[ale] CD ripping and maintaining album and track number

[pete.hardie at gmail.com (Pete Hardie)]

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 08:19, Jeff Hubbs <jhubbslist at att.net> wrote:
> I use Grip on Gentoo to go from CD to FLAC and I have my own Python
> script that uses sox and lame to make MP3s. ?So I have a pair of similar
> directory trees, one with FLACs and MP3s (the latter when that's the
> format of my original) and one with MP3s made from the FLACs and copies
> of the original FLACs. ?Something I'm not doing right and need to fix
> (because my daughter gripes at me) is that I'm not handling track order
> properly somewhere along the line...When a directory of songs
> (representing an album) gets pulled into an iTunes library, I want to
> have it where the songs will get grouped by album and the songs on each
> album will play in the original order. ?I've been doing it by starting
> song names with track numbers (e.g., "01_tom_sawyer.mp3) but that screws
> up browsing for songs by name on the iPhone and other devices. ?Is there
> a way I can I maintain track number info from CD to FLAC to MP3 or do I
> need to have a more elaborate Grip configuration that makes FLACs and
> MP3s at the same time?


I've had similar issues, and for MP3s I I think there is a Grip option
to generate the ,m3u file
in album order.  I don't know if FLAC players have anything similar





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