3 when it rips my test disk. EAC will recover the errors on that disk, but it takes a few hours.

I guess the other software companies don't want to write drivers for all of the variations of CD drives, as EAC has done.

 

[huggy59]

Ok, here's the scripts I use to make my master "everything" list. It consists of a master batch file (mkalllists.bat) I use to create lists and call some vbscripts to do some path replacements based on the way my network system and clients maps drives, etc.

I've sanitized them to just use local paths (D: drive), but you can do whatever you wish. In my local system, all subdirs for my music files are in D:\MUSIC\ (which is the share point on my Windows 2000 server and shows up as a the N:\ drive mapping on all domain machines, hence my need to modify the drive\path info of the lists), with all my playlists in D:\MUSIC\_PLAYLISTS\. On the Audreys, I use \music\... as the mount point, so I replace the "D:\" with "\music\" in the paths in the lists I use from the Audreys and linux systems. I also have to NOT include the .ogg files in my collection for the Audrey lists because Audrey's player can't play .ogg format. Here you go:


[MkAllLists.bat]

@echo off
rem =====  Create a list of all the mp3 files in the music subdir
  dir /b/s d:\music\*.mp3 > d:\music\_playlists\dirlist.m3u

rem =====  Modify the path on that list for Audrey use
rem   call d:\music\mkaudall.vbs

rem =====  Now add OGG and others Audrey can't deal with...  add others as needed
rem   dir /b/s d:\music\*.ogg >> d:\music\_playlists\dirlist.m3u

rem =====  And make the master list
  call d:\music\mkall.vbs

==========================================

[MkAll.vbs]

  Dim fso, s1, FIn, FOut

  Const ForReading = 1
  Const ForWriting = 2

  Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
  Set FIn = fso.OpenTextFile("d:\music\_playlists\dirlist.m3u", ForReading)
  Set FOut = fso.CreateTextFile("d:\music\_playlists\all.m3u", True)

  do until FIn.atendofstream = true
    s1 = FIn.ReadLine
    FOut.WriteLine replace(s1, "d:\", "\")
  loop

  FOut.Close
  FIn.Close

  Set fso = nothing

==========================================

[MkAudAll.vbs]

  Dim fso, s1, FIn, FOut

  Const ForReading = 1
  Const ForWriting = 2

  Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
  Set FIn = fso.OpenTextFile("d:\music\_playlists\dirlist.m3u", ForReading)
  Set FOut = fso.CreateTextFile("d:\music\_playlists\audall.m3u", True)

  do until FIn.atendofstream = true
    s1 = FIn.ReadLine
    FOut.WriteLine replace(s1, "d:\", "\")
  loop

  FOut.Close
  FIn.Close

  Set fso = nothing

=========================================

 

[bfisher]

To take this thread a little farther - where do you buy/download your music from? I've ripped all my CDs and lately have been just buying songs as I like them (I continue to buy the "must-haves" but most music I'm happy with just 4-5 songs off a disc). I've been using MusicMatch and am relatively happy... just wondering if there is a site out there everybody else likes better (MM doesn't have everything I want).