Importing cds
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As a refugee from win 10 and consequently iTunes, I have the latest iteration of Linux mint installed on my laptop as a tryout before installing it on my big pc, fundamental to this change is the need for a music server and player, I have a small collection of cds (300) predominantly classic choral all music which I have sung in and is close to my heart and is at present loaded into iTunes in a win 10 environment. I have done some research and came across clementines which I have tried, l managed to load some of my cds successfully, others all of the associated metadata was missing including track names, the rest I could put in manual but still quite a task. Further research suggested strawberry would be a more modern and better option. I found strawberry in the mint software library and it installed properly as far as I can tell and mint was bang up to date, so all should be good or so I thought. No matter what I try I don’t seem to be able to load my cds into strawberry as the new base for my music interests. Given the apparent lack of a detailed use guide I also can’t seem to get to grips with what I’ve done wrong , as this seems to me to be a basic function of any music repository/player.
I am now not only a refugee from win 10 but a very frustrated one, there are potentially 400 million people like me with perfectly adequate pcs who potentially are going to be left out in the cold by Microsoft, even if 10% go the Linux way that is a massive no of user who may help solve your money issues
Regards nigel
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@itunes-refuge WARNING: This will be a very unsatisfactory answer.
I'm an Apple/iTunes refugee now on Linux, where I found Strawberry. I got my music into Strawberry but I think I actually used another app called Rhythm Box. Strawberry wouldn't recognize my Apple Superdrive. I've since started ripping and syncing on my work macbook because I can't sync my iphone to Linux.
I told you it was an unsatisfactory answer.
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@mrbluebudo yes I tried something similar using Rythmbox unquestionably mor pain than gain, what troubles me clearly there are loads of technically ably folk on this site, and know one has popped up and said can’t be done from cds, reading from a number of sources I’m beginning to get the distinct impression that strawberry doesn’t have a cd ripper, which really surprises me as it’s pr says it’s clearly aimed at the classical end of the market which to me suggests it should be complete work based not song based ?. Common you guys put me out of my misery!!!!.
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Just wanted to weigh in here to see if I could supply any useful info. I have been a Linux user for a long time and have just switched to Strawberry from Guayadeque, which is no longer maintained. I have a CD collection of about 1000 discs so I like to be able to sort things to my tastes to make searching easier
I have never used my music player to rip - maybe since you are coming from IOS that might be a feature of iTunes which is something you are used to? I have no experience with IOS except for a brief ownership of an iPod that totally rearranged my mp3 collection. Apple has there own way of doing things...
I have always used another program to rip my CDs. A portion of my CD collection had a been ripped on Windows using Exact Audio Copy (I rip everything to FLAC) and later imported those files into Linux. Up until Strawberry it had been a bit of a mess, mostly due to genre tags being inconsistent and wonky. I have been updating my collection with the recent change to Strawberry and things have never been neater.
Here are some Linux tools that I use to rip - Asunder, RipperX. I don't mind ripping with a different program, it allows me edit and check the files before they get added to my main collection
The collection editor built into Strawberry is powerful (right click, edit track information...). You can batch edit entire artist folders as well as individual albums and tracks. There is also an auto complete function which uses some database (not sure which) to fill out all fields. This may help.
In the "re-grooming" of my CD collection I have also been using several Tag editors. Puddletag is awesome, Kid3-qt is also useful. Picard Music Brainz may help in look up and auto-fill a but it's not super intuitive. Again, as I am finishing up sorting my CD collection I am just using the editor in Strawberry.
I am a new user to Strawberry like you and I am very happy with it so far, it does a lot of things really well - check out Smart Playlists. The only thing I miss is browsing via cover art - in Windows I used Album Player and in Linux I used Guayadeque (Lollypop is another cover art based player but I had issues with genre tags that made it unusable).
Finally, just a word of caution: you may want to drag a few of your collection folders to the desktop to experiment before going at the full collection.
Hope this helps you get your music sorted.