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Feature request: "rip as single file"
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--- Quote from: lendall on August 02, 2015, 01:30:54 pm ---Thanks for all of these comments. I do use the MC tagging features, which are great. I have created some custom tagging fields of my own and set them to be encoded inside the tracks. I have become slightly sophisticated about these things, largely thanks to help I have received here in the support forum.
But my main point remains: 90% of the the time I would prefer to have all movements of a classical piece in a single file.
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My two cents worth. And again, thanks to MC for the great tagging and other features which vastly assist in the organization of my ever-expanding music library.
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I have not found a need for joining all the tracks on a CD for playback on a PC. I usually select a sub_genre then a Composer, then a Work Name, then an Artist. If I have several versions, I select a version. At that point, I have a list og the tracks making up the performance. The file list is sorted by Composer, then Work Name, then Artist, then Track #. If I click on play, the tracks are played in correct order.
I do find uses for laying single movements of a work. Sometimes I'll listen to a performance and then wonder "How did some other artist perform the last movement?" A couple of clicks takes me to that other performance and I right-click on the file with the last movement and choose play.
Your arguments reflect a lack of understanding of MC. I think that all the people who responded in this thread listen to entire works most of the time and we do it without any problems.
I did have some problems to solve in putting a subset of my collection onto a 80 GB iPod (a model with a click wheel just before the classic.) That iPod didn't provide a fully effective view for browsing and selecting classical music. The solution was to join the tracks for a work and to place Composer, work name and artist in tags in a special way that fit the iPods limitations.
I used Foobar2000 to join the tracks in a work. It did not transfer tag information so I had to re-tag the files. Since i intended to place a large subset of the files on my iPod once and leave it alone, this was an acceptable one-time effort. I have since copied those files onto a USB stick also for use in my car.
I think that an option to join tracks would be more useful that a rip to a single file option.
I'd recommend that you go slow with ripping entire CDs to a single file. (For starters, classical CDs often have more than one work. A decent implementation would allow you to specify which tracks to combine.) I can't imagione that you would want to permanently combine several works into one file. MC has lots of powerful features to accomplish what you want to do. You clearly don't fully understand all the relevant features yet.
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