So you would like to digitise your CD collection? (& Part 4)

After configuring the sound system (So you would like to digitise your CD collection? (Part 1)), digitizing the CDs (So you would like to digitise your CD collection? (Part 2)), and preparing the system to listen to the music (So you would like to digitise your CD collection? (Part 3)) it is time to add some odds and ends that can help you with your music collection. First of all, the images. LMS (Lyrion Music Server) expects some file called folder.jpg, cover.jpg, or album.jpg (with .jpeg extension it works well). So you can download (or scan from your CDs) and put an image with that name in your disk folder containing the flac files from your CD and LMS will show it. I'm using mainly pictures from the internet (Discogs has lots of them), but also my own pictures. I'm not sure if it is a problem of the information of MusicBrainz or the interaction with whipper program, but most of the times there is not information about the genres in the flac files I'm obtaining. Doing a bit of research I found the program metaflac (Flac documentation) which can do lots of things with your flac files. In particular, it can attach metadata about the recordings. For example, you can: Export the tags attached to a file (in this case, because of the =- it will shown them on the terminal, you can set the output to a text file. metaflac --export-tags-to=- filename.flac Set some tag for a file: metaflac --set-tag=genre="classical" filename.flac Remove some tag from a file: metaflac --remove-tag=genre So, whith this, you can tune the metainformation available for LSM. I'm using it for the genres, but I believe that more intersting things will be possible. So far, so good: time to finish. I'm not sure if will return to this topic in the future but for now I've prepared a list of tips and ideas that will be useful, maybe, for the future me. Perhaps they will be interesting for some other people. Anyway, during these weeks I've found more information that can be useful for tuning my system so, who knows. These two texts are mainly related to the 'bit-prefect' audio thing: FreeBSD and hi-fi audio setup: bit-perfect, equalizer, real-time Bit-perfect Audio

Apr 8, 2025 - 11:59

So you would like to digitise your CD collection? (& Part 4)

After configuring the sound system (So you would like to digitise your CD collection? (Part 1)), digitizing the CDs (So you would like to digitise your CD collection? (Part 2)), and preparing the system to listen to the music (So you would like to digitise your CD collection? (Part 3)) it is time to add some odds and ends that can help you with your music collection.

First of all, the images. LMS (Lyrion Music Server) expects some file called folder.jpg, cover.jpg, or album.jpg (with .jpeg extension it works well). So you can download (or scan from your CDs) and put an image with that name in your disk folder containing the flac files from your CD and LMS will show it. I'm using mainly pictures from the internet (Discogs has lots of them), but also my own pictures.

I'm not sure if it is a problem of the information of MusicBrainz or the interaction with whipper program, but most of the times there is not information about the genres in the flac files I'm obtaining.

Doing a bit of research I found the program metaflac (Flac documentation) which can do lots of things with your flac files. In particular, it can attach metadata about the recordings.

For example, you can:

Export the tags attached to a file (in this case, because of the =- it will shown them on the terminal, you can set the output to a text file.
metaflac --export-tags-to=- filename.flac
Set some tag for a file:
metaflac --set-tag=genre="classical" filename.flac
Remove some tag from a file:
metaflac --remove-tag=genre

So, whith this, you can tune the metainformation available for LSM. I'm using it for the genres, but I believe that more intersting things will be possible.

So far, so good: time to finish. I'm not sure if will return to this topic in the future but for now I've prepared a list of tips and ideas that will be useful, maybe, for the future me. Perhaps they will be interesting for some other people.

Anyway, during these weeks I've found more information that can be useful for tuning my system so, who knows. These two texts are mainly related to the 'bit-prefect' audio thing: