The songs in my music Library are all .wav files (yes this takes up a lot of space) and the artist/song/album info for these files are all dual encoded with .rif meta data. Anyone klnow How I can rip to MP3 without losing this info?
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I need a dual decorder/ecoder/ripper
- Thread starter hungryhawk
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Thanks. I think that is a great converter but nfotunatley It doesn't work for this application. No soup for me.
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You might want to try Switch from NCH Swift Sound.
http://www.nch.com.au/switch/index.html
It's a free audio file converter that handles more file types, and does batch conversions quickly and easily. I don't know if it will also convert the metadata.
There is also a paid version that has more features and additional formats.
You might want to try Switch from NCH Swift Sound.
http://www.nch.com.au/switch/index.html
It's a free audio file converter that handles more file types, and does batch conversions quickly and easily. I don't know if it will also convert the metadata.
There is also a paid version that has more features and additional formats.
Hey Sir. Nice ripper indeed. Unfortunatley It does not work for this application. Ugh. No soup for me again... Time to call P.F Bouchaard (the guy who found the rosetta stone....)
Cheers,
-J
Cheers,
-J
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Have you tried checking the website http://www.xilisoft.com ? You'll find many
applications for Audio and Video (converters and rippers). I think you may find
something you can use. Only downside, these are not "free" products.
applications for Audio and Video (converters and rippers). I think you may find
something you can use. Only downside, these are not "free" products.
Well, it's been more than a week now searching for my "golden" ripper/converter/encoder/decoder. I've tried many of your suggestions (also had been posting at Craigslist and other Various websites) and while I'm not fortunate enough to be able to rip my music library to mp3 (won't the musicians be happy about this) I am greatful for your suggestions. I tried nearly a dozen different programs and was really impressed with some of the interfaces and support services, so thanks. This is always a fun ride.
BTW - Over the years I have used several programs to organize and sort my music library and I'm not sure if I had previously been open about my current music library software designer (knowing that my flippant fingers can often type faster than my tactful mind I wil omit this info so as not to mar the reputation of these folks) but for those who are interested in a quality product that allows for easy organizing/encoding/decodig/ripping and burning, let me simply reccomend the AudioVault line of Software products
BTW - Over the years I have used several programs to organize and sort my music library and I'm not sure if I had previously been open about my current music library software designer (knowing that my flippant fingers can often type faster than my tactful mind I wil omit this info so as not to mar the reputation of these folks) but for those who are interested in a quality product that allows for easy organizing/encoding/decodig/ripping and burning, let me simply reccomend the AudioVault line of Software products
How many tunes are you talking about ripping and converting? This may be beyond my meager programming skills but I want to take a quick look at what is involved in grabbing the information in the wave file. I think the bigger challenge would be stuffing it into the resulting file.
Is your project big enough to justify spending a little time trying to figure this out?
Has anyone else wished they had such a tool?
I'm thinking the slick thing to do is use one of the tools that others have suggested to do the actual file conversion. Then have a stand alone program the "fetches" the info from the wave file, reformats it as necessary, and then stuffs it into the mp3 file. This would be a separate step from the audio conversion step.
Is your project big enough to justify spending a little time trying to figure this out?
Has anyone else wished they had such a tool?
I'm thinking the slick thing to do is use one of the tools that others have suggested to do the actual file conversion. Then have a stand alone program the "fetches" the info from the wave file, reformats it as necessary, and then stuffs it into the mp3 file. This would be a separate step from the audio conversion step.
Giddyup Cowboy.
Is anyone else interested in this to make it worth Cowboys time?
This actually sounds like a great idea but my project is big (several thousand songs) and I don't have any (let alone meager) programming skills . Obviously we know that batch converting .wavs is easy but if you think you could "stuff" the proprietary data back into it an mp3 I would happliy send you a sample file.
Sheesh, there might even be some money to be made off this b'cause after my last conversation with the people at SS I got the impression that they were fed up with anwering "sorry" to custmors who were experiencing this dilema.
Is anyone else interested in this to make it worth Cowboys time?
This actually sounds like a great idea but my project is big (several thousand songs) and I don't have any (let alone meager) programming skills . Obviously we know that batch converting .wavs is easy but if you think you could "stuff" the proprietary data back into it an mp3 I would happliy send you a sample file.
Sheesh, there might even be some money to be made off this b'cause after my last conversation with the people at SS I got the impression that they were fed up with anwering "sorry" to custmors who were experiencing this dilema.
How about this? Sound Forge has a nice batch converter. That and a minimum wage data entry person could do the trick for you.
Just a thought.
Just a thought.
Re: I need a dual decorder/encoder/ripper
Hey there's an idea. I may actually end up doing that. I figure it would take about a week to convert all the songs and then tag them. With Temp Agency Fees and Wages it'll add up to quite a few bucks (or at least more than simply buying a $50 batch converter) but clearly finding that converter isn't all that simple.
Hey there's an idea. I may actually end up doing that. I figure it would take about a week to convert all the songs and then tag them. With Temp Agency Fees and Wages it'll add up to quite a few bucks (or at least more than simply buying a $50 batch converter) but clearly finding that converter isn't all that simple.
Re: I need a dual decoder/ecoder/ripper
Hey Cowboy do you have an email where I can send a test file?
-J
Hey Cowboy do you have an email where I can send a test file?
-J
Hungryhawk: this project may be bigger than I am but I would like to take a look at the possibilities.
can you send me one mp3 file that has the info in it the way you want it?
<[email protected]>
can you send me one mp3 file that has the info in it the way you want it?
<[email protected]>
:-[ :-\ Well, now my email doesn't seem to want to work. I'll have to find an ftp site. More soon Cowboy, Thanks again for the offer.-J
Hungryhawk: I have been looking at this project a bit and I have some questions. A lot of the programs available assume one simply wants artist, title, album name and maybe track number.
If you are wanting to convert these .wav files to .mp3 for use in a broadcast environment (rather than just for personal use and storage) then the question may be: what is the tag format of the playback equipment you are going to use? Is there one standard format in use by all significant broadcast systems, or does everybody have their own proprietary format for the data.
Are you simply looking at the info that a programmer is interested in.... the artist, the title, etc. or do you also have information useful to accounting and other people in the organization? In order to computerize the process of puting out invoices and affidavits if necessary, do some program elements carry some kind of serial number to track what sound actually went out at a given time? Does music simply carry some generic code like "888888" to tell the front office that this was a music element and may be skipped?
Are you currently using some mp3 files in the system? Does your system have the ability to read the tag from an mp3 file and capture everything that is in the tag and put that info where it needs to be?
<[email protected]>
I would welcome some sample files from other folk also.
If you are wanting to convert these .wav files to .mp3 for use in a broadcast environment (rather than just for personal use and storage) then the question may be: what is the tag format of the playback equipment you are going to use? Is there one standard format in use by all significant broadcast systems, or does everybody have their own proprietary format for the data.
Are you simply looking at the info that a programmer is interested in.... the artist, the title, etc. or do you also have information useful to accounting and other people in the organization? In order to computerize the process of puting out invoices and affidavits if necessary, do some program elements carry some kind of serial number to track what sound actually went out at a given time? Does music simply carry some generic code like "888888" to tell the front office that this was a music element and may be skipped?
Are you currently using some mp3 files in the system? Does your system have the ability to read the tag from an mp3 file and capture everything that is in the tag and put that info where it needs to be?
<[email protected]>
I would welcome some sample files from other folk also.
Good questions Cowboy. I have called the software support line a few times with this and they are moderatley helpful. First of all it should be said that the software support people are not the programming people and so they don't have all the programming information. But what I did find is, yes, there is some additional proprietary information stored in the systems PCM Wav file. Some of this info is the text data that I am looking to "cram" onto the mp3 (I believe rif format) and some of it is other audio playback information (end tones for automation, playback volumes, kill date). The serial number is used to create a seperate air log and so this shouldn't be a concern for the re-encoding that I need to do.
I have uploaded file SP5000 to yousendit.com and sent you the login info via email.
Clearly I am also prepared to hire a temp to come in for a week of data entry.
HA!
-J
I have uploaded file SP5000 to yousendit.com and sent you the login info via email.
Clearly I am also prepared to hire a temp to come in for a week of data entry.
HA!
-J
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