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REACT 2 Released

Reply #1550 –
@accurat

... and there is annother problem:

F4 works only properly, if at least the last track is selected. in other cases the batch file stops before post processing and the cover will not be embedded (i hope you are able to understand - my english ist very bad, i'm sorry about this).

are there be a bugfix sometime?

br, martin

REACT 2 Released

Reply #1551 –
Quote from: elroy111 on
XUI is not working under win2k, so i'm using the default cover art downloader and microsoft .net framework 2.2.

I'm sorry but the old cover art downloader is not working anymore, and it has been abandoned. So there will not be any updates to that program. And I see that .NET Framework 3.5 SP1, which is required by XUI, is not supported in win2000. I guess your only options are either to move to WinXP (or newer) and use XUI, or acquire the cover images other way before ripping (you can use the CoverDownloaderLocalPath= setting in INI to use existing artwork).

Quote from: elroy111 on
F4 works only properly, if at least the last track is selected. in other cases the batch file stops before post processing and the cover will not be embedded

Yep, that's the way it should work. Quote from REACT: "REACT is designed to work only with whole album extraction/ripping", so no, it's not a bug, and no, there will not be a change/bugfix to this.

I just noticed that the comment about the post-processing in REACT-track.cfg is rubbish, the current post-processing in default REACT-track.cfg at the moment does only ReplayGain calculations.. I'll fix the comment in the future versions. I.e. your embedded & folder artwork is being added even if the post-processing is not run. But, I suggest that you use REACT as it's meant to be used, for full album ripping.

REACT 2 Released

Reply #1552 –
thanks a lot @akkurat for the quick answer. i can live with it.

1. as long as i'm working with win2k i'm able to download the albumart with "album cover art downloder". i made a test yesterday and it is working satisfactory. but it's a pity for me that i have to migrate to XP only for a little better workflow because i have a 10 years old dell-notebook that works very good with win2k and office-programs and i looked forward to use it as a special ripping mashine for my CDs. i can't do it now because i need a most automatic workflow to save time with the XUI tool.

2. your information about "REACT is designed to work only with whole album extraction/ripping"  is new for me. i'm a DJ and often i need only one or a few tracks for one CD. a additional track-based tool or function like F4 working properly only with 1 oder 2 tracks would be more in my interest, but i can certainly delete the files i do not need after REACTs work is done.

the main thng is that there is now the possibility to bring my music on harddisk with professional high quality and low cost via EAC/REACT. i'm deeply greatful about.

REACT 2 Released

Reply #1553 –
Quote from: elroy111 on
1. as long as i'm working with win2k i'm able to download the albumart with "album cover art downloder"

I tried that app years ago (made by a Finnish fellow), it was quite ok, though it crashed a LOT back then. I see that it was last updated back in August 2008. And it has only 3 IMHO poor sources, but if you're not hell-bent on getting big and very good cover images, maybe it's enough for you.

Quote from: elroy111 on
2. your information about "REACT is designed to work only with whole album extraction/ripping"  is new for me.
...
a additional track-based tool or function like F4 working properly only with 1 oder 2 tracks would be more in my interest, but i can certainly delete the files i do not need after REACTs work is done.

Are you a new REACT user? Then you obviously missed it in the "introduction" text when you read the REACT wiki page.

You can use REACT without ripping all the tracks if you wish, but then you'd miss out the ReplayGain stuff made in the post-processing (if that matters).. + the temporary files are not deleted at the end. Note though that in future versions of my mod there will be more things in the post-processing section.

BTW. are you sure that REACT is what you need? I mean if the cover art stuff isn't working out for you and you obviously are not interested in making backup copies of your albums (edit: nor audio files in different formats?), then why use REACT in the first place? Just a thought.

REACT 2 Released

Reply #1554 –
Quote from: Akkurat on
Quote from: elroy111 on
1. as long as i'm working with win2k i'm able to download the albumart with "album cover art downloder"

...it has only 3 IMHO poor sources, but if you're not hell-bent on getting big and very good cover images, maybe it's enough for you.

yes, for the next 2-3 weeks. meanwhile i'm shure using XUI under XP, as soon as my xp-virtual mashine runs and i have time to install EAC/REACT/XUI on this mashine.

Quote from: Akkurat on
Are you a new REACT user? ... BTW. are you sure that REACT is what you need? I mean if the cover art stuff isn't working out for you and you obviously are not interested in making backup copies of your albums (edit: nor audio files in different formats?), then why use REACT in the first place? Just a thought.

yes, i use EAC/REACT since 4 days and nights, all the stuff as to rip and tag music is completely new for me and my workflow is aborning. at this time i'm NOT shure that REACT is what i need, but my CD-collection comprised 50% CDs that i want to backup in flac-images with cuesheets AND make audio files from it in itunes-aac, lame-mp3 or both in high quality *). cover art in the files would be fine, but that´s not the first intention. the three things why i'm looking for more possibilities to rip apart itunes, nero etc. is the "akkurat" and uppermost quality on one hand, on the other is a good time-saving workflow to make many steps automaticly and all that things without paying a lot of money 

from the other 50% of my CDs i need only 1, 2 or 3 tracks and i'm not interested in backup the whole CDs. but i have more than 1.000 CDs, so that it is no question to make it with a time-saving workflow.

would you recommend REACT for my intentions? other idea?

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*) now i'm not shure, what is the best compressed format for me, i will try it out in the next few weeks. all my friends and so as well i uses itunes for private purposes and native instruments traktor scratch pro for playing music to the crowds. traktor is able to use both aac without drm, mp3 and flac, itunes unfortunately no flac. my main intention is a way to play my music all over the world without great circumstands (notebook and tagged music files) and in highest possible music quality, not the ultimatest small-sized file. my subjective impression as a result of some trials (aac-options = default how in the INI-file, mp3 with -V2, studio-headphone) is, that mp3 sounds a little bit personalble in my ears. in forums and magazines people tells the opposite. => do you have a recommendation for me?

REACT 2 Released

Reply #1555 –
Quote from: elroy111 on
would you recommend REACT for my intentions?

YES. Absolutely. With over 1000 CD's and about 50% of them to archive (+to lossy format), I think that REACT will serve you fine. You've a big job ahead, happy REACTing!

Quote from: elroy111 on
do you have a recommendation for me?

No, I'm using only FLAC at the moment and since it's lossless I don't have to bother with the quality/compression levels/etc., sorry. But I guess that you can't go wrong with FLAC and Mp3, lossless & lossy, both have good hardware & software support. And in case you need the music in another lossy format at some point later, you've the lossless copy for transcoding, no need to rip the CD's again.

If you compare encoded music with different options, you might like to check this out: What is a blind ABX test ?.

REACT 2 Released

Reply #1556 –
Quote from: Akkurat on
... I think that REACT will serve you fine. You've a big job ahead, happy REACTing!

yes, definitly it will be a BIG job.

thnks for your time. perhaps we will meet here again later.
with kind regards
martin.

REACT 2 Released

Reply #1557 –
Hiya, with the latest mod, is there still a restriction on which version of EAC I should use.  Read about it further back but I'm not sure

REACT 2 Released

Reply #1558 –
No. My latest mod supports EAC up to the latest version 0.99 prebeta 5.

REACT 2 Released

Reply #1559 –
Thanks Akkurat.  I'd seen the old warnings, but couldn't confirm the "all clear"

Cheers again
 

REACT 2 Released

Reply #1560 –
Hi Akkurat
Do you know if it would be possible to run the react batch file on an existing flac image file. At some point in the future I would like to recreate both my flac tracks and mp3 tracks using an updated encoder and I don't want to have to go via EAC again since the lossless image is already on the hard disk.

Rgds

REACT 2 Released

Reply #1561 –
For somewhat reason my REACT-Installation latterly reacts in the following way: I press F10 or F4, the wav, cue-sheet and log will be created, and then: nothing. I get the message from EAC like: "passing to external compressor", but no DOS-Box will be opened. I already did an Ctrl-F2 and tried a totally new installation, but the behaviour didn't change! The external compressor won't be started. I can not remember to have changed anything - well I must have changed something, but don't know what. Aren't  there normally created batch-Files in my output-directory? This is not the case. Any hints appreciated!

REACT 2 Released

Reply #1562 –
Quote from: dag0 on
For somewhat reason my REACT-Installation latterly reacts in the following way: I press F10 or F4, the wav, cue-sheet and log will be created, and then: nothing.


Problem resolved by installing newest akkurat mod! What ever went wrong there...

REACT 2 Released

Reply #1563 –
Sorry for the late answer. Holiday season.

Quote from: gsa999 on
Do you know if it would be possible to run the react batch file on an existing flac image file. At some point in the future I would like to recreate both my flac tracks and mp3 tracks using an updated encoder and I don't want to have to go via EAC again since the lossless image is already on the hard disk.
No. Not from FLAC file directly. And no, I'm not warming up to the idea of making REACT work as an "all-around" converting tool. REACT has a focus on ripping and it's complicated enough tool already.

However, there's a semi-hidden "Start From Cuesheet" feature; quote from 2.0.ssb16g changelog: "You can now process an existing wav/cue/log(/jpg) file-set by passing the full cuesheet path to REACT as a single parameter. This will treat the files as if they had just been created by EAC as per normal execution."

Some things to consider using this feature (could be more):

1) Currently there's 2 bugs in this feature:
1a) A small typo in the code which puts an extra space at the start of the GENRE value. (will be fixed in the next release)
1b) A major design flaw/bug which makes additional metadata to fail.. REACT loads metadata of last ripped album from meta.ini! I.e. all additional metadata present in the cuesheet of your original rip is lost not transferred to new rip! This could affect directory structure and your tags. (I've studied the code and I've a very rough pseudo-code solution ready.. most probably is fixed too in the next release)
2) No additional cuesheets for track files (if you need those at all). Can be copied from the original folders.
3) Remember that the wav/cue/log/cover files are deleted when REACT finishes.
4) If you only want FLAC & Mp3 tracks, you have to edit the INI.

I personally would use a batch script or something like that, IF I'm forced to do the encoding again with an updated version. Otherwise I wouldn't bother at all with re-encoding if everything works.

You'll be safe using these file names when starting the "Start From Cuesheet" feature:
   cover: <album>.<imageExtension>
   cue: <INI ImageNaming>.cue ("INI ImageNaming" default: $artist$ - [$year$] $album$.. if various artists album, replace the $artist$ with the "INI VA")
   log: <INI ImageNaming>.log
   wav: <INI ImageNaming>.wav

And fire up the feature like this: "C:\Program Files\REACT2\REACT.exe" "<PATH TO THE FILE>\<INI ImageNaming>.cue" (you have to use the FULL path to the cuesheet file... I learned that the hard way; I spent couple of hours hunting down a bug which was not there. I even started to worry that the newer AutoIt version I use compared to Synthetic Soul's mod, had broken one function in AutoIt language. RTFM (ssmod) carefully was the solution.    )

HTH

REACT 2 Released

Reply #1564 –
Quote from: dag0 on
Problem resolved by installing newest akkurat mod! What ever went wrong there...

Glad to hear that you got it to work. You probably upgraded to EAC 0.99pb5 which is only supported by my latest mod.

REACT 2 Released

Reply #1565 –
Right, trying REACT with wine on Ubuntu 9.04.

Linux already uses Ctrl-F2 (to change to desktop 2).  So I cannot get EAC to configure for REACT.  Is there a way to change this?

Also Alt-F5 does not work to get the Additional Meta Data dialogue

REACT 2 Released

Reply #1566 –
Hi there, I've read about REACT years ago I think, and now I am actually using it to copy audioCDs in FLAC (for backup, home audio, mp3player), OGG (for portable, mp3player), AAC (for portable e.g. iPod, mobile phone).

All is working well but I do have 2 questions:

1
The default AAC setting in the REACT.ini file doesn't tag the AAC (m4a) files! I am using Nero AAC and the tag executable is present in the TOOLS folder.
I assume I have to edit the AAC setting. Is that correct? Or is the post processing (tagging) not configured in this INI? Because OGG and FLAC do get tagged but also do not have the tag setting in REACT.INI.

So how do I enable tagging for AAC?

2
Currently, in my outputfolder (D:\Music\Albums) there are 3 folders created: FLAC, OGG, AAC. And all of my cds are ripped to those folders.
For archiving purposes, I would like to see it the other way: in D:\Music I simply want 1 folder for each album (ALBUM ARTIST - ALBUM TITLE) and 3 subfolders (FLAC, OGG, AAC) containing the tracks.
Would this be possible by editing one of the config files?

REACT 2 Released

Reply #1567 –
Quote from: lipidicman on
Linux already uses Ctrl-F2 (to change to desktop 2).  So I cannot get EAC to configure for REACT. Is there a way to change this?
Change the shortcut used in REACT? No.

1) Ask for help: Ubuntu Forums (e.g. Is it possible to assign a particular key combo to perform an action on an explicit window? Or rather: is it possible to exclude system wide shortcuts for a specific window/application?)
2) Try this (I'm not a linux expert, not even a noob, not using any distro, so it might not work for REACT): Assign Custom Shortcut Keys on Ubuntu Linux
3) Move the INI file out of the REACT folder and start REACT, this will cause the config to start. After that, move the original INI back.

Quote from: lipidicman on
Also Alt-F5 does not work to get the Additional Meta Data dialogue
One solution is to put the "OpenAddMetaDataDiag" on in INI.

P.S. Is REACT working under wine? Have you tested thoroughly?

REACT 2 Released

Reply #1568 –
Quote from: zilexa on
So how do I enable tagging for AAC?

It should be working. I just tested (for the first time ever) and it works. Dropped neroAacEnc.exe (v1.3.3.0) to TOOLS folder and ran track rip in debug mode. No errors with AtomicParsley.exe (does the tagging). Then listened the files in Winamp. All tags are shown properly (inc. cover image). Tried Mp3tag, it shows only cover image in the "tag panel" and in "Extended tags" dialog. Dunno why it doesn't show all tags properly.

Can you give more information what doesn't seem to work for you?

Quote from: zilexa on
I simply want 1 folder for each album (ALBUM ARTIST - ALBUM TITLE) and 3 subfolders (FLAC, OGG, AAC) containing the tracks.

Have you checked the INI "TrackDir_*" settings? Here's an example for AAC tracks:

Code: [Select]
TrackDir_AAC=@OutRoot@\$cdartist$ - $album$\AAC

But I suggest the following:
Code: [Select]
TrackDir_AAC=@OutRoot@\$cdartist$\[$year$] $album$\AAC

This way your root folder doesn't get overloaded with folders. Added year token so that the albums are sorted "properly".

REACT 2 Released

Reply #1569 –
AAC tags are indeed added properly!
My default musicplayer (besides mediaportal) is AIMP2. It seems AIMP doesn't read the AAC tags. Just tested with Winamp and the tags are there.

Thanks for the suggestions for the folder parameters!

I want my computer to play the flac files and not add ogg/aac/mp3 versions to the music database, so I've chosen to put FLAC files in Music\Albums and lossy versions in Music\Albums\PORTABLE\AAC and Music\Albums\PORTABLE\OGG and Music\Albums\PORTABLE\MP3. The Portable folder is excluded in my mediaplayers databases.

REACT 2 Released

Reply #1570 –
More on AtomicParsley..

Now I remember that there has been talk about this earlier. Check out various posts:

- NeroAacTag to replace AtomicParsley
- tag reading issues, post #1383-1389
- Atomic Parsley writes "broken" Nero tags aswell as Apple tags?

And finally my last post about the subject (got no answers):

Quote from: Akkurat on
Quote from: Middy on
From what I understand, Atomic Parsley writes "broken" Nero tags aswell as Apple tags. Foobar reads the bad Nero tags, and doesn't fall back on the Apple tags as it already has read the Nero tags. There apparently is a "--foobar2000Enema" which fixes this, haven't tried it yet.

I quickly read the threads and got the same impression.. thanks for the links. But, I still don't understand the whole situation.

1) Why was the AP chosen to REACT as a tool?
1.1) Only (aac) tool to be freely distributed with REACT?
1.2) Only (free) tool to tag iTunes tags?
2) What exactly does the "--foobar2000Enema" switch do? Does it remove iTunes tags? I.e. is it safe to use? Should this be used in REACT default configs?
3) Would the NeroAacTag be enough for all aac tagging needs? I.e. does it produce tags which would work in iTunes & fb2k & Winamp & the rest?

I hope that anybody who knows the technical details of this would speak out. Otherwise, I can't make a rational decision to amend the REACT configs.. that is, if the current situation is not good and configs should be amended.

If somebody has something to add to this, please speak out. Thank you.

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Reply #1571 –
Hmm ok maybe I could try create tags with NeroAacTag and see if AIMP2 shows them... but I think its a AIMP bug.
I dont have an iPod myself so can't test on an ipod.

I do have one final question.

The track filenames look like this:

01 - [tracktitle].ogg

I do not want the [ and the ].
But when I check the ini file, I don't understand why [] is added!

Code: [Select]
[UserOutputNames]
OutRoot=@mymusic@
ImageDir_Flac=@OutRoot@\Albums\FLAC-images\$cdartist$
ImageDir_Wavpack=@OutRoot@\Albums\WV-images\$cdartist$
ImageDir_MP3=@OutRoot@\Albums\MP3-images\$cdartist$
ImageDir_Tak=@OutRoot@\Albums\TAK-images\$cdartist$
TrackDir_Flac=@OutRoot@\Albums\$cdartist$ - $album$
TrackDir_Wavpack=@OutRoot@\Albums\$cdartist$ - $album$
TrackDir_MP3=@OutRoot@\Albums\!Portable\MP3\$cdartist$ - $album$
TrackDir_AAC=@OutRoot@\Albums\!Portable\AAC\$cdartist$ - $album$
TrackDir_OGG=@OutRoot@\Albums\!Portable\OGG\$cdartist$ - $album$
TrackDir_Tak=@OutRoot@\Albums\!Portable\TAK\$cdartist$ - $album$
TrackName_SA=$track$ - $title$
TrackName_VA=$track$ - $title$ [$artist$]
TrackName_SA_acdir=$n - $~t
TrackName_VA_acdir=$n - $~t [$~a]

Only $artist$ and $~a have [ and ]. Not title! So why does title have []? BTW I only tested with Various Artist albums.

REACT 2 Released

Reply #1572 –
Ensure that you are using proper VA track format in EAC.

Quote
When submitting a sampler or compilation, you should include the track-artist in the track-name, using the syntax "artist / track-title" and set the CD-artist to "Various"
I'm on a horse.

REACT 2 Released

Reply #1573 –
Well I can hardly make a mistake there, I use the checkbox "Various artist", enter a CD title manually and enter every track title manually (because the cd wasn't in the freedb database).

REACT 2 Released

Reply #1574 –
Quote from: zilexa on
I could try create tags with NeroAacTag and see if AIMP2 shows them... but I think its a AIMP bug.

Using the NeroAacTag for tagging probably shows the tags in AIMP, but it's not AIMP bug, I think the AAC tagging situation is screwed, i.e. no clear specs and different apps use different "methods" for tagging(?).

I'm going to spend the rest of the week in our cottage, I've to paint our new shithouse (outside WC).  So, I'm not listening to your REACT worries this week. Take care.