Calling EAC/Nero Experts

[Praxis]

Hello:

1. Can someone tell me when one goes into the EAC programme; then to "compression options" and then to "ID3 tags", which of the items there should I have a check mark beside? Thanks.

2. Also, when finished ripping with EAC, what is the best way to bring your album over to Nero. I ask this because when I see the listing of the ripped songs, I also see a couple of data files, plus the Nero symbol at the top. When I press on the Nero symbol it brings all of the songs over to begin burning, but it also brings those data files over. So what I did was opened up Nero first and then highlighted and brought over only the songs and left out the data files instead of pressing the little Nero symbol which was above my ablum list which brought over everything. This is a naive question I know, but someone might be able to get what I'm trying to say and maybe could offer a method which is the right way. When you reply, can you thoroughly describe what you mean, kinda like you would talk to a mentle patient, just kidding, I'm new at this and don't get the short form talk. Thanks so much,

Praxis

 

[Praxis]

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[Praxis]

Can anyone throw me a bone? Thanks.

 

[OttoMatic]

Hi Praxis,

Regarding the ID3 tag thing. I have it set up like this:

Off -- Use ID3 V1.1 tags instead of ID3 V1.0 tags
On -- Additionally write ID3 V2 tags, using a padding of ... 4 kb.
Off -- Use ID 3V2.4.0 tags instead of ID3V2.3.0 tags
On -- Use track format xx/xx in ID3V2 tags

I don't claim to know what all those mean, and I don't keep up with what tag versions are used where. But it's been set up like that for years, and I have no problems with the tags as I use them -- I'm able to gather and sort the data properly.

I have no idea about the Nero stuff. If you're talking about importing the new songs into a player, I use Winamp, and can talk about that (I always used Nero for burning data and such, but it might have morphed into a player as well...).

Anyway, good luck.

 

[MDS]

Off -- Use ID3 V1.1 tags instead of ID3 V1.0 tags
On -- Additionally write ID3 V2 tags, using a padding of ... 4 kb.
Off -- Use ID 3V2.4.0 tags instead of ID3V2.3.0 tags
On -- Use track format xx/xx in ID3V2 tags

If those are the options, here is what they mean:

- ID3 V1.0 is naturally the first version of ID3. The tag is limited to 128 bytes and goes at the end of the file. The fields for artist, title, etc are fixed length which makes V1.0 useless as a long name will be truncated to 30 characters.

- ID3 V1.1 simply adds the 'genre' field but it does so by assigning a single number to represent the genre. You'd have to look up the table to see what '7' means for genre, for example.

- The option to additionally write V2 tags simply says write a V2 tag in addition to writing a V1.0./1.1 tag. V2 tags go at the beginning of the file and can be any length and by that description it will be 4 kb in length. A typical tag is nowhere near 4 kb but since it will use 4 kb at the beginning of the file there is plenty of space for changing the tag and adding more properties without rewriting the whole file.

V2 tags are required for streaming because with a V1 tag at the end of the file, a player couldn't show you the tag information until it receives the whole file. IMO, V1 tags are absolutely useless and if you are able to inform EAC to not write a V1 tag you should do so. There are practically zero media players that only support V1 tags.

- Use track format xx/xx in V2 tags is probably referring to the properties track number/disc number. So if you have a double CD and the track is track 5 on disc 2, that information would be added to the tag.

 

[Praxis]

Thanks

Thanks OttoMatic & MDS. Thanks for taking the time to help.

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