Since it's an iTunes script, I'd figured it'd work for my Squeezeboxes as well. I did download that script from the Sonos site and got the artwork for about 30% of my albums. Thanks to user Sbleam for your suggestion. I have had to restore my library from my backup drive twice in the past year. Whatever you do, remember to buy a USB drive and back up everything on a regular basis. Unless you like sorting by the performer, orchestra or conductor, this works pretty well. I prefer to use the composer as the artist, composer and "album artist" in the metadata. It is a slow process, and I make it slower by carefully reviewing the metadata before ripping the next CD. On custom CDs, for which dbPA doesn't retreive cover art, I add it using the MP3Tag. It also allows you to choose album art before the rip. The advantage is that dbPA lets you review and edit the metadata before the rip. Others suggested I purchase and install db Poweramp on my computer and use it to rip instead of the Vortexbox. I, too, had issues with album cover art, and some other ripping issues. For tagging, I use the the free MP3Tag program. The Vortexbox uses FLAC, and includes a ripper with DVD drive, and runs Linux. I am a pretty low-tech guy, but here's what I use: I have a SBT, and for a server, I bought the Vortexbox Appliance (currently $429 for the entry-level 1TB model, but there are bigger and audiophile versions available). If successful, I'll connect the SBT to another library on the Mac (which references, through iTunes, the external Windows drive) rescan the Logitech media server on the Mac, and see what shakes.īut in the meantime, has anyone out there figured out a way to get the artwork into an SBT when it's connected to a PC? I do have some musicfiles local to the Mac, so I'll download one of these scripts, try it, and report the results back to the group. I also get other FLAC's from other places, no problems there either. I store the HDTracks, which are FLAC's, on another local download folder. downloads (mostly from HDTracks, some from Classicsonline), the imagefiles come into the SBT just fine, even when i use iTunes to copy the Classicsonline songs from my local download folder to my music drive, which is an external HDD off my Windows box. I'll try this on my Mac laptop, but, as I mostly use my stationary Dell PC, I'm more interested in keeping a library there.Įventually I'll move from an external drive to a NAS, and put all my music on the NAS, so I can create identical multiple libraries, one for each, on my PC, my Mac, and whatever iDevices or Androids I might subsequently own. Logitech service says it's working on a fix for this, but for now, Logitech directs me to some third-party scripts so far I've been only able to find scripts for Macs, not Windows boxes. The problem, I've been told, is that the iTunes UI saves the album art to a separate folder instead of embedding it in the songfile. On legacy material, the coverart doesn't come into the SBT UI on anything, whether or not the art was picked up by iTunes. The other big issue is, what to do about the album art. Works well, and when I stumble across a metadata issue as above, on an as-discovered basis, I do the iTunes thing and scan again. Anyway, I don't drill down the Artist or Album fields to find an album I use the Search at root, usually typing a composer name for classical or an artist name for pop or jazz. RealPlayer, Winamp, dBPA, or whatever, I would've been left high and dry. I have a funny feeling that if I used e.g. Since you can't edit Artist metadata from within the SBT UI, you have to go back into iTunes, edit the Artist field so that it's consistent over all selections on the album (the original CD in my example is DG 289 469 529-2), then go back into Logitech Media Server, check the Use iTunes checkbox, then do another media scan. This is a real headache when you want to play an entire album and there's an artist who doesn't play on the whole album (say, Brahms' VnC over three songs and his Double over three others). I used iTunes not only because of its ubiquity, but, believe it or not, it actually was the best out of a really bad field in parsing metadata. It took me about a year to rip my legacy music collection. Restart the offending client and we're back up and running. That's not a Logitech issue, and the autoboots are not on any sort of preset schedule, but they're probably a Windows Update or antivirus something or other. Setup and everyday usage generally go without a hitch, except when sometimes my Windows box autoboots when it had been turned off. ![]() Well, finally purchased two Logitech SBT's.
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