J River Media Centre 15

[admin_exported]

Hi there. i have been using the demo of J River's media centre 15 to rip my cd's to ape files. Sound quality is great and functionality seems pretty good to. My question is, when i rip a compilation CD such as an 80's CD with various artists, it splits it up in to individuals and then fails to find the art work?! i now have hundreds of 'singles' listed with the same 'best of' or what ever tiltle?! Any thoughts or ideas on how to convert these back would be much appreciated!

Or should / could i be using better software?! Is there any softward that will sit 'with' WMP, in a way that 'My Movies' does for films?

Any advice will be greatly received.

Thanks,

Jason.

 

[Gerrardasnails]

Hi there. i have been using the demo of J River's media centre 15 to rip my cd's to ape files. Sound quality is great and functionality seems pretty good to. My question is, when i rip a compilation CD such as an 80's CD with various artists, it splits it up in to individuals and then fails to find the art work?! i now have hundreds of 'singles' listed with the same 'best of' or what ever tiltle?! Any thoughts or ideas on how to convert these back would be much appreciated!

Or should / could i be using better software?! Is there any softward that will sit 'with' WMP, in a way that 'My Movies' does for films?

Any advice will be greatly received.

Thanks,

Jason.

The best way Ican think of is select album view and then tag the various albums with same artist name and album name. It won't take that long.

 

[eternaloptimist]

Hi Jason,

I use J River MC 16 Beta (see the Interact forum under Support).

If you go to: Tools => Options => File Location... there is a section "Cover Art" where you can choose where the Cover art is stored AND whether the default is that the Cover art image is also stored in the file's tag. I have this checked.

I rip with EAC (Exact Audio Copy) to FLAC then import. When imported, the image is then incorporated in the file's tag (metadata associated with each file).

If adding Cover art from within J River and the "Cover art image is stored in the file's tag" is checked, the image file is added to the file's tag.

There is an excellent Support forum at J River which covers this also - the developers are very responsive.

Also... is there a reason you are not ripping to lossless such as FLAC? HDD space is cheap....

Good luck!