Comments on: Bulk CD Ripping — Part Two: FLAC images to MP3 files

By: joel bombardier

joel bombardier — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:34:08 +0000

this looks great. You should check out a similar tool that my friend wrote which deals with the same problem. Also, I am a huge fan of your website and as a tinker-er and hobby framebuilder have been appreciating it for years. Thanks.

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 05:08:34 +0000

Yay! I got it working finally. Big problem I had was that EAC 0.99pb1 doesn''t work with REACT2 (filenames for @cuesheet@ and @eaclog@ don''t resolve right). Turns out that Synthetic Sound has a REACT2 mod that also happens to fix this. Now onto replay gain: does the stock transcode.cfg apply replay gain? I see lame print replaygain info during encoding, but I don''t see the replaygain tag in my tag viewer. If not, how do you suggest modding this to use the replay gain from the FLAC encoding (since it''s already been computed)?

By: AlexWetmore

AlexWetmore — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 13:19:13 +0000

What happens when you run “metaflac –show-tag=DISC_PERFORMER” on that FLAC?

You can set the MUSICBRAINZID into the FLAC from the command line by running:
“metaflac –set-tag=DISC_MUSICBRAINZ_ID=” where is replaced with the musicbrainz URL. Look at the function setMusicBrainzId in FlacHelper.py.

By: Jasper

Jasper — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 03:39:26 +0000

Error Message:

I get the following error message when running your really helpful tagging software. Any Ideas ?

M:FLAC-images>tag.py
Various – Pump Up the Volume.wav.flac
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “C:Python25tag.py”, line 435, in
app = Application(["*.flac"])
File “C:Python25tag.py”, line 41, in __init__
self.loadFlac()
File “C:Python25tag.py”, line 178, in loadFlac
[artist, title] = self.flac.getArtistAndTitle()
File “C:Python25FlacHelper.py”, line 91, in getArtistAndTitle
artist = artist[0].partition(“=”)[2]
IndexError: list index out of range

By: Smiley

Smiley — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 02:01:18 +0000

Alex … This has been wonderful software. Most of my CDs tagged without any problem. Unfortunately, my soundtracks (Pulp Fiction, Blade, etc) do not work properly in your tagger. I am also unable to manually enter a musicbrainz id. When the tagger gets to these titles I get a listindex out of range error. How do I either add these cds to musicbrainz or force save a manually entered muscbrainz URL. I have done this for non-soundtracks with success but it does not seem to work for soundtracks. Thanks.

By: AlexWetmore

AlexWetmore — Sat, 26 May 2007 14:17:26 +0000

I haven”t looked at any new software released in the last 6 months. As far as I know no one has released an app that does EAC-quality ripping while controlling a CD/DVD changer to rip in bulk.

MusicBrainz support was pretty wide spread when I wrote this stuff, but I didn”t find anything that worked on FLAC CD images instead of a track by track basis.

Based on what I know today I”d have written the same thing.

By: Rob

Rob — Sun, 20 May 2007 22:10:34 +0000

What a difference a few months makes… MusicBrainz has matured and has been incorporated into several apps as has AccurateRip, and Replay Gain.

If you were all to do it again today from scratch (read: if you were me), what would you do differently?