[EAC] question about folders

[emily [e-mail] [EAC]]

hi.

i have a question:

i recently got the tori amos little earthquakes deluxe cd (2 cds), and
this morning ripped them with the software

while the cd look up told me that it was "little earthquakes CD1", and
"little earthquakes cd2", when i ripped the individual cds, they went in
to the same folder. so i ended up having to sort out the tracks and make
my own folder called CD2 (just coppied and pasted the tracks from CD2 in
to the new folder)

why is this?

surely if the cd says it's cd 1 and cd2, that's how it should show up in
the folders

[[e-mail] [EAC]]

Educated guess: you haven't specified the %albumtitle%\ prefix in your
EAC options (F9). E.g.:
%albumtitle%\%tracknr2% - %title%
will rip to two separate directories. Note the "\" directory separator.

--Martin

Post by emily ***@mail.com [EAC]
hi.
i recently got the tori amos little earthquakes deluxe cd (2 cds), and
this morning ripped them with the software
while the cd look up told me that it was "little earthquakes CD1", and
"little earthquakes cd2", when i ripped the individual cds, they went in
to the same folder. so i ended up having to sort out the tracks and make
my own folder called CD2 (just coppied and pasted the tracks from CD2 in
to the new folder)
why is this?
surely if the cd says it's cd 1 and cd2, that's how it should show up in
the folders
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[[e-mail] [EAC]]

While naming of a directory automatically for the cd you are currently ripping, it's best to have several profiles saved in EAC for each particular CD or CD Group. i.e. Album, Compilation (multiple artists), Multi-CD. Various artists is my next guess for your next question.

The link below will help you to understand all command line entries available, understanding these is a priority for you to gain full enjoyment from the program, EAC.

http://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=EAC_placeholders

If I was on my PC I could show you some examples easily, mobile tech is so awesome now that the PC is often forgotten and lonely at home.

-T "DISCNUMBER=%cdnumber%"

[Fernando De Leon [e-mail] [EAC]]

Emily,

I've had the same problem. I don't know how to get EAC to automatically
put each CD in a different folder. I also use CDEX for ripping ... it does
automatically put each CD in separate folders.

I work around it by creating an EAC folder where all CDs get ripped into,
and copy each into the final destination folder after each CD is ripped.

Fernando

Post by emily ***@mail.com [EAC]
hi.
i recently got the tori amos little earthquakes deluxe cd (2 cds), and
this morning ripped them with the software
while the cd look up told me that it was "little earthquakes CD1", and
"little earthquakes cd2", when i ripped the individual cds, they went in
to the same folder. so i ended up having to sort out the tracks and make
my own folder called CD2 (just coppied and pasted the tracks from CD2 in
to the new folder)
why is this?
surely if the cd says it's cd 1 and cd2, that's how it should show up in
the folders

[[e-mail] [EAC]]

I do it exactly the other way around: I add "(CD1)" and "(CD2)" to the title of the album. Then EAC believes these are two differents CDs and creates two folders. But the drawback is that my players also think these are two different albums, so I use MP3Tag to retag the files in the folders. So in the end, I does not save time compared to the other solutions.

[Fernando De Leon [e-mail] [EAC]]

Good tip, thanks

Post by ***@rmohseni.de [EAC]
I do it exactly the other way around: I add "(CD1)" and "(CD2)" to the
title of the album. Then EAC believes these are two differents CDs and
creates two folders. But the drawback is that my players also think these
are two different albums, so I use MP3Tag to retag the files in the
folders. So in the end, I does not save time compared to the other
solutions.

[Fred Maxwell [e-mail] [EAC]]

I rip to separate folders and then fix the tracks on CD2 so that they start at the last track of CD1. In other words, if CD1 has 13 tracks, CD2 track 1 becomes track 14, CD2 track 2 becomes track 15, etc. I fix it in the track name and in the ID3 Tag of each. Then I dump everything into one folder (artist\album\track#. track_name.{FLAC, MP3, AAC, etc.).

It’s a bit time consuming, but I’m not ripping hundreds of double CDs every week.

Regards,
Fred

Post by Fernando De Leon ***@gmail.com [EAC]
Good tip, thanks
I do it exactly the other way around: I add "(CD1)" and "(CD2)" to the title of the album. Then EAC believes these are two differents CDs and creates two folders. But the drawback is that my players also think these are two different albums, so I use MP3Tag to retag the files in the folders. So in the end, I does not save time compared to the other solutions.

['Mark P. Fishman' [e-mail] [EAC]]

My approach is to put the disc number into the trackname. So for CD1, I'd
use a naming convention of "01-%tracknr2% - %title%", and then change that
when ripping CD2, and so on. Some rippers (e.g., iTunes) and taggers
(e.g.mp3tag) let you put in a disc number as one of the tags, but I find
that I want the files themselves to sort properly.

If you're having EAC build m3u (playlist) files while you rip, you do have
to have the CD number in the album name or else the info for CD2 will
overwrite the info for CD1, and so on.

Post by Fred Maxwell ***@anti-spam.org [EAC]
I rip to separate folders and then fix the tracks on CD2 so that they
start at the last track of CD1. In other words, if CD1 has 13 tracks, CD2
track 1 becomes track 14, CD2 track 2 becomes track 15, etc. I fix it in
the track name and in the ID3 Tag of each. Then I dump everything into one
folder (artist\album\track#. track_name.{FLAC, MP3, AAC, etc.).
It's a bit time consuming, but I'm not ripping hundreds of double CDs
every week.
Regards,
Fred
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Good tip, thanks

Post by ***@rmohseni.de [EAC]
I do it exactly the other way around: I add "(CD1)" and "(CD2)" to the
title of the album. Then EAC believes these are two differents CDs and
creates two folders. But the drawback is that my players also think these
are two different albums, so I use MP3Tag to retag the files in the
folders. So in the end, I does not save time compared to the other
solutions.

[Fernando De Leon [e-mail] [EAC]]

Along time ago, in a Windows 98 era, there was a cool little program called
Ulead Photo Explorer ver.7 ... It won't run in Win7 and later. It has the
spiffiest file renaming function I've ever seen ... Just highlight the
group of photos, or audiobook tracks and give it the name pattern (e.g. War
and Peace-Disc 1-01 ...) and poof ... all done. I still use it on my Win
XP machine. It is one of those programs that you can copy into the
"program files" directory and double-click on the *.reg file to install.
The company got bought up by Corel and the program is on the shelf, so
you'll have to look through the used software sources to find it, but it is
worth it. Anyone know of a Win 7 era equivalent?

I also use "MP3 book helper" (shareware) to set all the internal MP3 tags
on the files.

Fernando

Post by 'Mark P. Fishman' ***@alum.mit.edu [EAC]
My approach is to put the disc number into the trackname. So for CD1, I'd
use a naming convention of "01-%tracknr2% - %title%", and then change that
when ripping CD2, and so on. Some rippers (e.g., iTunes) and taggers
(e.g.mp3tag) let you put in a disc number as one of the tags, but I find
that I want the files themselves to sort properly.
If you're having EAC build m3u (playlist) files while you rip, you do have
to have the CD number in the album name or else the info for CD2 will
overwrite the info for CD1, and so on.

Post by Fred Maxwell ***@anti-spam.org [EAC]
I rip to separate folders and then fix the tracks on CD2 so that they
start at the last track of CD1. In other words, if CD1 has 13 tracks, CD2
track 1 becomes track 14, CD2 track 2 becomes track 15, etc. I fix it in
the track name and in the ID3 Tag of each. Then I dump everything into one
folder (artist\album\track#. track_name.{FLAC, MP3, AAC, etc.).
It’s a bit time consuming, but I’m not ripping hundreds of double CDs
every week.
Regards,
Fred
------------------------------
Good tip, thanks

Post by ***@rmohseni.de [EAC]
I do it exactly the other way around: I add "(CD1)" and "(CD2)" to the
title of the album. Then EAC believes these are two differents CDs and
creates two folders. But the drawback is that my players also think these
are two different albums, so I use MP3Tag to retag the files in the
folders. So in the end, I does not save time compared to the other
solutions.

--
"While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are
descended from cats."
-- Mark Twain

[[e-mail] [EAC]]

I've been using Tagscanner for years to do file tags and renaming etc.
Works great.


http://www.xdlab.ru/en/


Don't be scared by the Russian pedigree. I've never had any problems
downloading or using it.


Tom

Along time ago, in a Windows 98 era, there was a cool little program called Ulead Photo Explorer ver.7 ... It won't run in Win7 and later. It has the spiffiest file renaming function I've ever seen ... Just highlight the group of photos, or audiobook tracks and give it the name pattern (e.g. War and Peace-Disc 1-01 ...) and poof ... all done. I still use it on my Win XP machine. It is one of those programs that you can copy into the "program files" directory and double-click on the *.reg file to install. The company got bought up by Corel and the program is on the shelf, so you'll have to look through the used software sources to find it, but it is worth it. Anyone know of a Win 7 era equivalent?
I also use "MP3 book helper" (shareware) to set all the internal MP3 tags on the files.
Fernando
My approach is to put the disc number into the trackname. So for CD1, I'd use a naming convention of "01-%tracknr2% - %title%", and then change that when ripping CD2, and so on. Some rippers (e.g., iTunes) and taggers (e.g.mp3tag) let you put in a disc number as one of the tags, but I find that I want the files themselves to sort properly.
If you're having EAC build m3u (playlist) files while you rip, you do have to have the CD number in the album name or else the info for CD2 will overwrite the info for CD1, and so on.
I rip to separate folders and then fix the tracks on CD2 so that they start at the last track of CD1. In other words, if CD1 has 13 tracks, CD2 track 1 becomes track 14, CD2 track 2 becomes track 15, etc. I fix it in the track name and in the ID3 Tag of each. Then I dump everything into one folder (artistalbumtrack#. track_name.{FLAC, MP3, AAC, etc.).
It's a bit time consuming, but I'm not ripping hundreds of double CDs every week.
Regards,
Fred
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Good tip, thanks
I do it exactly the other way around: I add "(CD1)" and "(CD2)" to the title of the album. Then EAC believes these are two differents CDs and creates two folders. But the drawback is that my players also think these are two different albums, so I use MP3Tag to retag the files in the folders. So in the end, I does not save time compared to the other solutions.

--
"While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are
descended from cats."
-- Mark Twain





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[Lin Sprague [e-mail] [EAC]]

Post by ***@lycos.com [EAC]
I've been using Tagscanner for years to do file tags and renaming etc.
Works great.
http://www.xdlab.ru/en/
Don't be scared by the Russian pedigree. I've never had any problems
downloading or using it.

My favorite is Mp3tag (http://www.mp3tag.de/en/). I'm constantly amazed
at what it can do. Its search and replace features are extensive and
amazing.

[Fernando De Leon [e-mail] [EAC]]

Thanks for the tip ... I'll check it out.

Fernando

Post by ***@lycos.com [EAC]
I've been using Tagscanner for years to do file tags and renaming etc.
Works great.
http://www.xdlab.ru/en/
Don't be scared by the Russian pedigree. I've never had any problems
downloading or using it.
Tom
Along time ago, in a Windows 98 era, there was a cool little program
called Ulead Photo Explorer ver.7 ... It won't run in Win7 and later. It
has the spiffiest file renaming function I've ever seen ... Just highlight
the group of photos, or audiobook tracks and give it the name pattern (e.g.
War and Peace-Disc 1-01 ...) and poof ... all done. I still use it on my
Win XP machine. It is one of those programs that you can copy into the
"program files" directory and double-click on the *.reg file to install.
The company got bought up by Corel and the program is on the shelf, so
you'll have to look through the used software sources to find it, but it is
worth it. Anyone know of a Win 7 era equivalent?
I also use "MP3 book helper" (shareware) to set all the internal MP3 tags on the files.
Fernando

Post by 'Mark P. Fishman' ***@alum.mit.edu [EAC]
My approach is to put the disc number into the trackname. So for CD1,
I'd use a naming convention of "01-%tracknr2% - %title%", and then change
that when ripping CD2, and so on. Some rippers (e.g., iTunes) and taggers
(e.g.mp3tag) let you put in a disc number as one of the tags, but I find
that I want the files themselves to sort properly.
If you're having EAC build m3u (playlist) files while you rip, you do
have to have the CD number in the album name or else the info for CD2 will
overwrite the info for CD1, and so on.
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 3:42 PM, Fred Maxwell _

Post by Fred Maxwell ***@anti-spam.org [EAC]
I rip to separate folders and then fix the tracks on CD2 so that they
start at the last track of CD1. In other words, if CD1 has 13 tracks, CD2
track 1 becomes track 14, CD2 track 2 becomes track 15, etc. I fix it in
the track name and in the ID3 Tag of each. Then I dump everything into one
folder (artist\album\track#. track_name.{FLAC, MP3, AAC, etc.).
It's a bit time consuming, but I'm not ripping hundreds of double CDs every week.
Regards,
Fred
------------------------------
Good tip, thanks

Post by ***@rmohseni.de [EAC]
I do it exactly the other way around: I add "(CD1)" and "(CD2)" to the
title of the album. Then EAC believes these are two differents CDs and
creates two folders. But the drawback is that my players also think these
are two different albums, so I use MP3Tag to retag the files in the
folders. So in the end, I does not save time compared to the other
solutions.

--
"While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are
descended from cats."
-- Mark Twain