EAC Not Creating Subfolders For Rips
Reply #7 – 2012-04-25 21:21:12
Please note that the forum has a dedicated subsection for all topics related to CDs, to which I have moved this thread from General Audio.a various artists compilation CD [. . .] I wonder if either of the placeholder strings mentioned should have some placeholder for track artist(s) added? If so, where would you place them if it was your choice? This more applies to the various artist CDs because I noticed the files EAC created did not mention the track artist . In cases where the artist and title are (or must be) presented together, a commonly used format is to separate the two with a spaced hyphen: Artist Here - Title Here . Although I am wont to wince at the sight of a hyphen being used as if it were a dash, I suppose its convenience and potential compatibility make it a fair choice. So, you could incorporate something like that into your current string. My suggestion for this format would be something like this: Music\Compilations, Various Artists, or Whatever\%albumtitle%\%tracknr%. %artist% - %title% Note that I prefer to group compilations in a folder of their own, prefer two-digit track-numbers for the sake of sorting (I know Windows can work around this, with whatever success, but not all other clients can), and have never decided upon a scheme of separators (dots, hyphens, dashes, etc. ) that I really like; your opinions may vary!Would it be more useful when tagging things later since programmes like Mp3tag have a file to tag button that works pretty good. Are you ripping to WAV or some other format that does not support tags (at least in common usage) or planning to have your tags messed up at some later juncture? If not, this is not something you need to think about. But if so, I suppose that yes, you can hardly lose by including more information rather than less. However, then I could ask whether you want to further populate your file-names with any other information such as the year, which I would include as Artist\[year] Album ; the comment, which I (predominantly in the past tense) use for the catalogue-number from the spine; etc. Not that any of this is a bad idea, but you probably want to avoid having to worry about it if you can!