> Paul, you hit the nail on the head. I wanted to know if I could FTP all my
> Mp3's into the unit then ask it to rebuild the database using the id3 tags.
> This is then used to do searches by artist, album, track name, track number,
> etc ...
I finally got so frustrated in uploading my music that I came up with a
solution. This isn't any fault of the empeg at all, it's just that I have
stuff all over the place, some of it has track info in the name, some in
the ID3, some has none, some I ripped with access to CDDB, freedb or
cdinfo, which all have differing databases, and some of my CDs aren't
in any of them. The problems are endless. Anyway here's my solution:
I did a find for all files on my disks that are bigger than 1MB and have
an MPEG magic, then made a symlink to /music/`md5 of first 100KB`. I
then compiled
rsync, started pppd on the empeg,
then rsync'd all my MP3s to the empeg. I then wrote a script to generate a
set of FIDs for the empeg-car playlist, unattached items, and a misc playlist
containing all the MP3s. Deleted /drive0/var/* and then forced database
recreation with emptool -d.
So what does that achieve?
It seperates the tasks of uploading, ID3 labelling and playlist creation.
I can write another script that will generate the track info from the ID3
and organise into playlists. I can do that at any time.
If the track doesn't have an ID3 and I add it later, rsync will just transfer
the additional data at the end of the file.
I can move MP3s around on my PC, and rename them, since the MD5 of the first
100KB will stay the same, meaning I won't have to ever transfer an MP3 twice.
This is all on linux and probably won't make sense if you're used to windows.
Paul