Would someone please switch on the bulb for a poor unenlightened iTunes user (that's me) and explain (preferably in words of no more than two syllables and something approaching every day English!):
1. what's so bad about it? 2. How does one do what it does on a Mac, including its compatibility with iPods (and no, I'm not talking MP3 nor yet AAC. I play lossless on my iPod through the best headphones I can afford/carry at the time) preferably in a single easy-to-swallow pill, without committing whatever heinous crimes are the answer to (1)? Use of Parallels/VMFusionWare etc etc allowed! I've been using iTunes for about six years, with great delight, in what I suspect is blissful ignorance, and I really would like to know the answer to both of these. I've looked at Max, tried EAC on Windows (ugh to both EAC and Windows, not to mention the database that Max uses - MusicBrainz - which seems to me to be just about useless, certainly for classical), but have never ventured into specialist tagging software. That's partly because by the time I've ripped a track with EAC, for instance, I'm already sobbing with boredom about the whole idea, and partly because there seems so little point when iTunes rips to ALAC and AIFF very efficiently, and makes the tagging so incredibly easy (although it would be nice to be able to rip to both simultaneously or consecutively and place the resulting files into different iTunes libraries). Would switching from iTunes revolutionise my ripping and tagging and - above all - listening without introducing hours of terminal, oakum-picking tedium and grief? How? If there's any feeling that this is off the OP's topic, incidentally, then my apologies. Quite happy to move to a new thread. On 28 Nov 2009, at 18:42, Michael Herger wrote: >>> However, the world of squeezebox is heavily skewed towards pc. > > Hmm... famous (almost) first words when I started my work at Logitech: > > "do you have a Mac?" > "no" > "we have to fix this" > >> That's not really fair - the problem is that up until now no-one has >> made a decent mac ripper/tagger/manager because of the dominance of >> iTunes. > > I must say that I was confused at first, about the lack of tagging software. > I'm still not sure there's anything which would come close to mp3tag on the > Mac. Luckily enough I'm not religious about my choice of OS. I'll have some > Windows ready in a VM for those moments when I want to tweak some tags... > > -- > > Michael > _______________________________________________ > discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
