There is no roadmap defined, it has to evolve from requests like yours. Format configuration is available under the hood but the question will be how it will fit in the extension setup dialog.
Is there any specific format that you have in mind?
Well the usual Artist - Albumname, but I also add the quality of music and an indicator to show wether I ripped the music from cd or if I downloaded the album. So for self ripped albums the folder name would be in the folowing format: “Artist - Albumname [44-16🎵]”. And file format would be “songnumber - artistname - songname”.
@Jan_Koudijs is there a possibility for me to modify a file in order to alter the naming format? Or would this be too complicated and subjective to change once a new update is pushed?
The naming format is stored in the whipper.conf file which in turn is stored in the whipper volume. If you really want to tinker with this, it can be done by editing the file directly. Stop the CD Ripper extension, open a console on your Raspberry Pi and edit the file with a command like this:
What you are interested in are the track_template and disk_template. The possible options are described in the help of the whipper cd rip command:
Tracks are named according to the track template, filling in the variables
and adding the file extension. Variables exclusive to the track template are:
- %t: track number
- %a: track artist
- %n: track title
- %s: track sort name
Disc files (.cue, .log, .m3u) are named according to the disc template,
filling in the variables and adding the file extension. Variables for both
disc and track template are:
- %A: album artist
- %S: album sort name
- %d: disc title
- %y: release year
- %r: release type, lowercase
- %R: Release type, normal case
- %x: audio extension, lowercase
- %X: audio extension, uppercase
These edits will survive an update of the extension.
Awesome! Worked! I have no real knowledge of linux systems. It just know how to get my way around with detailed tutorials. Your help is tremendously appreciated!
When I give the order to start ripping it gets stuck in: “Status: CD ripping in preparation…” It simply won’t start ripping.
As soon as I remove the “♫” character in the whipper.conf file it will immediately start ripping. So the reason it gets stuck seems obvious. My question; is there a way I can fix this and let the cd-ripper successfully create a folder name with the “♫” character in it? This would be much appreciated as my music library consists of “♫” and “♪” indicators in their directory names .
Decided to give up on this project because of the weird bugs arising when modifying the template in the whipper.conf file. As long as it remains untouched the ripper will produce Flac and log files in the default directory template. As soon as you start modifying this template the ripper will create the desired folders but simply won’t push Flac and log files to the folder.
@Jan_Koudijs thanks for your time helping me out. Oh and unfortunately the auto eject doesn’t seem to work with my apple superdrive.
Unfortunately it is. You have created artist/album/songs structure. If I alter this to artist - album/songs (using the same tags no special characters) it only creates the folder with inside a folder named artist - album.cue, but no flac And log files are being placed in these folders.
How can I add extensions that aren’t listed in the extension manager? Danny has just made an extension for Devialet Phantom and I don’t know where to save it so the extension manager recognises it.
Sorry for being a bit impatient. Have you managed to add the extension to the repository or is there a how to which shows the steps for manually installing the extension on Win 10?