o album -- [no] artist -- title.mpc
o artist -- album -- [no] title.mpc
o artist/album -- [no] title.mpc
o artist/album/[no] title.mpc
o album -- no -- artist -- title.mpc
o artist -- album -- no -- title.mpc
o artist/album -- no -- title.mpc
o artist/album/no -- title.mpc
The “/” represents a directory (or folder) separator.
Now, as it happens, I have used the convention:
o artist(Y) Albumartist - album – no - title.mpc
for encoding about 300 CDs. This means that replaygain.exe will still work recursively on each sub-folder, but the album gain value will be calculated on the whole list of files, instead of grouping them by album. I must rename my files using the “ -– “ item separator to get it to work properly, or work on each sub-folder manually.
This got me to thinking why use the " -- " separator when most files shared on the internet seem to use the " - " separator, which uses less space anyway.
Frank Klemm summarises his file naming rules as follows (edited):
QUOTE
File Naming:
Evelyn Glennie/Drumming (1996)/[01] Entrances.mpc
Evelyn Glennie/Drumming (1996)/[02] Halasana.mpc
Evelyn Glennie/Drumming (1996)/[03] Sorbet No. 1%3A Latin American Interlude.mpc
Evelyn Glennie/Drumming (1996)/[04] Bongo-O.mpc
Evelyn Glennie/Drumming (1996)/[05] Sorbet No. 2%3A Chinese Cymbals.mpc
\"/\" stands for the directory separator. One software house on this planet
writes this in mirror writing ;-)
Some of my rules are:
Spaces can be replaced by '_' (not done here)
Special chars which make trouble can be replaced by %XX, where XX is the hexadecimal represention ( <|>*?{}/\" ... )
Characters outside ISO-8859-1 (polish, czech, russian, korean, chinese, japanese, ...) can be written as %00XXXX where XXXX is the code in ISO-10464
Items can be divided by \" -- \" or \"/\" (Windows \"\")
Title number can also be written as \" -- [XX] \" instead of \" -- XX -- \", this makes less trouble with title names like \"23\".
If after the title number are
0 items: This is a pre track you can often find on CDs (and which sometimes also is not digital zero)
1 item: The title follows
2 items: The artist and the title follows
Before the title number you find the album.
If there is no artist given after the title, before the album you can find the artist.
The album can be followed by \" (19XX)\" or \" (200X)\" to describe the year
where the album was published.
Note that also:
Evelyn Glennie -- Drumming (1996) -- [01] Entrances.mpc
Evelyn Glennie -- Drumming (1996) -- [02] Halasana.mpc
Evelyn Glennie -- Drumming (1996) -- [03] Sorbet No. 1%3A Latin American Interlude.mpc
Evelyn Glennie -- Drumming (1996) -- [04] Bongo-O.mpc
Evelyn Glennie -- Drumming (1996) -- [05] Sorbet No. 2%3A Chinese Cymbals.mpc
would be possible if MS would allow more than 64 characters for file
names on CDs (the inventor of this 64 char limit should be stoned}.
Rockridge and HFS allows up to 255 chars, but this can't be read under
Windows although it is an ISO standard.
Evelyn Glennie/Drumming (1996)/[01] Entrances.mpc
Evelyn Glennie/Drumming (1996)/[02] Halasana.mpc
Evelyn Glennie/Drumming (1996)/[03] Sorbet No. 1%3A Latin American Interlude.mpc
Evelyn Glennie/Drumming (1996)/[04] Bongo-O.mpc
Evelyn Glennie/Drumming (1996)/[05] Sorbet No. 2%3A Chinese Cymbals.mpc
\"/\" stands for the directory separator. One software house on this planet
writes this in mirror writing ;-)
Some of my rules are:
Spaces can be replaced by '_' (not done here)
Special chars which make trouble can be replaced by %XX, where XX is the hexadecimal represention ( <|>*?{}/\" ... )
Characters outside ISO-8859-1 (polish, czech, russian, korean, chinese, japanese, ...) can be written as %00XXXX where XXXX is the code in ISO-10464
Items can be divided by \" -- \" or \"/\" (Windows \"\")
Title number can also be written as \" -- [XX] \" instead of \" -- XX -- \", this makes less trouble with title names like \"23\".
If after the title number are
0 items: This is a pre track you can often find on CDs (and which sometimes also is not digital zero)
1 item: The title follows
2 items: The artist and the title follows
Before the title number you find the album.
If there is no artist given after the title, before the album you can find the artist.
The album can be followed by \" (19XX)\" or \" (200X)\" to describe the year
where the album was published.
Note that also:
Evelyn Glennie -- Drumming (1996) -- [01] Entrances.mpc
Evelyn Glennie -- Drumming (1996) -- [02] Halasana.mpc
Evelyn Glennie -- Drumming (1996) -- [03] Sorbet No. 1%3A Latin American Interlude.mpc
Evelyn Glennie -- Drumming (1996) -- [04] Bongo-O.mpc
Evelyn Glennie -- Drumming (1996) -- [05] Sorbet No. 2%3A Chinese Cymbals.mpc
would be possible if MS would allow more than 64 characters for file
names on CDs (the inventor of this 64 char limit should be stoned}.
Rockridge and HFS allows up to 255 chars, but this can't be read under
Windows although it is an ISO standard.
Some food for thought here.
. If you want to use the batch files I pasted in you'll have to seperate albums into their own directories. But as long as the albums are seperated out, the files don't have to follow Frank's naming conventions. This is what my problem was, and what led me to make the bat files.
