I know others decry iTunes and ALAC as not bit perfect, but I'm with CF... I use iTunes to rip to ALAC with error correction turned on. I clean the CDs before ripping and since these CD have all been in my home, not used in a car or used by my 20 year old daughter they are virtually scratch and blemish free.
I passed Dylan in my 800+ CD collection and I'm on Grateful Dead today. I work at home on a PC. I rip in iTunes to ALAC in a Mac Mini that sits beside me. I rip 5 CDs in in about 30 mins or so and then check them in iTunes to insure that the right album art and tagging has taken place. About 5% of the time iTunes will put the wrong album art with a CD -- usually just the wrong photo (like a Remastered edition with a different cover) -- and I have to manually convert Live CDs to "gapless" and correct a few "complilation" designations. Out of the first 100 CD iTunes made 6 CDs complilations that aren't. On CDs that iTunes can't get art work I use Amazon. That slows me down a bit, but it's not all that often. I can get as many as 40 CDs ripped per day while I'm working. Working with a Mac and iTunes it's pretty easy. One day I may convert my ALAC files to FLAC files with the "Max" program that runs on Macs. -- creativepart ------------------------------------- Great Guitar Websites: www.telecaster.com | www.strat-talk.com | www.gibson-talk.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ creativepart's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10822 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34156 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
