dB poweramp files.

Posted by: JohnL on 05 March 2017

Hi all,

been ripping CDs for a couple of years via dB to QNAP NAS feeding my NDX. The rips go into artists folders which can then be opened to show individual albums in the folder. All fine and well. However, I recently upgraded to Windows 10 (from 7) which has lost all my PC settings including dB. I've reinstated the naming protocol to what I thought it was but now rips are not going into artist folders but are showing on the NAS/PC as individual tracks !!!. Can any dB users out there offer any help ??.

many thanks

John

Posted on: 05 March 2017 by fatcat

John

The box “naming” should be set to (Save in Dynamic Artist Folder). If it doesn’t click set, default, OK.

Hopefully that should sort it.

Posted on: 07 March 2017 by JohnL

Hi Fatcat thanks for your reply. It didn't like Dynamic Artist Folder either (I'm still using Twonky which is a bit "special") Turns out the Windows 10 upgrade had wiped the backslashes previously in the naming box. Put those back and all is well.

Streaming Audio eh, should be called Screaming Audio sometimes.

Many thanks

John

Posted on: 07 March 2017 by SamS

Looks like you sorted it - I had problems with this a long time ago as well and struggled to find the default settings which are helpful as they deal with various artists compilations well, by placing the specific artists name in with the track number and song title. If it is a single artist album then you just get track number and song within Album folder; within Album Artist folder.

Here is the default naming strategy for reference:

"CD Ripper Default Naming:

    [IFVALUE]album artist,[album artist],[IFCOMP]Various Artists[][IF!COMP][artist][][]\[album]\[track] [artist] - [title]

    The first folder is the album artist if present, for no album artist, if a compilation Various Artists is the folder name, otherwise the artist is used.
    The next folder is album name. The filename is track number, artist name - title. "

and the help page this comes from:

https://www.dbpoweramp.com/help/dmc/Naming.htm