playlists and whole CD in one flac file ? tag for artwork ?

[TSAGI!]

Hi !

This my first message on this forum : I hope you will forgive my bad english and maybe that I didn't find the answer somewhere else in the threads.

I rip my CDs using EAC in a unique file + cuesheet, then compress the ..wav file with flac and then tag the .flac file with metaflac. All a CD in one file because I want to be able to lossly compress in the future without having to deal with the CD and having to guess "with or without gaps ?", in three steps because I carefully tag my files and beacause the --no-utf8-convert option in metaflac is the only method by which I can see circumflexes, acutes and so on (sorry, guys, I'm french ;-) ) in Slimserver.
I use Slimserver 5.3.1 (5.4.0 since this morning) on XP SP2, wired and wireless squeezeboxes.

1. I can play the tracks I want but when I save them in a playlist, the whole flac file is saved not the track (xxx.flac, not xxx.flac#aaa-bbb in the m3u file) so the playlist is useless.
Is this something you encountered or do I make something wrong ?

2. All the classic tags are perfect and I can browse albums, browse artists, browse genres but when I browse Music folder and select one of my flac files, all I can see is an empty line (finishing with "Play" and "Add to playlist" icons). Obviously, no sound...
What am I doing wrong, what am I supposed to see and what is the corresponding tag ?

3. I managed to get thumbnails of my flac files (in discrete folders for each file, with cover.jpg). If I would like to only have artist folders and the same name (without extension ofcourse) for the .flac file and the .jpg file, what would I tag ?
I tried some ARTWORK=filename.jpg, COVER=... without success.

That's all ! I have some more questions but I think I need to explore a little bit more before boring you with stupid questions.

Thanks for reading and your advices.

David

[David]

Thank you, Simon, for your answer.

I used to have the problems you describe (No Album, etc) but not anymore. I use
only embedded cuesheets and Vorbis comment like these :

METADATA block #3
type: 4 (VORBIS_COMMENT)
is last: false
length: 871
vendor string: reference libFLAC 1.1.1 20041001
comments: 32
comment[0]: REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_PEAK=0.97723389
comment[1]: REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_GAIN=-4.30 dB
comment[2]: REPLAYGAIN_ALBUM_PEAK=0.97723389
comment[3]: REPLAYGAIN_ALBUM_GAIN=-4.30 dB
comment[4]: GENRE=2. Rock (pas fran?s)
comment[5]: ARTIST=John Cougar Mellencamp
comment[6]: YEAR=1989
comment[7]: ALBUM=Big Daddy
comment[8]: TRACKNUMBER[1]=1
comment[9]: TITLE[1]=Big Daddy of them all
comment[10]: TRACKNUMBER[2]=2
comment[11]: TITLE[2]=To live
comment[12]: TRACKNUMBER[3]=3
comment[13]: TITLE[3]=Martha say
[...]

Like you, I don't have so much time to waste but... it seems that the guys at
SlimDevices are not so far from the answer. I've taken a look at __current.m3u
and __history.m3u. Here's what I've seen

(extract from __current.m3u)
#CURTRACK 0
#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:-1,Martha say
G:\Tests SlimServer\FLAC\Cougar Mellencamp, John - (1989) Big
Daddy.flac


(extract from __history.m3u)
G:\Tests SlimServer\FLAC\Cougar Mellencamp, John - (1989) Big
Daddy.flac


David

[michael]

Hello,

You're right about the playlist problem. I hadn't run into that
before. Would you file a bug on bugs.slimdevices.com about it?

Browsing Music Folder doesn't deal well with multiple songs in a
single file. This is a known problem, and since there are more serious
issues with container formats, this might not change too
soon. Hopefully it will get addressed eventually.

As for artwork location, this isn't really a tagging
issue. Theoretically, you'd handle this in Server Settings. Under the
Interface tab, there's an entry for finding Artwork.
There are some bugs with Browse by Artwork currently that may effect
this as well. (see bug 633 for example)

Overall, CD in a flac file (with either external or internal
cuesheets) is still a work in progress. All the basics work, and I am
able to use it for all my CDs and everyday listening. There are still
issues that need to be worked out however, before it's truly on par
with slim servers handling of individual songs.

I hope that helps

-michael


"TSAGI!" <tsagi (AT) free (DOT) fr> writes:
> Hi !
>
> This my first message on this forum : I hope you will forgive my bad english and maybe that I didn't find the answer somewhere else in the threads.
>
> I rip my CDs using EAC in a unique file + cuesheet, then compress the .wav file with flac and then tag the .flac file with metaflac. All a CD in one file because I want to be able to lossly compress in the future without having to deal with the CD and having to guess "with or without gaps ?", in three steps because I carefully tag my files and beacause the --no-utf8-convert option in metaflac is the only method by which I can see circumflexes, acutes and so on (sorry, guys, I'm french ;-) ) in Slimserver