Re: Re: Media Servers

["Andy Laurence" <andy@xxxxxxx>]

From: "Bruno Prior" <bruno@xxxxxxx>
> Andy Laurence wrote:
> > From: "Keith Doxey" <ukha@xxxxxxx>
> >>Being an ex DJ my music collection is 99.99% based around
singles and
> >>complilation albums. Everything else out there was designed
for "an
album
> >
> > by
> >
> >>an artist" where all tracks are by the same artist. That
does not fit my
> >>collection at all.
> >
> >
> > Sounds like my collection really.  I get put off by the
album/artist
thing.
> > I generally use the software that does this, and have a
"various
artists"
> > artist for compilations, and singles sit with the albums. 
Can be
cumbersome
> > though!
>
> This used to annoy me too, but if you've got a linux box, check out
Grip
> / DigitalDJ. Grip (a CD ripper/encoder) now includes a
"multi-artist"
> checkbox, so if it's a compilation album, you tick the checkbox and
it
> gives you the option to record different artists for different
tracks.
> If the FreeDB info includes both artist and track in a standard
format
> (say separated by a hyphen or slash), it will split the information
and
> fill in the artists for the various tracks for you.
>
> This still can't be recorded in ID3v1 tags, but it can be recorded
in
> ID3v2 tags, and on DigitalDJ. This is a complementary MP3 organiser
to
> Grip, which is based on a database, and organises the data similarly
to
> how Keith describes. But Grip will automatically upload this data to
the
> database when you rip the CD, which should save some typing in. It
also
> includes other nice features, like a gain adjustment field, which
might
> appeal to the DJ in Keith.

Cheers, I'll take a peek if I have time left after the cabling this
weekend.

Andy (just realised the backplates are a few mm too small)

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