Hello, can anyone explain in layman’s terms how to rename albums and tracks ripped and named unknown by my Beosound 5 ?I can strap my windows 10 laptop in but I think I need some old B&O software on it - I loath ITunes so won’t let it near my pc
its frustrating to not have all the albums and tracks chronologically listed !
thanks in advance, Paul
Hey Paul
Did you have any luck with Barry's suggestion.I'm about to take delivery of a Beosound 5 with CD ripper and 1TB drive and i'm going to want to load all my CD's wtih album art...Fingers crossed this software works...BUT i have no idea how to connect this all up.
Will wait till i get the unit and see how I go.
Harry1: Hey Paul Did you have any luck with Barry's suggestion.I'm about to take delivery of a Beosound 5 with CD ripper and 1TB drive and i'm going to want to load all my CD's wtih album art...Fingers crossed this software works...BUT i have no idea how to connect this all up. Will wait till i get the unit and see how I go.
The CD Ripper is not worth much today. What I have done on a completely blank BS5, is just using iTunes to rip my CD's, and add album covers/tagging, and then just upload the folders to the BM5 via network. In iTunes it is easy to get an overview of the tagging/album covers, to verify they are correct before transferring to BM.
/Weebyx
Looks like sound advice from Weeby although I am not a fan of Itunes controlling my laptop.
With Bliss I havent yet discovered how to get the thread to my server/BS5 memory so am a bit stuck.
Good luck, P
Is the CD ripper of no value becuase there is no longer a licence iwth gracenote? or is it of no value because it's actually no good.
I wonder if there is there a way to direct the beosound 5 to talk to bliss music directly?
Can't wait to get my beosound 5 but is sounds like i'm in for a bit of work to get the best out of it.#patience
Paul: Looks like sound advice from Weeby although I am not a fan of Itunes controlling my laptop. With Bliss I havent yet discovered how to get the thread to my server/BS5 memory so am a bit stuck. Good luck, P
iTunes is not controlling anything ;) Yes, some things are Apple stuff, but if just used for CD ripping/tagging, I have no concerns or observations.
I just find it very easy to get an overview of all my albums with covers and tagging, and then just copy directories to Beomaster.
Harry1: Is the CD ripper of no value becuase there is no longer a licence iwth gracenote? or is it of no value because it's actually no good. I wonder if there is there a way to direct the beosound 5 to talk to bliss music directly? Can't wait to get my beosound 5 but is sounds like i'm in for a bit of work to get the best out of it.#patience
Yes, CD ripper will rip music from the CD, without any tagging or way of knowing what it is after ripping. It is the connection with CDDB/Gracenote that is no longer working.
I had a CD Ripper for mine, sold it because it was of no use for me because of this issue. Would never pay 1 cent extra for a system advertised with ripper as bonus feature. Sorry if that is bad news for you.
I don't know if Taggers can tag music already ripped as "Album1/track01" without the CD to read from.
Does this mean that BLISS can live on the Beosound 5 1TB hard drive?
Ieve asked Strava stkm sounds heavenly to see if he’ll do a video on this topic but I think he’d get hundreds of requests.
Barry Santini:Bliss can be resident on your server (faster), or on your computer. If on your computer, just point Bliss to the folder where the music resides in Settings. B
If on your computer, just point Bliss to the folder where the music resides in Settings.
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But how will bliss know Artist/Album/Tracks from a ripped WAV file that includes no information ? Unless off course the WAV actually at least contains the time of the track, then maybe from the number of tracks, and length of each track, it can find albums that might match ? Normally CDDB information is retrieved from a value that is unique to each albums, embedded on the CD.
Off course, if this information can be added as metadata to each ripped WAV fil, bliss can use this. But without any information at all, other that audio info, how will bliss find the album info ?
Assume that it used the 0's and 1's of the digital information to know what album and consequently what track etc even if it's not loaded onto the CD as metadata.I'm not thrilled by the proposition of naming and getting images for all my CD's but I will do this if thats the only way.
Harry1: Assume that it used the 0's and 1's of the digital information to know what album and consequently what track etc even if it's not loaded onto the CD as metadata.I'm not thrilled by the proposition of naming and getting images for all my CD's but I will do this if thats the only way.
I can see it working, if it finds a folder with x tracks in it, it can then search the database for albums with the same number of tracks, and then match each track with the playing length of the ripped music file.
But let us know if it works, it could help other people that still rips CD's on their BM5.
Since the music directory on BM5 is a shared folder, it should be easy to have bliss live on another machine(if it does not run on WinXP), and then just point Bliss to the network drive.
I’ve got my beosound 5 and it’s just as beautiful as I rememer them.
thankfully the previous owner left some music on the beomaster 5 so I can at least use it.
I think my best bet to get my music on the beomaster5 is to rip it on my computer and put it on a it on a usb drive with the album art and How do I tell beomaster 5 to grab the music from a usb drive?
Thanks in advance.
Jarrod