I've done some searching of the forum and not found complete and recent answers to this question.
I'm planning my music library and I've purchased a Mac Mini, a big HD and SB3 which will all be delivered tomorrow. I'm in the planning stage to convert my 800 or so CDs to HD file versions. I don't think I want WAV files, so I had planned on using iTunes and Apple Lossless files. Easy, complete, high quality and the only downside is that it is iTunes specific. Everyone on the PC side wants FLAC files which seem to be almost the same as ALAC only without the iTunes. It seems that you can add the Lame encoder to iTunes and make FLAC files on iTunes but it looks like a hack job that may not hold up. I read that the new version of iTunes broke iTunes_Lame. Folks think it will be fixed pretty quickly. I don't want to burn my CDs multiple times. So, what do you Mac guys think? Is being tied to iTunes on a Mac that bad a thing? Will I probably be able to move away from iTunes if I wish in the future by some new program to convert ALAC to FLAC? Should I not worry about it and just start ripping CDs in my new Mac Mini? (reminds me of -Dr Strangelove (or How I learned to stop worrying and love the iTunes)-) Thanks for the help. Paul Green PS Making all this 10 times more difficult is that I'm a PC guy with 22 years of PC experience and this is my first MAC experience. Gulp! -- creativepart ------------------------------------------------------------------------ creativepart's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10822 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33955 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
