Question

How to rip 2 disc album?

Asked by: vallis

Normally ripping multi-disc albums works OK but I'm having trouble with some. For instance I have "Dies Irae #1 choral album". CD1 rips OK, although track info isn't detected, when I try to rip CD2, it over-writes the first disc.

I tried renaming the first disc before burning the second. Made no difference. Also tried ripping disc 2 first - no luck.

Tried this in windows using both Windows Media Player and iTunes - same result.  Also the same with iTunes on Mac OS X.

I seem to remember using a player (Jedit maybe?) which had a multi disc setting for ripping.

Help!

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2009-10-25 at 17:19:27ID24842384
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Digital Music and Video

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Software MP3 Media Players

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Windows Media Player Software MP3 Player

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Answers

 

by: Macros82Posted on 2009-10-25 at 21:09:42ID: 25659617

So you are doing one disc at a time right? And where is it ripping to by default?

Cant you just move the first disc to a seperate partition or change the default ripping location?

What program are you using to rip it?

 

by: rh5757Posted on 2009-10-25 at 23:53:29ID: 25660047

Your iTunes etc is probably saving the ripped mp3 files in your music folder in the following sub-folders:

\unknown artist\unknown album\track01.mp3, track02.mp3 etc...
(If you have ripped other unrecognized albums in the past, there may be several such old tracks  - if so rename "unknown artist" to "unknown artist - old" before ripping these 2 CD's to completely separate them.)
After you rip the CD1, rename "unknown album" to "CD1"
Then, after ripping CD2, rename teh (newly created) "unknown album" to "CD2", and rename "unknown artist" to "Dies Irae " or whatever you want to identify the artist.

 

by: rh5757Posted on 2009-10-25 at 23:59:46ID: 25660071

After that, you will have to clean up the itunes index/library, by highlighting and removing the entries for the 2 "unknown albums" (which point to the old, non-existent "unknown album" sub folders), then re-adding them to the library by adding the folder "Dies Irae" (and subfolders) to the library. That should then correctly point to their new locations. You can thereafter manually edit the track/genre info inside iTunes.  

 

by: vallisPosted on 2009-10-29 at 14:21:29ID: 25698393

Thanks for the input Experts. I'm still working on this.

 

by: vallisPosted on 2009-11-15 at 08:54:50ID: 25825440

Sorry about the delay. I'm on to it. :(

 

by: vallisPosted on 2010-03-03 at 00:30:27ID: 31697780

Sorry to have neglected this. I didn't entirely solve the problem and haven't had time to address it fully. Your comments pointed me in the right direction so I'm closing it and will generate a new question when I can find time for it.

Thanks.

:)

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