How to make the library file music by artist and album

[PhillJones]

I'm ripping music to .ape format first by using exact audio copy to get to wav, I rip to /<artist>/<album>/<track number>-<track name>.wav and then use monkey's audio to convert to ape, using monkey's auto ID tag creation based on the directory structure and filename. I've checked using monkey's tag edit software and the artist, album and track number/name info is in place.

I'm using the winamp plugin and can play back the music via sage but they only appear in the list of tracks menu, ie they're not filed by artist and album.

How do I make sage recognize the tracks as belonging to an album and artist? There is no album art at the minute. I'm not sure why EAC doesn't automatically take care of this, is this the problem? Does sage refuse top catogorize albums that don't have album art? If so how do go about putiing in album art?

Any help greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
Phill

[gplasky]

Sage will read the mp3 IDv3 tags but it's not going to read the ape tags. As far as I know.

Gerry

[PhillJones]

Originally Posted by gplasky

Sage will read the mp3 IDv3 tags but it's not going to read the ape tags. As far as I know.

Gerry

Does this mean that despite the Winamp plugin, sage effectively doesn't support other music formats than mp3?

Is there a way arround this?

[gplasky]

Depends what you mean by support. It will play other formats and it has support for some of the other format tags but I don't think it does for ape.

Gerry

[PhillJones]

Originally Posted by gplasky

Depends what you mean by support. It will play other formats and it has support for some of the other format tags but I don't think it does for ape.

Gerry

What I mean by support is that it can play the files and file them according to artist and album so that I can access them through the media center music library.

If there is a way to tell sage that these files are an album of this name and such and such artist then that would be fine. If it could use the directory structure to work it out, that would also work fine, if I have to use a different lossless format, that would likewise be fine.

So all I'm really asking is; how do I use sage media center to build a losslessly compressed music library?

Cheers,
Phill

[mlbdude]

The default UI does not do any of that. Some of the other UI's do support file system categorization like SageMC. Reading the tags is part of the core product though so no other UI will allow this yet.

[PhillJones]

Originally Posted by mlbdude

The default UI does not do any of that. Some of the other UI's do support file system categorization like SageMC. Reading the tags is part of the core product though so no other UI will allow this yet.

Oh right, so let me see if I have the right idea. I'm still trying to assess my options.

I could replace the UI with say, SageMC16x9 which would catogorize files according to their directory structure rather than reading ID tags.

Alternatively, I could select a filetype that sage supports the ID tags for out of the box.

In the second option, which if any lossless filetypes can sage read the ID tags for?

[mlbdude]

Originally Posted by PhillJones

Oh right, so let me see if I have the right idea. I'm still trying to assess my options.

I could replace the UI with say, SageMC16x9 which would catogorize files according to their directory structure rather than reading ID tags.

Alternatively, I could select a filetype that sage supports the ID tags for out of the box.

In the second option, which if any lossless filetypes can sage read the ID tags for?

I think only WMA lossless is supported.

[johnnytyler]

Originally Posted by PhillJones

I'm ripping music to .ape format first by using exact audio copy to get to wav, I rip to /<artist>/<album>/<track number>-<track name>.wav and then use monkey's audio to convert to ape, using monkey's auto ID tag creation based on the directory structure and filename. I've checked using monkey's tag edit software and the artist, album and track number/name info is in place.

I'm using the winamp plugin and can play back the music via sage but they only appear in the list of tracks menu, ie they're not filed by artist and album.

How do I make sage recognize the tracks as belonging to an album and artist? There is no album art at the minute. I'm not sure why EAC doesn't automatically take care of this, is this the problem? Does sage refuse top catogorize albums that don't have album art? If so how do go about putiing in album art?

Any help greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
Phill

Take a look at this thread, should work for APE, works for FLAC, essentially deletes vorbis and makes ID3 tags for Sage, if delete vorbis may not work with other software.

http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/show...=14403&page=15

[PhillJones]

That worked like charm,

Thanks johnnytyler

[johnnytyler]

Originally Posted by PhillJones

That worked like charm,

Thanks johnnytyler

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