> > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Gilles Dartiguelongue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > afaik, rhythmbox gets its data from musicbrainz which is a > coherent/consistent/user reviewed database. If your CD is badly > recognised I suggest you subscribe there and start editing.
Okay, that's another CD database, one that I wasn't previously aware of. I'm already familiar with FreeDB and CDDB/Gracenote. Some things to consider, though, is that the CD-text can repeat (it's only an eight-digit Hex number, IIRC), causing discs with widely differing content showing up in each other's content/song listing. This isn't a bug within Musicbrainz, FreeDB, CDDB/Gracenote or any other disc indexing repository, it's just the reality of CD indexing. What I'm asking for (still) is that when there are multiple possible listings for a CD-text, I would like to have a choice of which content list to use (or choose none at all). Since you brought it up, most CD ripping software I've used in the past allows me to create a content listing for a disc, and upload that list directly to a disc indexing repository. I don't think it should be necessary for me to subscribe to Musicbrainz, (re)enter the content list, and hope that Rhythmbox picks it up next time I insert the disc. > 2. Easily select bitrate. I appreciate that you support multiple > > file types, but I like to rip audiobooks at a different bitrate than > > music. > > that can be changed in preferences. Yes, I know about Preferences. I refer to the first word I used in the request: Easily. Like from a drop-down list in the main interface. Preferences can still be used to edit the list. > 3. Easily select the folder hierarchy. I like to save differently > > depending on the type of CD I'm ripping. For example, I like to > > bundle Audiobooks, group artists, and list compilation CDs by album > > title. > > I'm sure multiple library's would help here. In the meantime I guess > there is nothing much to do but to use an external ripper. Soundjuicer > which is the default gnome ripper does a good job when you're doing > things outside of rhythmbox. External ripper... interesting. Kind of defeats using Rhythmbox at all, doesn't it? Ubuntu 8.04 installs Rhythmbox by default. I've used SoundJuicer and Grip. I was hoping for better. From: "Joel Dimbernat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Maybe it could use profiles. I explain: > In the preferences window, you define encoding bitrate and folder for music > and for audiobooks. > When you put the cd in and choose to rip it, you're asked if it's an > audiobook or music, and rhythmbox encodes it as its best. > > Maybe even rhythmbox can guess whether it's an audiobook or an album by > itself. I dunno much about audio books, but I guess it's single track so we > could assume that single track cds are audiobooks. It's maybe in the tags > that you get from musicbrainz. > I'm familiar with Preferences (as indicated above). I'd still like a simple/easy way to select bitrate, etc. Maybe a Profiles configuration within Preferences (bitrate, folder hierarchy, filetype, etc.), and a drop-down list from the main interface to choose a Profile... What you're suggesting sounds nice, but way beyond my programming skills. That's why I brought this to the forum in the first place. Michael .
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