[ale] CD ripping and maintaining album and track number

[James Sumners]

If you're not adding ID3 tags[1] to the files then players like iTunes
are going to screw up. FLAC has some sort of tag support, but I've
never seen a player actually recognize them. So, you'll need to store
the data in a format that you can read later and add to the MP3s.
Failing that, you might try this format:

01_Artist_-_Album_-_Song_Title

iTunes might be able to pick that up a little better than just trying
to match the song title. You might also do a search for "scene mp3
rules" for some other naming... suggestions. Player authors may not
admit it, but I bet they keep up.

[1] -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ID3

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 8:19 AM, Jeff Hubbs <jhubbslist at att.net> wrote:
> I use Grip on Gentoo to go from CD to FLAC and I have my own Python
> script that uses sox and lame to make MP3s.  So I have a pair of similar
> directory trees, one with FLACs and MP3s (the latter when that's the
> format of my original) and one with MP3s made from the FLACs and copies
> of the original FLACs.  Something I'm not doing right and need to fix
> (because my daughter gripes at me) is that I'm not handling track order
> properly somewhere along the line...When a directory of songs
> (representing an album) gets pulled into an iTunes library, I want to
> have it where the songs will get grouped by album and the songs on each
> album will play in the original order.  I've been doing it by starting
> song names with track numbers (e.g., "01_tom_sawyer.mp3) but that screws
> up browsing for songs by name on the iPhone and other devices.  Is there
> a way I can I maintain track number info from CD to FLAC to MP3 or do I
> need to have a more elaborate Grip configuration that makes FLACs and
> MP3s at the same time?



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