Mounting nrg images and cover art

2013-12-29 18:44:49

Hello group,

I have ripped/imaged around 1000 Cds (*.NRG extension) with Nero
I mount these with Magic ISO and have Win 7 autoplay the CD (image) with Foobar2000 1.3
(The mounting / autoplay of any specific image is via selecting the image and a 1 click only on an icon (with custom parameters) in Total Commander)
I also scanned the cover art and booklets which are in the same directory as the image. (The reason I ripped my Cds like this is that it was the fastest way possible)

How can I get Foobar2000 to display cover art though?
(since there is no way to include the cover art in the *.NRG image which gets mounted.

Also, I noticed recently that once I look up the CD on freedb (and save the playlist, but I think that's not needed) it remembers the playlist forever!
(clever, but where is that stored?)

I would be very grateful if anyone could help me out.
Foobar2000 is outstanding; using it through an irDAC to an ARCAM HiFi and B&W speakers.

Cheers, Roland

Mounting nrg images and cover art

Reply #1 – 2013-12-30 05:57:58

Have you thought about moving away from using a .NRG image and using cue sheet + lossless file (FLAC, Wavpack...)? You will save a considerable amount of hard drive space and then you could have cue sheet + lossless file and album art all stored in a folder. having your music this way will allow you to use Foobar2000s media library as well.

You could mount your .NRG files and then re rip them using either Foobar2000, Exact Audio Copy, CUETools or DBPoweramp as Cue sheet and lossless file to a folder. This process will be very quick, may be 1 minute per disc at most (hard drive speed is the limitation).

One problem with using Nero as the original ripping tool is that you rips might not be clean to begin with. If you use one of the rippers above with your new rips, they will compare your rips against other people to see if the rip is the same, they will also produce a ripping log (Foobar2000 doesn't do this).

EDIT: I don't think DBPoweramp does cue sheet + lossless file ripping

Mounting nrg images and cover art

Reply #2 – 2013-12-30 13:27:28

Thanks, Man_Eating.

You raise some good points, especially about ripping-accuracy.
I'm sure the next stage is mounting the .NRGs and ripping them to FLAC, as you suggest.

It's possible I won't ever bother doing that, though, as I only gain the cover-art displayed in Foobar, really.

Cheers for now, Pando

Mounting nrg images and cover art

Reply #3 – 2013-12-30 13:55:29

it's probably best you don't test your nrg files for accuracy. you'd be severely ****ed off you come to realise they're all junk. they might be fine but it's still a poor choice given all the other limitations and space that they waste. :/

Mounting nrg images and cover art

Reply #4 – 2013-12-30 19:01:43

You miss out on quite a few things.

+Media library (easily browse and search for music)
+Cover art (also browsing music by cover art)
+Replaygain
+Proper tagging support
+Not having to mount your images everytime you want to listen to something new (this is what the media library is for)
+The 100+ GB of savings in hard drive space. Since FLAC is lossless you have perfect audio quality. (e.g My music it works out to be about 293GB in WAV files, when I compress it with the default FLAC compression (-5) i save 102GB in space.)

I'm sure there are others as well.