Is there a way that I can Rip while I am offline and then tag later while I am online? I have downloaded the Freedb DB but most of the music I am ripping is not on there? Any ideas would be great!!!

If the freedb local database does not contain the CDs you want to rip, it probably won't find them in the Internet database either.

Anyways, which ripping software do you use? I know that MUSICMATCH Jukebox for example has such a tagging system. If you want to use EAC, CDex or whatever, you could try using a freedb compatible tagger, like MP3Tag.

The stuff I am ripping is pretty mainstream. Steel Pulse, The roots, etc. I am really surpirsed I cannot find them I know this stuff is avalible online though. Anyway I am able to rip about half my stuff online.



how does this help/work

much thanks for your help!

You install the tagger and when you are connected to the Internet, MP3Tag can do an online query and retreive the information for your files (using the freedb database).

gotcha thanks! So it works like Godfather and Tag&Rename?

Ill post the reults for others as I have seen alot of posts about this but not very many solutions. Maybe because its easy. Its a really long story why I have to rip offline. But the alsbums that are not showing up are classics like Bitches Brew, etc. Weird huh? The FreeDB database I downloaded is current....

Once I got back online I was able to connect tothe web and use tag and rename to tag the files. No problems at all worked like a charm.

I'm totally new, so please be gentle.

At the moment i'm not online at home where my mp3 exploits occur.

Can someone please give me the full details of how I can rip and encode offline but still get the stuff named automatically.
I'm confused over tagging, iding, naming, renaming etc...

A full step by step guide suitable for a true beginner, and pointers to the appropriate things to download are what I'm after.

Either that or a pointer to an already existing tutorial on such things, would be good.

Much appreaciated.

Cheers alexw

The easiest way I’ve found to do that, believe it or not, is to just rip with Windows Media Player 9 Lossless, connect to the net at home, listen to one song, and everything is automatically tagged. Then I convert the lossless files to AAC later.

no matter which tool you want to use to rip and encode, you can use a tagger to later tag all your stuff when you get online. i personally use mp3bookhelper, its probably the best mass tagger with plenty of functions and it has a very performant cddb function.

most of the time, you can search tag infos with disc id that mp3bookhelper will automatically identify properly.

http://mp3bookhelper.sourceforge.net/

Hi, I'm not very clear on that. Do you have to actually extract the whole of the database to a directory or can EAC work directly with the compressed file?

I tried once to extact it and it was taking ages and huge space.

Also which tagger would you guys suggest with local freedb support other than MP3Tag?

I beleive there are a few utilities which will retrieve the freedb information based on the contents of a cuesheet file. So, when you rip offline, you could also create the cuesheet file (or you could do it later), then when you get back online, you could run the utility and it will generate the disc ID based on the TOC contained within the the cuesheet file and pass it to freedb and get the info that way.

I've never actually tried any of these utilities since I am always online when I do my ripping anyway so I can't say which one is best or how well they work. One thing that immediately comes to mind is how would the utility know the file name of each corrrect track that it should apply the tags to since, generally, the cuesheet file would not have all the individual files names in it or, if it did, it would be something like track01.wav rather than track01.mp3. But, I'd assume that the authors of such utilities would have figured out an elegant way of dealing with that.

isnt what foobar2000's freedb component does?

Well,i got a dsl 24/7 so i ripencodetag in one step with eac.What you should do,and what i do when download whole albums of net in compressed formats like mpc,mp3,ogg..put all tracks in one folder,rightclick on folder.play with foobar,selectracks-rightclick on it and run cddb.It will tag all files