Song titles instead of CDA files?

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Does anybody know if or how this could be achieved:

In DirectoryOpus, when opening a CD drive with an audio-CD in it, DirectoryOpus instead of the CDA items displays the song-titles downloaded from an Internet CD database. Then, when dragging one of the songs to any other folder, the song internally is ripped/encoded in a predefined format.

This would be fantastic!

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Someone could write a VFS plugin to do this, in theory, but properly and reliably reading CD audio (i.e. as well as Exact Audio Copy does it) is a bit of a black art.

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VFS plugin: The process of displaying the song-titles (ProcessA) and the process of the extraction of the binary cd-audio data (ProcessB) should be separated.

ProcessA (started automatically when CD-drive is opened in DO, or by background thread when audio-cd is inserted into drive):

  1. Get metadata like Track number, sizes, CD-Text, look in local or internet database if song-titles etc. are available, etc.
  2. If cd-drive is opened in DO: Display the above metadata as song-titles together with song-specific columns.

ProcessB (started by user when he drags a track from cd-drive to any local directory): Uses a free ripping program by command-line or internal routines.

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For the display of CDA track info... as Nudel says, it would require someone to write a plugin of some sort.

But you should be able to do the drag-n-drop-n-rip maneuver 'now' using a custom drop menu action... so if you have a command line ripper in mind, post some command line syntax for it and we can work out the commands required in Opus.

However, without some of the track info available (i.e. the 'plugin')... I would imagine to be really useful, you'd then have to find other command line tools that could 'lookup' the media information from the files 'after' you've ripped them to then help tag or rename the ripped files... I seem to recall there being apps out there that do things like this.

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FWIW, when I insert a CD, EAC launches and all I use it for is clicking a single button and then I'm done with it... I've got it setup to rip wav files to an 'Artist - Year - Album' folder and then I do all my encoding and album art retrieval quick and easy with Opus buttons...

I'm still using The Godfather (or lately MP3Tag.de) to tag my files... and have started and stopped work a few times on a tagging plugin, after asking the developers of both utilities mentioned above to expose either a command-line or api hook into their tagging engine... but they're not interested... :frowning:. I'll get around to it maybe when I take my vacation next month... but was really hopinh to avoid re-inventing the tagging wheel ~yet again~.

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