HMHB
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Post any hints and tips on SonicStage usage here so we can build up a useful help thread please. Please feel free to copy and paste any of your own previous posts into this thread.
ak47wong said:Consolidating double albums
For double CDs, many people have suggested appending "(Disc n)" to the end of the album title to prevent tracks from being mixed up between the two discs. That's fine, but I prefer to consolidate the two discs into one album so that I don't have to navigate between two "albums" for what is really a single musical work. Here's how:
1. Rip the two CDs to two separate albums with "(Disc n)" on the end the titles as usual, e.g. "Quadophenia (Disc 1)" and "Quadrophenia (Disc 2)"
2. Take note of the number of tracks in the first album (10 in this case)
3. Edit the second album and renumber the "CD Track" field for each track so that they follow on from the first album - in this case, renumbering from 1-7 to 11-17 (see tip on "Editing fields in place")
4. Remove the "(Disc n)" from the name of the second album
5. Remove the "(Disc n)" from the name of the first album
You should now have one album with the tracks in the correct order (from 1-17 in this case). If they're out of order, click on the "CD Track" column heading to sort the view by track number.
Watch out for the "Compilation" check box
Sometimes the "compilation" flag gets turned on for one disc and not the other. Tracks marked as "Track in a compilation album" will be put in a separate album from tracks without this flag, so make sure the same setting applies to all the tracks in an album.
Andrew
Sasso said:The ???? of the japanese should display properly once you transfer them to the HD5, they dont show in sonicstage.
I don't think there are any volume boosting programs for Atrac files.
Yes, it is easier, but it also doesn't work.drmoze said:In't it easier to use JB5's method of importing double albums (a couple of posts above yours) than this method, which requires tedious manual renumbering of every track?
ak47wong said:Yes, it is easier, but it also doesn't work.
Yeah, i tried it but the message I got with disc 2 didn't have an option to add tracks following those of disk 1. There were 2 other options instead. Looks like 'tedious' renumbering may be the only option.JB5 said:Ahem, Ermm - ak47 is correct it doesn't work.