GuyManning;639733 Wrote: > Thanks for the advise > > Just so as I fully understand... > Do you just point the SQ Server software at a folder where you keep > your audio files? > > How do you organise the Artists/Albums/Other tag info etc? > Do you rip/import into iTunes to tag and catalogue etc. in there but > then NOT use it as the import source for Squeezebox? ie. simply point > at the repository folder? > > What are the integration issues you mentioned? > > What software do you use to convert FLAC to Apple Lossless? (I presume > that once converted, these CAN be imported into iTunes for tagging > etc.)
Yes, just point to the music folder. For me (and I do know others disagree) iTunes works fine for ripping to Apple Lossless and I have a separate library converted to AAC for the pods. I know I could get dbpoweramp to do direct conversions to ALAC from FLAC, but I go about it the long way, by converting to WAV then converting the WAV files back to ALAC in iTunes. Yes I know it's a bit cumbersome, but it works for me. Heck now that iTunes actually will export M3U playlists (an older version I have on an old computer doesn't) I can use iTunes to create playlists to save into the playlist folder for Squeezebox Server. I'm comfortable with my system and it works for me, so play around and find what works for you. One of the issues I had with iTunes integration with Squeezebox Server was that I was having issues with A LOT of iTunes temp files being created and corrupting my iTunes database. Now I'm not sure if it was becasue I was using a external hard drive along with doing stuff with iTunes open while Squeezebox Server did auto re-scaning of the database, or what the issue was. I'm not that technical, all I knew is the longer I used it the more issues I was starting to have. So I quit using the iTunes integration and everything worked much better. Also I had this weird problem of a couple of albums showing up twice in Squeezebox Server, which drove me nuts trying to figure out why. I tried changing the album name, re-ripping on a different machine and importing, but nothing would get rid of the dupicates. I didn't have any playlists at that point, so I knew it wasn't that kind of an issue. I think for some reason it didn't get cleared from the iTunes database and so Squeezebox Server kept picking it up, but like I said I'm not that technical, so I don't know for sure. Also the file totals never matched while using iTunes integration, I don't know why, but as soon as I quit the iTunes integration, everything was perfect. I also keep a couple of clones of my library, so if anything goes wrong with the hard drives, I can just plug in a new one and I'm up and going. Which you should do no matter what way you rip or collect your music. -- rayman1701 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ rayman1701's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=41326 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32734 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
