11-13-2022, 10:42 PM
(11-13-2022, 02:59 AM)Tim Curtis Wrote: 1. Use Fat32 partition format for compatibility between Linux and Mac including permissions, time stamps etc. Performance is excellent.
2. Standard dir structure is artist/album/tracks
3. Cue formats for example flac/cue are treated as a virtual directory and so the dir structure in #2 where the one track is actually a file containing the whole album + a cue sheet laying out the tracks will cause extra directories to appear in Library Folder view. Tag and Album views will be ok though.
4. Cover art can be embedded in the tracks (mp3, flac and mp4 formats only) or it can be an image file (jpg or png) in the directory containing the tracks. Use the standard file name cover.jpg/png. Try to have nice resolution covers 600x600px or higher. Use the Prefs setting "Library | Thumbnail resolution"
Your best bet for trouble free music enjoyment is to rip the CD's to individual FLAC tracks in an artist/album/track directory structure with either embedded cover or a cover image file in the album dir.
Metadata tags are important. Typically set AlbumArtist = Artist and for compilation albums set AlbumArtist to the string "Various Artists".
The directories /mnt/NAS and /mnt/SDCARD are placeholder root directories. They won't appear in any of the Library views (Folder, Tag, Album) unless they contain music files. moOde ships with /mnt/SDCard/Stereo Test/LRMonoPhase4.flac
FAT32 seems to be the only viable option for me, unless I want to plug the player’s drive into the Mac while it’s running Ubuntu under Virtualbox. If it gave me a speed boost, I’d consider it, but it’s a Pi 3, so the drive’ll manage USB 2.0 speeds at best.
As for format, the FLAC files I’ve ripped are mainly tag-free, since the CUE files contain all of that data. However, I can embed it during transcoding to single files.
Pluses for the one file per album FLAC are reduced fragmentation (although some of my Super Deluxe Editions may have to be split up to stay below 4GB) and liking the readability of CUE files. Oh, and I’ve got five or six CDs with the pre-emphasis flag - the rips of those are unadjusted but again, that can be fixed during transcoding. Actually, most of the titles with pre-emphasis that I’ve got are on the old side, in several cases I’ve got more recent versions, but several of those are casualties of the loudness war. I’m generally backing up all pressings of an album that I’ve got (five, in one case) but the player drive is going to get only the best version for each title.
Oh, one other small question - I see that it’s not recommended to do anything with configuration directly, presumably because it’ll get overwritten by the UI. For something like configuring the activation temperature of the case fan, which I have to do in raspi-config, will that part of the configuration be safe?
