M3u -> Sonicsuck Cddb Database Or Cdplayer.ini ?

[MAVickers]

I'm finding myself increasingly having to use ye olde m3u -> Nero -> ImageDrive -> SimpleBurner (SB) or SonicSuck (SS) solution for a variety of reasons. First it was just that some of my MP3s were converting over as silence. Now I'm crashing SS with an alarming amount of regularity. What a POS.

Using the round-a-bout solution generally requires that you retype the track information in either of those software packages after conversion - either in the library or right in the MD itself. What I'm wondering is if either of the two solutions exist:

1) Does SS or SB consult cdplayer.ini? If so, is there a utility that can read the ID3s out of an M3U list and create a corresponding CD entry in cdplayer.ini?

2) I doubt that SS or SB consult cdplayer.ini on lookup, so does a similar utility exist for local CDDB databases, and is there a way to point it specifically at the database that the Sony products use? M3U2SBurner used to pull this trick off with SimpleBurner 1.x, but doesn't work with 2.0 (yet).

Like most people I have several (like, 28) gigs of MP3s and I'm not feeling like re-ripping from my CD collection.

Thanks for your help.

[dex Otaku]

1) AFAIK neither consults cdplayer.ini. Why would they? They have CDDB support, and they use their own database for metadata.

2) No idea about this.

I find [when forced to use the imagedrive solution] this only becomes a problem when you're not doing whole albums in the same order as the original CD had. SB and SS should both see a compilation that's identical or near-identical to an original album [i.e. more tracks added to the end is okay, anything else isn't] and have CDDB recognise it.

Suggestion:

http://mp3bookhelper.sourceforge.net/modul...?name=Downloads

SS has really poor id3 support. I wrote anohter post here on this topic alone.. I think. It's here somewhere.

At any rate, sometimes the best you can do is remove the original tags and completely rewrite them. MP3BookHelper has support for FreedB built in that will recognise whole albums and rewrite tags according to your preferences.

This only helps, of course, in the case that the only thing wrong with the mp3s is that the tags are sketchy.

All in all, unless you have a really slow computer, it's faster to re-rip your CDs than it is to worry about making disc images or rewriting tags. It only takes 4-6 minutes for me to rip a 70-80 minute CD in SS using HiSP encoding. That's -WAY- less time than it takes to make a disc image, mount it, record it with SS or SB, and then have to rename all the tracks if needs be.

[Christopher]

SS has really poor id3 support.

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In what sense?