RipServer

[Shadowtester]

Some very basic questions that I can't see fully answered yet. Sorry I'm not familiar at all with linux. If I use the Ripserver will I stll be able to see my music just like I do now and have the same access to it? What I mean is, will I be able to use explorer and right click and choose to use Dbpoweramp or mp3tag to tag or convert music? Will there be limitations with some window programs using the folders and files the music is stored in? Will I be able to rip with dbpoweramp or EAC to the new music folders? Right now I use a folder with shortcuts to my music stored in 2 folders, one with Flac, one with Mp3, will this still work with the Squeezebox in the new setup? I'm pretty experienced with Windows and Music, just not at all Servers or Linux. Thanks

You should be able to set up either a samba or nfs share and mount that on any other computer on your network either windows, linux, or mac and then you should be able to work on the file just as if its on the local computer.

[Ripfactory]

Hi all

My apologies for my silence over the last week , but I have been in the US and Canada ensuring products are arriving, shipping and all support is in place.

I have arrived back to the emerald isle and will be posting dedicated replies to all of the posts accrued in my abscence.

Thanks

[hubgods]

Thanks Ripfactory. I am anxious for my unit to ship from Ripstyles (hopefully this week), but still have a couple of questions for you:

1) You didn't mention which Monday, but I still cannot see the screen shots or manual at the link you provided.

2) In looking at the MFG site for the Nexus Psile chassis, I cannot figure out where you are putting the 2nd hard drive to support RAID 1. Is it mounted on its side up in the mainboard space?

As always, thanks for the time and effort.

Tom/hubgods

[spc337]

Ripserver User Manual -

I was just flipping through the manual and noticed that the Ripping Software can either rip MP3 or FLAC but not both simultaneously. Ripstation Micro allows you to rip to multiple encodings at the same time and store the digital files with different naming conventions and in different locations. This is a fantastic capability and would really like to see this same feature set on the rip server.

I plan to deploy the Ripserver with a non-techie who wants to play via SqueezeCenter and also have the same music available on his Ipod. Thus ripping both Flac/MP3 is important.

[DLORDE]

I plan to deploy the Ripserver with a non-techie who wants to play via SqueezeCenter and also have the same music available on his Ipod. Thus ripping both Flac/MP3 is important.

Agreed, I have a similar requirement. I'm looking to migrate from an underperforming DiskStation and want to rip my collection to Flac and MP3 for hifi and portable use respectively.

[gsawdy]

Agreed, I have a similar requirement. I'm looking to migrate from an underperforming DiskStation and want to rip my collection to Flac and MP3 for hifi and portable use respectively.

Not that this is the best solution (which would be for ripserver to do it in one pass), but as I understand it, dbPoweramp is very good for batch conversions FLAC -> MP3, etc. Maybe someone with experience can comment or correct this.

George

[Nonreality]

Not that this is the best solution (which would be for ripserver to do it in one pass), but as I understand it, dbPoweramp is very good for batch conversions FLAC -> MP3, etc. Maybe someone with experience can comment or correct this.

George

Yes not a problem at all for dbpoweramp. I usually rip with it to a saved profile. Flac to my Seagate Free Agent Pro 750db in the Lossless folder and Lame MP3 to the Lossy Music folder. But you could use the ripserver to rip to Flac and then just batch convert to Lame or ogg vorbis or what ever in batches with it. Replay gain is a bit different I've found with the batch converter. Too large of batchs and it doesn't seem to get the album gain, so I tend to limit it to about 10 albums at a time.

Hope this helps.

[DLORDE]

I've been trying Ripstation Micro for a couple of days, and it's pretty impressive, particularly for speed - except it doesn't seem to allow you to put the genre of the music in the output path - this is a major pain, as my collection is organised into folders by genre.

Can anyone recommend a tool that can move albums by genre (i.e. from artist/album/track to genre/artist/album/track) ? I'd rather not have to move each one by hand...

Oh, and it failed to correctly identify "Hot Music from Cuba 1907-1936" (http://www.amazon.com/Music-Cuba-190.../dp/B000001XYF), instead identifying it as 'Moon At Sea' by "Billy Thorburn and His Music".

It also failed to recognise Linn Records 'Schidlof Quartet' - Dvorak (http://www.linnrecords.com/recording-dvorak-cd.aspx). I entered it manually - I'm guessing it doesn't automatically update the online database?

[Nonreality]

I've been trying Ripstation Micro for a couple of days, and it's pretty impressive, particularly for speed - except it doesn't seem to allow you to put the genre of the music in the output path - this is a major pain, as my collection is organised into folders by genre.

Can anyone recommend a tool that can move albums by genre (i.e. from artist/album/track to genre/artist/album/track) ? I'd rather not have to move each one by hand...

Oh, and it failed to correctly identify "Hot Music from Cuba 1907-1936" (http://www.amazon.com/Music-Cuba-190.../dp/B000001XYF), instead identifying it as 'Moon At Sea' by "Billy Thorburn and His Music".

You can use Mediamonkey to organize your music by the use of masks in the output folders. ie c:\lossymusic\<genre>\<artist>\<album>\<track#> - <title>
this would make a folder C:\lossymusic\Alternative\Radiohead\In Rainbows\03 - Nude.mp4 as an example. Plus you can have it do this all automated. Very handy for music organization. The drawback, you have to get the retail version to have the auto organizing. The plus, it's not too expensive,does a ton of other stuff, and is well worth it to me.

[DLORDE]

You can use Mediamonkey to organize your music by the use of masks in the output folders. ie c:\lossymusic\<genre>\<artist>\<album>\<track#> - <title>
this would make a folder C:\lossymusic\Alternative\Radiohead\In Rainbows\03 - Nude.mp4 as an example. Plus you can have it do this all automated.

OK thanks, I'll check it out. I'm not afraid to pay for good utilities ;-)

Having said that, I have a nasty feeling I may have wasted some hours of ripping - it looks like RipStation Micro isn't always ripping perfect copies to Flac - and doesn't warn about it - see http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpo...7&postcount=12.

I will stop using it until the situation becomes clearer...