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[IvanDobsky]

Hi - there will be a bit of a learning curve, but stick with it and you’ll end up with a superb digital collection well tagged and decent art. You won’t just use it in the car as you’ll realise you have ALL your music in one place for playing in the house too.

There is no “one way” to do this. So other people will throw in other ideas.

Here is a random thread where another person asked a similar question. That should get you going. Come back and ask more details as you trip over steps.

Is there a newbie instructable?

Just installed and scanned my first CD with Picard and have yet to discover what this software is actually supposed to do for me. I’ve ripped the CD using EAC and, of course, it all comes in with no metadata. I had hoped that this software would find metadata and add it to my music, but so far everything is pretty much greyed out and unusable. What is this app supposed to actually do?

Here is what I do:

MB doesn’t do your ripping. You want something like EAC ( http://exactaudiocopy.de/ ) with the Cuetools ( CTDB EAC Plugin - CUETools ) plugin to get you going there. That will rip the CD to FLAC (or MP3). Cuetools plugin will lookup the CDs you have at MB and let you fill in the tags that way.

Next step is pass the digital files through Picard to get the perfect tags. The partial tags added by EAC will now be supplemented with more details and the important MBID

Early on you will need to do some tests with the Toyota to see how “standard” it is:

• Can it play FLAC? Or are you sticking to MP3?
• Can it read the artist name correctly if there is a " feat. " in there?
• Can it get the track numbers right?
• Does it get confused with multi-disk releases?

All issues I have see with car media players.

Pick a few simple disks to experiment with first. once you get the hang of ripping those, and worked out the detail levels you need, you’ll soon get into a faster and faster ripping routine.