Re: [Banshee-List] Importing cds with banshee, my experiences.

["Andrew Conkling" <andrew conkling gmail com>]

Thanks for your feedback! Could you please file bugs for these (one
bug per issue)? You can find some general instructions here:
http://banshee-project.org/contribute/file-bugs/

Cheers,
Andrew




On 8/31/08, Darin Ohashi <dohashi gmail com> wrote:
>
> I just finished ripping my way through about 100 cds, and I thought I'd
> provide some feedback on the experience.
>
> First, of the approximately 100 cds about 15 of them fell victim to the
> waiting for metadata problem.  Banshee seems to hang while waiting for the
> metadata from musicbrainz.  The data exists and sound juicer seems to have
> no
> problems downloading and displaying it.
>
> I'd say about 30 of the albums I ripped did not have their disk id on
> musicbrainz, but did have a corresponding release.  sound juicer makes it
> really easy to add the disk id to musicbrainz, by having a button that opens
> a web browser with a musicbrainz page with the disk id.  It would be really
> nice if banshee could do the same.
>
> When ripping a multi-artist cd, the track artist and album artist are both
> set
> to the track artist value.  This means that ripping a multi-artist cd does
> not
> produce a nice multi-artist album in the album browser, but a separate album
> for each track.  Although it is pretty easy to change the album artist to
> fix
> this, it would be nice if there were a way to make this work when ripping.
>
> When changing these files, I thought I'd be clever and set the album artist
> to
> soundtrack or compilation, hoping that I could use that value in the artist
> browser to see all the soundtracks or compilations.  However it appears the
> artist browser currently uses the track artist.  This make sense to me as
> well, however I was wondering if it would be possible to display both the
> track artist and album artist, thus enabling me to see both the individual
> artists and have compilations/soundtracks grouped together.
>
> I did read through the multi-artist discussion from July.  It seems like the
> configurable browser windows that were discussed would only use one tag at a
> time.  Would it be possible to extend that so that I could get both the
> track
> and album artists listed in one browser window?
>
> Finally, just out of curiosity, I tried ripping a cd with sound juicer.  It
> was much faster than banshee.  It seemed the average multiplier I saw when
> ripping with banshee was in the 5-10x.  With sound juicer I got speeds in
> the
> 15-20x.
>
> I hope this is helpful.
>
> Darin
>
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