Hi all.

I just downloaded and installed foobar2000 so I could transfer my cd collection to my studio computer.

I'm using ASIO to an RME fireface with 24 bit FLAC in winxpsp2.

The sound is great, no problems with ASIO.

The big issue for me is album and track information. When I rip it's not coming through even on cds known to display track info on my cd player.

I'm familiar with the internet search plug ins, but hope to keep the studio computer off internet.

Am I missing something here? Manually typing all that stuff in will take me eons!

Thanks,

Les

Are you ripping the CD through foobar, i.e from Open Audio CD ... -> Rip? If so press the lookup button.

That will lookup cd infos on the internet... so if he keeps his pc offline it's just no option. And I don't know any offline option.

Oh I see, think I miss read. No I don't think that there is a way to get CD-TEXT from the disc into foobar. I think there may be some rippers that can however, EAC? dbpoweramp? Don't know off hand.

I think there's about 800 different implementations of CD text, and most of them are proprietary.

here's a list of software which supports the Redbook standard:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-TEXT

You can try this.

I was hoping to keep the studio computer off the internet, yeah. It kinda has it's hands full with 36 24 bit i/o.

I know some of the cds have track info because it comes up on my other cd player. Foobar ought to see it.

I wonder If I could run an instance of foobar on the internet connected office computer and somehow get the information to the studio computer.

Les

Thanks, guys. I did download the text reader. I assumed it was a component dll (foo_ prefix) so I put it in the component directory and restarted. Selected tracks and right clicked per directions. No dialog box came up...nothing.
Bleh.

But i'll have to say the sound I am getting is great. I have a fairly high end sony es player, but using the top 16 bits of the 24 bit RME interface is sounding just super. Better? Not sure there, but I am hearing some more stuff now. I think it's good stuff.

Les

When looking up the data on the internet, foobar2k creates a 'cddb' folder (either in appdata profile folder or foobar2k installation folder - depends on which option you chose in foobar preferences for storing your profile)
So it would be possible to copy that folder to the offline computer... but it's not a nice way to do.

it seems like foo_cdtext only adds a playlist context menu entry: tagging > cd-text

callisto

When looking up the data on the internet, foobar2k creates a 'cddb' folder (either in appdata profile folder or foobar2k installation folder - depends on which option you chose in foobar preferences for storing your profile)
So it would be possible to copy that folder to the offline computer... but it's not a nice way to do.

it seems like foo_cdtext only adds a playlist context menu entry: tagging > cd-text

callisto
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Thanks callisto. Might be more trouble than it's worth, huh?

Well, with most of my cds even on the other player It would be just "track one, track two, etc. I would have to have the jewel box handy to see what was on there.

It's nice to have the information, but it looks like I may be SOL on not having to do typing.

I have just found another issue with some old cds. Seems foobar does not read the pre-emphasis /de-emphasis flag on the cd and is going to have screwed up frequency balance in the rip. Looking into that one too.

Les