This dropped into my mailbox today, it might be of some assistance cataloguing your collection: http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2011/03/million-song-dataset-take-it-its-free.ars On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Stephen Gregory <oclug [ at ] kernelpanic [ dot ] ca>wrote: > On 11-03-10 08:47 AM, Robert P. J. Day: > > > > ... asked about ripping many CDs. > > > > I ripped my small collection of about 100 CD a few years back. I encoded > everything into flac. I used the very excellent command line tool > "abcde." It automagically pulled the CD information from the internet > giving me a chance to edit the result before ripping. > > Whatever tool you use I learned two important lessons: > > 1) always check the CD info. I found lots of typos and questionable > interpretations of track names. > > 2) most importantly: choose a good file/track naming scheme from the > start. Include the Artist and Album in the filename. Many programs don't > do this by default. It makes working with the files a pain later. (Of > course, you can always pull header information to rename the tracks later.) > > abcde excels at naming files. It handles multi-artist compilation albums > sanely by keeping the album together, instead of seperating it out by > artist. abcde also has options for substituting special characters out > of file names. (I also replace space with underscore because I am old > fashioned like that.) > > Once you have all the tracks in Flac it is relatively straight forward > to create mp3 copies. I wrote a big messy script to do it. > > -- > sg > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux mailing list > Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca > http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux > -- Cheers! Rick "It's a summons." "What's a summons?" "It means summon's in trouble." -- Rocky and Bullwinkle