Yet another vote for dbPowerAmp and MP3Tag. As to whether you want to leave your current iTunes files in AAC or convert, IMO depends... FLAC, PCM (Wav), and MP3 are decoded on the player. That means that the server is lightly loaded when handling these formats (not as simple as 'just pass the data through' but pretty close). Good if you're running a low-power server or a NAS. I dunno if the SongScanner works (or works well) with anything but these three 'native' formats. Anyone know?
If you have to convert your files when you get them out of iTunes, then FLAC is a fine choice. There'll be no further loss in converting (wasted space, but storage is cheap). There will be further loss if you then convert those FLACs into a lossy format, so save the AACs, and mark the FLACs somehow. As far as ripping 200 CDs, dbPoweramp's got a batch ripper. I've used it to rip a couple thousand CDs (big project!). I'd suggest, if you have a laptop with a CD reader, use that; put it somewhere where you're going to be doing something else, like watching a movie, and just feed it a new CD when it sticks its tongue out at you. Of course, if you use the batch ripper, tags won't necessarily be just right, so I'd rip to just FLAC, fix-up tags, and then use the dpPoweramp converter converter (free with dbPA, and maybe free by itself) to convert to whatever other format you want -- bobkoure ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bobkoure's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14646 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88774 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
