My Current Foobar Interfaces ~ Default User Interface (DUI)
Monthly Archives: October 2015
EAC ~ Additional Command Line Compression Options For FLAC Encoding
My current EAC FLAC command line
EAC / Compression Options / External Compression / Additional command-line options:
-8 -V -T “ARTIST=%artist%” -T “TITLE=%title%” -T “ALBUM=%albumtitle%” -T “DATE=%year%” -T “TRACKNUMBER=%tracknr%” -T “GENRE=%genre%” -T “COMMENT=%comment%” -T “Performer=%albuminterpret%” -T “ALBUMARTIST=%albumartist%” -T “COMPOSER=%composer%” -T “CRC=%trackcrc%” -T “FREEDBID=%cddbid%” %haslyrics%–tag-from-file=LYRICS=”%lyricsfile%”%haslyrics% -T “DISCNUMBER=%cdnumber%” -T “TOTALDISCS=%totalcds%” -T “TOTALTRACKS=%numtracks%” %hascover%–picture=”%coverfile%”%hascover% %source% -o %dest%
References:
EAC and FLAC ~ Hydrogen Audio Wiki
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My Audio Hardware
My current setup:
A Krell KPS-30i and a Linn Basik turntable with an Akito tonearm.
A Nakamichi BX-300 & a Nakamichi BX-150
A Pioneer Elite SACD Player
A TEAC UD-H01 USB DAC
A modified Meridian 101 preamp
A pair of 240 watt highly modified Altec 1569 monoblocks
A pair of PR-2 speakers, hand built by Bill Perkins of Pearl High Fidelity ♥
A Plextor 40/12/40A
An M-Audio Audiophile 24/96
An ASUS Xoner Audio Card
I also own a pair of Quad IIs, a 33 Preamp, a 303 Amp & a pair of semi rebuilt Quad ESL 57s ♥
Quad Electrostatic Loudspeakers & Quad Today
Spin Clean Record Washer
Useful Audio / Visual / Shipping Web Sites
Audiophile Rock Album Reviews ~ Absolute Sound
Advanced music search ~ Amazon.com
Album artwork search ~ Albumart
Amazing album cover scans ~ Album Art Exchange
Audio forum and resources ~ Audio Asylum
Audio forum and resources ~ Audiokarma
Balanced Interconnects – Properly connect your gear
Barcode Reader – Inlite Research
Beatles releases comparisons ~ BeatleDrops
Best selling albums ~ Wikipedia
Billboard Magazine Hot 100 ~ Wikipedia
Calgary Cassette Preservation Society ~ Local public domain repository
Canadian artists’ discographies ~ Wikipedia
Canadian Folk ~ Last.FM
Canadian Folk Artists ~ Northern Journey
Canadian Folk Music Award Winners ~ The Canadian Folk Music Awards
Canadian Record Album Covers ~ The Record Project
Canadian Society for Traditional Music ~ Arranged by artist
Canadian Music Resources ~ Institute for Canadian Music
Canadian music search ~ Museum Of Canadian Music
Canadian music search ~ Amazon.ca
Cylinder, Disc and Tape Care in a Nutshell ~ The Library of Congress
Digital audio forum ~ Hydrogen Audio
Digital media primer for geeks ~ Xiph.org
Directory of music resources – Open Directory Project
Distortion and music ~ Wikipedia
Dynamic Range Database ~ Album List & Search
EAC set up ~ Hydrogen Audio
EAC gap settings ~ Hydrogen Audio
EAC Guides ~ Hydrogen Audio
EAC cue and log conversion ~ EAC Helper
Encyclopedia ~ MusicBrainz, The Open Music Encyclopedia
Foobar – Skinning Tutorial ~ DeviantArt
Genres – popular ~ Wikipedia
Golden Ears – Hearing Better ~ Philips
Hardware database & equipment resources ~ HiFi Engine
Label Codes ~ Wikipedia
Library catalog meta-search ~ OCLC WorldCat
Loudness War & Poorly Remastered CDs ~ Youtube
Lyric Search ~ Lyrster
Musical styles ~ Listology
Musipedia ~ The Open Music Encyclopedia
Name of a song is unknown? ~ Name My Tune
Needledrops ~ 78 RPM Music Archive
Pink Floyd Discographies Page ~ Pink Floyd Archives
Playlists – Search for and share ~ Playlists.com
Ratings ~ RYM (Rate Your Music)
Record Grades – Record Collectors Guild
Record grading 101 ~ Goldmine
Record labels ~ Wikipedia
Record Store Search ~ MusicStack
Record Store Search ~ Vinyl Hub
Removing clicks and record noise ~ Audacity
Rocky Mountain Folk Club ~ Southern Alberta & Calgary Folk Music
Scanning tips ~ by Wayne Fulton
Shipping Info ~ Frank’s Compulsive Guide To Postal Addresses
SPARS Codes ~ Wikipedia
Surround Sound Speaker Set-up ~ THX
Stylus maintenance ~ The Magic Eraser Method
Tagging songs by moods ~ Allmusic
Track, show and find music ~ Last.FM
Target CDs ~ Keith Hirsch
Top 100 Albums Of All Time (2013) ~ Dave’s Music Database
Turntable Information ~ Vinyl Engine
Universal Scobbler ~ Last.FM
Unusual types of gramophone records ~ Wikipedia
URL Decoder / Encoder ~ Eric Meyer
Vinyl Engine ~ All the information you need to get the best sound from your records
Vinyl Pressing Plants ~ Total Sonic Media
Vinyl Price Guide ~ Popsike
Vinyl Ripping Tips ~ cliveb
World Telephone Numbering Guide ~ WTNG
YouTube Music Videos With Pictures – 9 steps ~ WikiHow
Recommended Audio Software
The Best Of The Best List
Accuraterip ~ Accurate DAE (Digital Audio Extraction)
AcoustID ~ Identify & Fingerprint Songs
Ampache ~ Freeware streaming music server
Audacity ~ Freeware audio editor & recorder
AudioShell ~ Freeware Windows audio tag integration
BatchEncoder ~ Freeware Audio Encoder Frontend
Boom Audio Player ~ Foobar2000’s simpler sibling
CDBurnerXP ~ Freeware CD & DVD Burner
CUETools ~ Freeware cue file tools
DADA Auto-Rating For Foobar ~ Automatically rate your music
DRC (Digital Room Correction) ~ Advanced equalization
EAC (Exact Audio Copy) ~ Advanced freeware CD ripper
Equalizer APO ~ Advanced Windows Equalization
FLAC (Free Lossless Audio CODEC) ~ Open lossless audio format
Foobar2000 ~ Advanced freeware audio player
Foobar2000 @ Deviant Art ~ Skins & themes
foo_discogs = Foobar2000 + Discogs ~ Advanced file tagging
freeDB ~ Set up freeDB access Search FreeDB
KeyFinder ~ Freeware musical key analyzer
LAME ~ Freeware mp3 encoder
MP3 Diags ~ Freeware mp3 file repair tool
MP3Gain ~ Freeware mp3 volume normalization
Mp3tag ~ Freeware metadata tag editor
MusicBrainz Picard ~ Tag songs with MusicBrainz metadata and cover art
MuseScore ~ Music composition and notation
PlexTools ~ Plextor’s CD ripper
PowerShell Audio ~ PowerShell-driven audio interface
ProjectM ~ Advanced music visualization
ReplayGain ~ Advanced gain equalization
ReplayGain & Foobar ~ ReplayGain within Foobar2000
ReplayGain & Foobar under Linux ~ RPG with Wine & Foobar2000
Room EQ Wizard ~ Room equalization analysis & compensation filters
RightMark Audio Analyzer ~ Freeware Audio Hardware Analyzer
SoundHound ~ Name that tune
Sox ~ The Swiss Army Knife Of Sound Processing
Teac Editor / Teac Player ~ Hi Resolution Audio Editor & Player
VU Meter ~ Freeware Standalone Analog Volume Unit Meter
WinAmp Repository ~ NullSoft WinAmp archive
Windows DirectShow Filters – Use FLAC & OGG in Windows, freeware
WMP Tag Plus ~ Extends Windows tag support, freeware
Best Discogs Lists
- 100 Best Albums Ever ~ The Guardian
- 100 Best Album Covers ~ Thorgerson / Powell
- 100 Best Albums Of The 1980s ~ Slant Magazine
- 100 Best Albums Of The Eighties ~ Rolling-Stone
- 100 Greatest Albums Ever ~ Q Magazine
- 100 Greatest Album Covers ~ Rolling Stone
- 100 Great Political Songs
- 100 Songs That Changed The World ~ Q Magazine
- 100 Top Club Tunes – DJ Magazine 1998
- 1000 Exceptional Album Covers
- 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die
- 20 Most Underrated Albums Of All Time ~ Salon
- 50 Darkest Albums Ever ~ NME Magazine
- 50 Greatest Alternative Hip Hop Tracks
- 50 Most Expensive CDs Sold On Discogs
- 500 Top Albums – NME Magazine (2013)
- 500 Greatest Albums ~ Rolling Stone
- 90 Greatest 90’s Albums ~ Alternative Press
- 90 Greatest 90’s Albums ~ Spin Magazine
- Albums That Changed My Life
- Art Nouveau
- Beehype – Best Albums Of 2022
- Best Ambient Albums
- Best Travel Log Trips
- Biggest Boxed Sets
- Billboard Country
- Billboard Hot 100 1958 – 1995
- Billboard Jazz
- Bleep – Top 100 Albums Of The Year – 2023
- Canadian Folk Artists
- Churches As Recording Locations
- Classical, Ambient, Traditional And Instrumental Albums You Should Listen To…
- Common Runout Groove Etchings
- Discogs Edge Cases
- Essential Rock Artists Of The Eighties And Nineties
- Experiments, Gimmick & Concept Albums And Bands
- Far Out Magazine – The Best Albums Of The 1990s, Year By Year
- Freakshow – A Museum Of Strangeness
- Greatest Jazz Albums
- Hi-Fi Equipment Manufacturers
- Hi-Fi Test & Adjustment Records
- Highest Rated Albums On Discogs
- Juno – Classic International Albums On Vinyl
- Juno – Best Vinyl Albums Of 2016
- Juno – International Recommendations Best of 2017
- Juno – Best Reissues And Compilations Of 2022
- Juno Recommends International: July 2023
- List-o-rama: Index Of Rare Discog Lists
- Longest Track Titles
- Most Expensive Items Sold On Discogs – Monthly Lists
- Music Of Saskatchewan
- New Age Music Guide
- Number Ones in Finland: The Albums
- Original Cover – Tribute Cover
- Pan African Music – The 50 Best Albums Of 2023
- Pitchfork – Sunday Reviews
- Photos Of Engineers At The Console
- Quad / Surround Demos & Tests
- Sound Effects
- Superheroes & Sci-Fi
- Target CDs
- Technical Demonstrations
- Technical Samplers
- Technical Tests
- The Attic – Favourite Albums of 2015
- The New Age Music Guide
- The Quietus Best Albums of 2015 (underground)
- The Rock’N’Roll Hall Of Fame
- The Strawberry Bricks Guide to Progressive Rock
- Top 100 Bestsellers Of All Time ~ DMDB
- Top 100 Canadian Albums
- Top 100 – Discogs Most Expensive Records
- Top 100 – Discogs Most Wanted (by master release)
- Top 100 – Discogs Most Wanted (by release)
- Top 30 – Discogs’ Most Popular Albums
- Top Female Albums At Discogs
- Universities
- Unusual Album Covers
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