Omni Encoder 1.0 Released, A graphical, multi-format front-end and EAC plug-in Options

[NappyHead]

First, thank you for a great program. I've just started using it and find it amazing, but I have two request. I've ripped my CD collection to flac, 2800 CDs, and would like to recode them to version 1.1.3, to to take advantage of the album art feature.

So, here are my two request:

I would like to be able to add directories, and have the program add file from all sub-directories, something like mp3tag. Adding just files would kill me.

Add album art from the directories, I've already added art, folder.jpg to about 80% of all albums. I know these might be stretching it a bit, but they would help.

Thanks in advance

[Jebus]

First, thank you for a great program. I've just started using it and find it amazing, but I have two request. I've ripped my CD collection to flac, 2800 CDs, and would like to recode them to version 1.1.3, to to take advantage of the album art feature.

So, here are my two request:

I would like to be able to add directories, and have the program add file from all sub-directories, something like mp3tag. Adding just files would kill me.

Add album art from the directories, I've already added art, folder.jpg to about 80% of all albums. I know these might be stretching it a bit, but they would help.

Thanks in advance

Actually you can do both of those already...

Just drag-drop the root folder and it will add all the files. in all sub-directories. I'll be adding an "add directory" menu option later, but this works the same way.

It should automatically add the Folder.jpg as the cover art when you add the files (although i think it looks for "Folder.jpg", case sensitively - I should probably change that, but that's what Windows calls them by default).

[NappyHead]

First, thank you for a great program. I've just started using it and find it amazing, but I have two request. I've ripped my CD collection to flac, 2800 CDs, and would like to recode them to version 1.1.3, to to take advantage of the album art feature.

So, here are my two request:

I would like to be able to add directories, and have the program add file from all sub-directories, something like mp3tag. Adding just files would kill me.

Add album art from the directories, I've already added art, folder.jpg to about 80% of all albums. I know these might be stretching it a bit, but they would help.

Thanks in advance

Actually you can do both of those already...

Just drag-drop the root folder and it will add all the files. in all sub-directories. I'll be adding an "add directory" menu option later, but this works the same way.

It should automatically add the Folder.jpg as the cover art when you add the files (although i think it looks for "Folder.jpg", case sensitively - I should probably change that, but that's what Windows calls them by default).

Very cool, I'll try dragging the root folder. My album art are in both upper and lower case, so I'll wait until you change that

[Jebus]

Very cool, I'll try dragging the root folder. My album art are in both upper and lower case, so I'll wait until you change that

Did you try it? Cause I just did, and it seems to import case-insensitively already.'

edit: actually, be a bit careful... I think it is possible that it might delete your folder.jpg files after conversion if you choose to use "source locations" as the destination... I'll patch that tonight. If you choose a different destination ("mirror" or "tag based" layout) then you should be okay.

(I made a silly decision to flag any art image that doesn't contain the string "Folder.jpg" in its patch as a temporary file, which will be deleted on exit. I'll obviously change that, since its pretty stupid.)

This post has been edited by Jebus: Jan 16 2007, 17:45

[DJED]

Hi -

Feature request...

When transcoding, could the display say the correct info? Right now it says, "Prime Cuts... " by Jibbs.

Second, could it preserve the comment tag and not write the replay gain value?

Thanks bud!

[Jebus]

When transcoding, could the display say the correct info? Right now it says, "Prime Cuts... " by Jibbs.

I don't know what you mean...

[NappyHead]

Did some test, and it worked fine. Was able to drag and drop, and it picked up the album art. Getting an error while trying tr process a file, but I'll work it out to see if it's an issue I can slove.

One more request. Would be nice to have the option to clear the list. I also tried to process a selected number of fiiles, but it started processing from the beginning again.

NH

[Jebus]

Did some test, and it worked fine. Was able to drag and drop, and it picked up the album art. Getting an error while trying tr process a file, but I'll work it out to see if it's an issue I can slove.

One more request. Would be nice to have the option to clear the list. I also tried to process a selected number of fiiles, but it started processing from the beginning again.

NH

select all, delete.

or...

ctrl-a, del

geez, you ever used a pc before ??

[NappyHead]

Ok, I know I tried that today and it didn't work, but tried it again and it did. I'm going to take the last part of your post as a joke

[NappyHead]

Plus, no one who's spent countless hours ripping they music likes to use delete. Most other programs use such commands as, clear, remove, or just uncheck a box. Just something to consider. Still like your program.

NH

[DJED]

When transcoding, could the display say the correct info? Right now it says, "Prime Cuts... " by Jibbs.

I don't know what you mean...

Shows the Album Title and Track Artist as it is progressing. I would think the Track Title would be displayed.

No biggie...

Oh, and got another tagging error. Has a silly % in the tags.

[Jebus]

Oh, and got another tagging error. Has a silly % in the tags.

Like I said, I can't reproduce this problem. Could you send me the file in question?

[DemonCleaner]

I've got a small problem, I read through the thread and it doesn't seem like anyone else has mentioned this particular issue before. Anyway, I use EAC to rip a cd using my FLAC profile, and what happens (as to be expected i guess) is EAC rips the wav, and then sends the wav + tags to OMNI for encoding. So once or twice per album i get this "EAC encountered an error and has to close" blah blah, so I click "don't send error report" and then i get THIS error message immediately after. I click OK, and everything continues along as normal.

So when all is said and done, I have a folder full of fine FLAC's, except for the tracks upon which i encountered said error. These tracks remain WAV's. So I pop them back into OMNI manually, and they get transferred to FLAC no problem (w/o tags though).

This error happens to only 1 or 2 tracks per album, and has happend on 4 of the 5 albums I have ripped/encoded so far. My best guess is I have to change something with my EAC settings.

Thanks

[Jebus]

I've got a small problem, I read through the thread and it doesn't seem like anyone else has mentioned this particular issue before. Anyway, I use EAC to rip a cd using my FLAC profile, and what happens (as to be expected i guess) is EAC rips the wav, and then sends the wav + tags to OMNI for encoding. So once or twice per album i get this "EAC encountered an error and has to close" blah blah, so I click "don't send error report" and then i get THIS error message immediately after. I click OK, and everything continues along as normal.

So when all is said and done, I have a folder full of fine FLAC's, except for the tracks upon which i encountered said error. These tracks remain WAV's. So I pop them back into OMNI manually, and they get transferred to FLAC no problem (w/o tags though).

This error happens to only 1 or 2 tracks per album, and has happend on 4 of the 5 albums I have ripped/encoded so far. My best guess is I have to change something with my EAC settings.

Thanks

I saw this on my old roomate's PC as well... it never happens to me, but it looks like EACEncoder crashes once in a while for some reason. EACEncoder is the program that is actually run by EAC. All it does is pass the tag and path info through to Omni Encoder, and then exit. So when it crashes, it means it didn't send that track's info and thus won't convert it with the rest of the album.

I wish I knew why it was happening... sorry

[DemonCleaner]

I saw this on my old roomate's PC as well... it never happens to me, but it looks like EACEncoder crashes once in a while for some reason. EACEncoder is the program that is actually run by EAC. All it does is pass the tag and path info through to Omni Encoder, and then exit. So when it crashes, it means it didn't send that track's info and thus won't convert it with the rest of the album.

I wish I knew why it was happening... sorry

Hmm, I think i will uninstall and reinstall EAC, if I do so will I have to make any changes to "reintegrate" OMNI with EAC?

[Jebus]

I saw this on my old roomate's PC as well... it never happens to me, but it looks like EACEncoder crashes once in a while for some reason. EACEncoder is the program that is actually run by EAC. All it does is pass the tag and path info through to Omni Encoder, and then exit. So when it crashes, it means it didn't send that track's info and thus won't convert it with the rest of the album.

I wish I knew why it was happening... sorry

Hmm, I think i will uninstall and reinstall EAC, if I do so will I have to make any changes to "reintegrate" OMNI with EAC?

You could just run the "repair" function on Omni via add/remove programs. EACEncoder is an Omni Encoder program though - this isn't EAC's fault, its mine...

[indybrett]

I'm trying this out, but I am having some issues. I have a lot of FLAC files that Omni Encoder is not able to recognize. It's the only application that isn't reading them. Foobar, and every other encoder frontend I have can read them fine. When I drop the files in Omni, nothing shows up. If I do the "File/Add Files" method, I get an unhandled exception error.

[DemonCleaner]

I'm trying this out, but I am having some issues. I have a lot of FLAC files that Omni Encoder is not able to recognize. It's the only application that isn't reading them. Foobar, and every other encoder frontend I have can read them fine. When I drop the files in Omni, nothing shows up. If I do the "File/Add Files" method, I get an unhandled exception error.

Yeah I had a similar problem, as above (if you read my posts) OMNI would skip a couple tracks and not encode them to FLAC, so I dragged the forgotten WAVs back to OMNI and thus encoded them just fine-- only without tags because EAC wasn't there to tell OMNI the proper tags.

So then later I wanted to encode my FLACs to AAC, and OMNI wouldn't recognize the un-tagged files. It took me a minute to figure out that was the problem, so I tagged the files manually with foobar, then dropped them back into OMNI, and OMNI encoded the files --with tags now, to AAC just fine.

So, in short, my problem was (most likely) caused by un-tagged FLACs, and solved by tagging the FLACs. Hope this helps.

[Jebus]

So, in short, my problem was (most likely) caused by un-tagged FLACs, and solved by tagging the FLACs. Hope this helps.

Yep, that helped - thanks! Actually I found 2 bugs in the FLAC module... fixed both (and a couple other minor things). You can now download version 1.2.6.

This post has been edited by Jebus: Jan 19 2007, 09:17

[indybrett]

So, in short, my problem was (most likely) caused by un-tagged FLACs, and solved by tagging the FLACs. Hope this helps.

Yep, that helped - thanks! Actually I found 2 bugs in the FLAC module... fixed both (and a couple other minor things). You can now download version 1.2.6.

That fixed the problem I was having. Thanks.

I want to use this to concert my 1.1.2 FLAC files to 1.1.3. Since this program seems to completely decode the input file prior to encoding, it allows me to write the output to the same directory, overwriting the old FLAC with the new FLAC, with no file locking issues, which is nice.

[gonza]

Oh, and got another tagging error. Has a silly % in the tags.

Like I said, I can't reproduce this problem. Could you send me the file in question?

Jebus.. don´t know if this is exactly the problem , but using 1.2.6, and a song from Soul Asylum called 99% , transcoding from FLAC to lame

Source FLAC Filename: 99%.flac
FLAC title tag (native tag): 99 %
Lame filename: 99%.mp3
Lame title tag: 99 (without the %)

I guess you should be able to reproduce this pretty easy...or I can send you the file :-)

Thanks!
Gonza

[Jebus]

Jebus.. don´t know if this is exactly the problem , but using 1.2.6, and a song from Soul Asylum called 99% , transcoding from FLAC to lame

Source FLAC Filename: 99%.flac
FLAC title tag (native tag): 99 %
Lame filename: 99%.mp3
Lame title tag: 99 (without the %)

I guess you should be able to reproduce this pretty easy...or I can send you the file :-)

Thanks!
Gonza

I'll try it tonight.

This post has been edited by Jebus: Jan 19 2007, 22:43

[Jebus]

Released version 1.2.7.

* Fixed that "%" bug. It was in the ID3 writer (MP3), not FLAC at all! No wonder I couldn't reproduce it DJED! (thanks gonza). The '%' and '\' characters are now escaped correctly in tag fields before feeding to id3.exe.
* A couple other minor fixes.

This post has been edited by Jebus: Jan 20 2007, 21:16

[Jebus]

There has been some discussion of the huge memory requirements needed to convert large libraries with album art. I'm working on some optimizations right now, but it'll take a few days. In the meantime, if you get out-of-memory errors, you might need to run smaller batches at a time.

[indybrett]

I wouldn't mind if there was an option to ignore image files