How can I get MAREO to detect CDs by various artists and adjust the directory structure for the files accordingly?

the issue here is, can EAC pass MAREO, as an argument a various artist flag?

the issue here is, can EAC pass MAREO, as an argument a various artist flag?

Quote from: atulc on 2006-10-06 15:59:00

How can I get MAREO to detect CDs by various artists and adjust the directory structure for the files accordingly?

Apparently MAREO cannot do this (at least that's what I've found).    But REACT can. 

If anyone knows different (re: MAREO) please tell how, because overall MAREO seems more stable than REACT, which seems to crash a lot for no obvious reason (again, at least that's what I've found).

- P

one question, whats your intended normal path/file, and what is your va one?

actually, if it is the same, just pass VA as the artist, and MAREO should work.

If you want to have a diferent scheme, i would have to modify MAREO.

but if i understand you right, you want to have,

artist\album
and
va\album

if the name of the artist is "VA", MAREO would replace [artist] with VA, and it would end like you want.

Or i'm wrong?

For your "modest" needs, you can try using %D, instead of %A, as the cd artist on calling MAREO.
Use: %s %d "%d" "%g" "%t" "%n" %y "%m"
Instead of: %s %d "%a" "%g" "%t" "%n" %y "%m"
...
If there is more need for VA handling, i think i can make MAREO compare %D against %A, and if it does not matches, i can assume a VA album. But i don't think is what you need.

In the field "Additional command line options" you could use replacements for the selectable options :

    %s        Source filename
    %d        Destination filename
    %h...%h  Text "..." only when "High quality" selected
    %l...%l  Text "..." only when "Low quality" selected
    %c...%c  Text "..." only when "CRC checksum" selected
    %r        Bitrate ("32".."320")
    %a        CD artist
    %g        CD title
    %t        Track title
    %y        Year
    %n        Track number
    %m        MP3 music genre
    %o        Original filename (without temporary renaming)
    %e        Comment (as selected in EAC)
    %b        CRC of extracted track
    %f        freedb ID
    %x        Number of tracks on album

On Sat, 07 Oct 2006 17:46:06 -0400, atulc wrote:

>I am new to EAC. I am trying to use EAC together with MAREO plus the
>FLAC and LAME encoders. From EAC, I am invoking MAREO as the external
>compression program using the command line arguments:
>
> mareo.ini %s %d "%a" "%g" "%t" "%n" %y "%m"
>
>Is there a way to pass a command-line argument or flag to indicate to
>MAREO that an album is a "various artists" album? Currently, MAREO has
>no way of knowing this. I have discussed this with the author of MAREO
>and he doesn't know if EAC can pass such a flag/parameter. I want to
>organize all tracks on a various-artists album into a single directory
>called VA\album-title. I need EAC to invoke MAREO in a way that would
>allow MAREO to create such a directory path. Please see the following
>discussion thread for more information.
>
> http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....mp;#entry438658
>
>It appears that REACT, a utility like MAREO but less stable according to
>some, is able to distinguish between single-artist and various-artists
>CDs. REACT is invoked from EAC in pretty much the same way the one
>invokes MAREO (see details at the URL above). Does anyone know how REACT
>accomplishes this?

I believe REACT configures the %D as the first file naming parameter in EAC,
then it parses the %d value passed by EAC for the word "Various" at its
beginning.

--

• Words came back to me - by Sonya Kitchell
• Pure moods IV - by various artists
• Artist's choice - Sheryl Crow - by various artists

• Sonya Kitchell\Words came back to me
• Various\Pure moods IV

• This CD contains four songs by Sheryl Crow and thirteen tracks from other artists that are among the personal favorites of Sheryl Crow. REACT saved Sheryl Crow's four songs in "Various\Artist's choice - Sheryl Crow". However, each of the songs from other artists was stored in the directory "ARTIST\Artist's choice - Sheryl Crow". Examples of ARTIST include Bob Dylan, Carol King, and Aretha Franklin. This violates my basic requirement that files from a physical CD should be stored in the same directory. iTunes handles this gracefully. It stores all songs from this CD in "Compilation\Artist's Choice - Sheryl Crow". I would really like this to be addressed jointly by the authors of EAC, MAREO, and REACT. This should be easy to fix and would make all these tools that much better. I am amazed that no one has pushed hard for this requirement earlier.
• After copying the WAV files generated by EAC to the desination FLAC folders described above, REACT is unable to process WAV to FLAC conversion command. It terminates leaving the WAV files in the destination folders. This is a flaw in the core functionality of REACT. If any REACT developers are following this thread, please address this issue.

so, if %D (not %d) is CD artist, why not use it?

You should post your findings, with your react.ini contents and config file contents, to the main REACT thread.

Personally I think your config needs changing, not REACT, or possibly the freedb entry for the third album was not correct, but until we see the details we can't help.

Edit: Ah, I see you have posted to that thread.  You really need to post details though, or your concerns will, quite rightly, be ignored.

[Settings]
Config=FLAC_MP3
Version=1.0
EAC=C:\Program Files\Exact Audio Copy\EAC.exe
musicdir=C:\Documents and Settings\Atul K Chhabra\My Documents\My Music
encdir=C:\Program Files\Exact Audio Copy\Encoders
LogFile=
CodePage=1252
MinimizeCompressionWindow=1
ProcessPriority=1
TracksHotKey={F4}
TracksHotVal=+{F5}
SaveTracksCuesheets=0
ImageHotKey={F10}
ImageNaming=$artist$ - ($year$) $album$
Sla_Bks_Col_Qst_Bar_Quo_Ast_Lt_Gt=-|-|-||!|'|#|[|]
Debug=0

!Description=Tagged FLAC and mp3 files with RG album and track tags

!destdir1=@musicdir@\FLAC\$cdartist$\($year$) $album$
!dest1=@destdir1@\$track$ - $title$
!Various-dest1=@destdir1@\$track$ - $title$ ($artist$)

!destdir2=@musicdir@\MP3\$cdartist$\($year$) $album$

echo.> "@dest1@.tmp"
@encdir@\Tag.exe --nocheck --ape2 -t "ARTIST=@artist@" -t "ALBUM=@album@" -t "TRACK=@track@" -t "TITLE=@title@" -t "YEAR=@year@" -t "GENRE=@genre@" -t "TOTALTRACKS=@numtracks@" -t "FREEDB=@freedbid@" -t "CRC=@crc@" "@dest1@.tmp"
move "@source@" "@dest1@.wav"

if @islast@==1 (
  move "@eaclog@" "@destdir1@\eaclog.txt"
  move "@trackscuesheet@.[*].cue" "@destdir1@"
  start @encdir@\albumart.exe "@artist@" "@album@" "@destdir1@\cover.jpg"
  cd /d "@destdir1@"
  @encdir@\Glob.exe -v -c @encdir@\flac.exe -f -5 --replay-gain *.wav
  echo @encdir@\Tag.exe --fromfile "%%INPUT_NAME%%.tmp" "%%INPUT_NAME%%.flac" > encode.bat
  echo @encdir@\lame.exe -V5 --vbr-new --scale %%ALBUM_SCALE%% --tc "AG appl:%%ALBUM_GAIN%%,TG:%%TRACK_GAIN%% dB" "%%INPUT_NAME%%.wav" "@destdir2@\%%INPUT_NAME%%.mp3" >> encode.bat
  echo @encdir@\Tag.exe --fromfile "%%INPUT_NAME%%.tmp" "@destdir2@\%%INPUT_NAME%%.mp3" >> encode.bat
  echo del "%%INPUT_NAME%%.wav" "%%INPUT_NAME%%.tmp" >> encode.bat
  @encdir@\WaveGain.exe -a *.wav --exec call encode.bat
  del encode.bat
)

You should post your findings, with your react.ini contents and config file contents, to the main REACT thread.

Here are my config files for REACT. Except for the Config=FLAC_MP3 in react.ini, everything is just as it was after a fresh installation of REACT.

With a proper VA setup the artist can be taken from the track info, as the format is entered as "<artist> / <title>".

Quote

DTITLE: Technically, this may consist of any data, but by convention contains
   the artist and disc title (in that order) separated by a "/" with a
   single space on either side to separate it from the text. There may be
   other "/" characters in the DTITLE, but not with space on both sides,
   as that character sequence is exclusively reserved as delimiter of
   artist and disc title! If the "/" is absent, it is implied that the
   artist and disc title are the same, although in this case the name
   should rather be specified twice, separated by the delimiter.
   If the disc is a sampler containing titles of various artists, the disc
   artist should be set to "Various" (without the quotes).

It's that freeDB entry.

NB: with regard to the space either side, EAC (wrongly?) seems to deal with either a space or no space.  If a space is present it is trimmed.  I suppose it's not so wrong as it has the checkbox double check - so it is expecting a VA format.

I am amazed that no one has pushed hard for this requirement earlier.