Re: Digest Number 3337

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On 15 June 2018 at 04:58, <[email protected]> wrote:

> There are 2 messages in this issue.
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> Topics in this digest:
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> 1a. Re: Playback an album
>     From: Richard Heuston
> 1b. Re: Playback an album
>     From: Fred Maxwell
>
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> Messages
> ________________________________________________________________________
> 1a. Re: Playback an album
>     Posted by: "Richard Heuston" [email protected]
> [email protected]
>     Date: Thu Jun 14, 2018 11:43 am ((PDT))
>
> Hi Fred,
>
> Point taken about FLAC.
>
> I have been messing around since getting your email below, and feel that I
> still must be getting something very simple wrong.
>
> I take it that you have a music collection stored on your PC in a folder
> or in a media program, and when you open this folder to see what you want
> to play, you see albums covers with Album title and Artist, and when
> clicked on show the tracks in the album. If you click on track one your
> music player plays back the album.  I now have achieved doing all of the
> above with the exception of the album cover art work showing. A Jpeg of the
> album cover is in the album folder at the bottom of the tracks list, but
> what use is it if it doesn’t show up on the folder icon? Am I supposed to
> do something with the jpeg or am I not using the correct playback program?
> I’m a long way off getting my 500+ collection onto my NAS drive until I
> sort this out.
>
>
>
> Richard
>
>
>
> From: [email protected] <[email protected]>
> Sent: 11 June 2018 11:01 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [EAC] Re: Playback an album
>
>
>
>
>
> Hello Richard,
>
>
>
> Unless you have a very specific need for WMA9 Lossless, I’d recommend
> ripping to FLAC, which has much wider support than WMA9 lossless.  FLAC is
> royalty-free and is an open format with much wider support.
>
>
>
> By contrast, WMA9 is proprietary and has never been publicly documented by
> Microsoft -- WMA9 Lossless decoders are based on reverse engineering.
> Windows Media Audio is a mess;  see:  http://www.dbpoweramp.com/
> codec-central-windows-media-audio.htm
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>   Fred Maxwell
>   Moderator, Exact Audio Copy Yahoogroup
>
>
>
>
>
> On Jun 11, 2018, at 2:18 PM, [email protected] <mailto:
> [email protected]>  [EAC] <[email protected] <mailto:
> [email protected]> > wrote:
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>
>
>
>
> Hi Mike,
>
> I am setup for external program for compression, but I am using Microsoft
> WMA9 Encoder with bit rate set to Lossless as I want a perfect copy of the
> CD. Program path and additional command-line options are blank. As I said
> in my original post al the tracks from the CD go into the music folder is
> the NAS drive, but not as an album.
>
>
>
> Richard
>
>
>
>
>
>
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> Messages in this topic (10)
> ________________________________________________________________________
> 1b. Re: Playback an album
>     Posted by: "Fred Maxwell" [email protected] fbmaxwell
>     Date: Thu Jun 14, 2018 11:52 am ((PDT))
>
> Hello Richard,
>
> It sounds like your player, like many, won’t assume that a JPEG image in
> the folder is album art.
>
> What you need to do is embed the album art in each FLAC file you rip.  I
> believe that adding this to your FLAC external command line may do the
> trick:
>
> %hascover%--picture="%coverfile%"%hascover%
>
> That tells EAC to embed the album art if it exists.
>
> Regards,
>   Fred Maxwell
>   Moderator, Exact Audio Copy Yahoogroup
>
> > On Jun 14, 2018, at 11:53 AM, 'Richard Heuston'
> [email protected] [EAC] <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hi Fred,
> >
> > Point taken about FLAC.
> >
> > I have been messing around since getting your email below, and feel that
> I still must be getting something very simple wrong.
> >
> > I take it that you have a music collection stored on your PC in a folder
> or in a media program, and when you open this folder to see what you want
> to play, you see albums covers with Album title and Artist, and when
> clicked on show the tracks in the album. If you click on track one your
> music player plays back the album.  I now have achieved doing all of the
> above with the exception of the album cover art work showing. A Jpeg of the
> album cover is in the album folder at the bottom of the tracks list, but
> what use is it if it doesn’t show up on the folder icon? Am I supposed to
> do something with the jpeg or am I not using the correct playback program?
> I’m a long way off getting my 500+ collection onto my NAS drive until I
> sort this out.
> >
> >
> >
> > Richard
> >
> >
> >
> > From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> <
> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
> > Sent: 11 June 2018 11:01 PM
> > To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> > Subject: Re: [EAC] Re: Playback an album
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Hello Richard,
> >
> >
> >
> > Unless you have a very specific need for WMA9 Lossless, I’d recommend
> ripping to FLAC, which has much wider support than WMA9 lossless.  FLAC is
> royalty-free and is an open format with much wider support.
> >
> >
> >
> > By contrast, WMA9 is proprietary and has never been publicly documented
> by Microsoft -- WMA9 Lossless decoders are based on reverse engineering.
> Windows Media Audio is a mess;  see:  http://www.dbpoweramp.com/
> codec-central-windows-media-audio.htm <http://www.dbpoweramp.com/
> codec-central-windows-media-audio.htm>
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> >   Fred Maxwell
> >   Moderator, Exact Audio Copy Yahoogroup
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> On Jun 11, 2018, at 2:18 PM, [email protected] <mailto:
> [email protected]> [EAC] <[email protected] <mailto:
> [email protected]>> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi Mike,
> >>
> >> I am setup for external program for compression, but I am using
> Microsoft WMA9 Encoder with bit rate set to Lossless as I want a perfect
> copy of the CD. Program path and additional command-line options are blank.
> As I said in my original post al the tracks from the CD go into the music
> folder is the NAS drive, but not as an album.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Richard
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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