Exact Copy, track, genre, artist, cover info lost?

galyons · « **on:** 4 Jan 2011, 12:01 am »

Hi,
I am new to "going discless". I have a new Logitech Touch, I set up a music server with Ubuntu as the OS. I ripped about 25 CD's with Exact Audio Copy and used the Freedb utility to get cover art. I picked the album art that I wanted. All of my tracks, (WAV), are fine, but I have no accompanying info such as artist, genre, track title, album title etc. So nothing to display or sort on with the Touch.

The only album cover art that was stored was the last CD ripped. What am I doing wrong? I did not have these issues with iTunes. But would rather use a different program for the music server. (not a big iTunes fan!)

Any thoughts, ideas and/or input would be greatly appreciated!

Happy New Year!
Geary

kgturner · « **Reply #1 on:** 4 Jan 2011, 12:32 am »

WAV files don't technically support tagging info. However, using a program like Tag and Rename allows you to enter the metadata you want into each WAV file. I have all my music ripped as WAV and use this program.

Kevin T

skunark · « **Reply #2 on:** 4 Jan 2011, 05:26 am »

WAV is probably the most supported and least friendly format out there. AIFF would be your next option and will support tags and is roughly equivalent to WAV on how it stores the PCM data but I would suggest Apple Lossless as it's also a lossless format just consumes less disk-space, network and file IO resources.

25 CDs is pretty quick to re-rip but perhaps do a few and make sure everything is how you want it before going further.

Vincent Kars · « **Reply #3 on:** 4 Jan 2011, 09:02 am »

WAV can be perfectly tagged but there is no standard like ID3 in case of MP3.
So depending on your media player, WAV is not tagged at all or using some DIY convention.
As a consequence portability of the tags is low.
You might try ripping to WAV and use a CUE sheet.

My advise is to rip to a lossless format with good tagging support.
As you run Ubuntu, FLAC is an obvious choice.
http://www.thewelltemperedcomputer.com/KB/WAV_KB.htm

bfr1992t · « **Reply #4 on:** 7 Jan 2011, 01:40 am »

EAC doesn't support adding metadata to WAV files. I second the recommendation to use a lossless compression format that EAC is able to add tags to such as FLAC.

galyons · « **Reply #5 on:** 7 Jan 2011, 03:56 pm »

The strong consensus is to use FLAC. I will do that and report back. I didn't want compressed files, but you forced me to research FLAC and it lossless characteristics. I'll give it a go! I appreciate everyone's input!

Cheers,
Geary