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In Reply to: Re: Can I ask why you use cue sheets and big wav file? posted by Dawnrazor on March 16, 2007 at 19:08:52:
Thanks for the explanation. Kind of makes sense, but I suspect you are in a fairly unique situation, as you discovered!Incidentally, you don't need to rerip to convert your cue/wav files to flac. There's a program (I think it's called "CUE file splitter" or something) that will read a CUE file and split the big wav file into one file per track. Then you can use something like dbpoweramp to reencode those files into FLAC. And you can add cover art using a program like "Album Cover Art Downloader".
Incidentally, what is the name of that player that you discovered? Sounds interesting.
In terms of defragmentation, it depends on how you use your computer, and how often you defragment. In my case, all my music files are stored on a 1.2TB NAS (along with other files). Since multiple PCs may read or write to the NAS (at the same time), the chances of fragmentation for large files is very high. So far, I've ripped about 700 albums, probably around half my collection.
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Hey Christine,I think you are refering to a program called "Cue Splitter". I have used that and it made individual wavs...that is when I found out the cool program I was using doesn't do wavs. I must say, i never thought of encoding them in to flac. That is a good idea.
The player I am talking about has a trial available at www.mp3toys.net. I hesistate to mention, as the external player support is not yet ready for prime time, but works great if you don't use random. It is cover art based, and album based, but making playlists is super easy.
Also, I think you can help me here. See, the developer has been very responsive to what probably seems like crazy requests (since his market seems to be the mp3 18-25 year old market). The external player support works and i can't seem to make him understand what it would take to make it acceptable (not "perfect). See, he is getting wrapped up on a perfect sync between the players, which is much harder to do than what I am proposing. He has mentioned things like "what happens if the external player is paused", etc. But that kind of sync is not really needed IMHO. Desirable sure, but not necessarily needed.
See, when you select a cd or playlist in this program, it sends all the files to Foobar or winamp, so say the 10 tracks on the cd show up there. Foobar plays these files. So, when you random, the desplay is different than foobar. So in my head atleast, what it needs to do, is just load in ONE song at a time. Everytime it changes songs (wether random or non random) it just sends that song to the external player. So, as long as you don't touch the external player, it will be synced. I think this would be acceptable operation for most people. With your computer knowledge, I am sure you can help him better than I can, or tell me why I am crazy.
Anyhow, try it and you will see what I mean, why I want to use it over win amp and foobar, and why for a non computer person, it is a great solution.
The pc I am talking about is just used for playing wav files, it is not even networked. This is one reason the player is interesting. It doesn't NEED the internet continously. Once it finds the cover art, it saves a copy, and then you are set.
700 is a ton of cds, and my little 200 cd collection seems much more manageable.
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Hey Christine,I downloaded it last night, and after a bit, di get it working. The player sync with winamp or foobar definatley is better than the link I gave you.
But this program is exactly what i don't need. It is really designed for computer people, and not regular joes.
That seems to be an either or, you get something that is easy to use, but no advanced audio support, or something that can do anything if you spend time writing script.
Also, it was very frustrating to use with all the different screens, some of which were hard to get out of, and one skin I downloaded, I never could get out of the program short of ctrl alt delete.
I am sure it is just a "its different" complex, but I never seemed to have the info I wanted on the screen when I needed it, and always had to hunt for it. I don't remember feeling that way when going from my tweaked Foobar to mp3toys. I just down loaded it, set the library locations and external support, and was off. With xlobby, just getting it to go was a challenge, not an imposssible one, but not for my pc illeterate audiophile friends.
Anyhow, I haven't ruled it out, so here are some questions:
How do you get lyric support?
From what i read, it seems that cover art shows up if you put the pictures in the right place. Does xlobby find cover art automatically?
I won't be needing tv or lighting or movies, just music. Is there a skin just for music?
How can i get all the info i need in one screen? I am guessing this can be done if i devote a weekend to it.
I don't doubt that someone like yourself would prefer the freedom of xlobby, and may find mp3toys pedestrian. But for the people I need this to work for, it HAS to be simple.
I don't know the answers to your questions on xlobby, because I haven't tried it myself (I may one day) but many people seem to like it. I imagine it should be fairly configurable.For my own music player, I use Winamp, but I control it via a web browser from a PDA. The user interface is effectively browse and click (over my entire online music collection - 700 CDs, 30-40 DVD-Audios, around 50 LPs digitised, and my own music - stuff that I made myself).
The "PC" is not connected to a monitor, playback status information is displayed on an LCD/VFD 4 line display. I can also control playback via a remote control (play, pause, stop etc.) which is sufficient for playing back CDs.
If you want a music only interface, maybe that's the way to go. Configure a PC to operate exactly like a consumer CD player. No album art, no fancy visualizations, no display.
The PC boots from a Compact Flash memory card (which is configured to be read only via EWF) so it's relatively quick to boot, and read only means it resets back to a known stable configuration on every boot (so no need to worry about viruses etc.). It's also completely fanless and noiseless (no hard disk, no fans, no moving parts).
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