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Questions / FLAC profiles silly questionning

« on: June 11, 2015, 11:43:37 AM »

Hello,

I wanted to ask the reason for having an "archive" profile
I mean the only difference between the two profiles is that the "portable" profile has a compression level of 8
whereas the archive profile has a compression level of 0

given that a standard song takes about 20s to encode and a few minutes to rip, the encoding of the previous song is generally finished around 30~40% of the ripping of the next at compression level 8

given that FLAC is by essence lossless so whatever compression level only changes the size & the time to encode

given that even if there was no ripping but just encoding, encoding a whole library of 5000 songs would probably take  a single day (5000 x20s = about 28 Hours)

I don't see the reason for any other profile than maximum compression level, + the names are a bit misleading in my humble opinion.
For me, "archive" means something you're gonna store for a long time so a huge compression level would actually makes sense to me
also when talking about zip or rar files & the like those are often called "archived files"
and in winrar no compression is actually called : "Store"

Thoughts ?

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Questions / Re: CD Ripping: Error: Not all tracks successfully verified - you can encode...

« on: June 11, 2015, 09:15:21 AM »

2 things:
-1 I don't know why it's grayed out. try to restart the software or your whole computer ?
-2 I doubt if it failed once, it will work just by retrying
music bee seems to be pretty thorough when using secure ripping. (it retries on its own)

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Questions / Re: Naming Template issues (new user)

« on: June 10, 2015, 11:17:48 PM »

working
thanks

makes me wish there was some sort of immediate verification - validation from music bee  (like showing you the result with preset example tags )

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Questions / Re: Naming Template issues (new user)

« on: June 10, 2015, 03:56:11 PM »

still the same issue.   
in the meantime, I settled for
<Album Artist>)\<Album> - <Year(yyyy)>\<Disc-Track#>-<Title>

and this works even if it's not what I wanted to do

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Questions / Re: Naming Template issues (new user)

« on: June 10, 2015, 02:04:40 PM »

thanks for the simplification.
does the same thing however

even the filename is named : Disc-Track# - Title.flac

though the file has the correct tags (artist, track title & the like ...) just the filename & path are "wrong"

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Questions / [Solved]Naming Template issues (new user)

« on: June 10, 2015, 12:25:34 PM »

hello
I'm very new to musicbee and trying to tailor it to my wants & needs
currently trying to replace cdex & get a specific folder structure
 I'm trying to put something that will put all soundtracks in a specific folder without artist folder
and all others in their folder with artist

 file naming when ripping each track as a separate file :
$If(<Genre>=Soundtrack,Soundtrack\<Album>" - "<Year(yyyy)>,<Album Artist>\<Album>" - "<Year(YYYY)>)\<Disc-Track#>"-"<Title>

however it doesn't work at all, it will create folder named : $If(<Genre>=Soundtrack,Soundtrack ... and so on
instead of say :
Soundtrack\Terminator - 1984\01-The Terminator Theme.FLAC

so I must be doing something wrong, I tried to read the naming conventions & all, but so far couldn't really figure it out.