Hi Sheldon - I'm still using your tube DAC - although now mostly connected to the Squeezebox. Good to see you here.
stokessd Wrote: > I'm actually really interested in this as well. My wife and I both have > iPODs and I've ripped my entire 800 CD's to MP3's and I'm planning on > doing it again to FLAC and putting my CD's away in the closet rather > than keeping them on shelves. The squeezebox is now going to be a key > component in my digital audio portion of my stereo. > > I do think this is an issue for many ipod carrying audiophiles. Or at > least semi-audiophiles. I am willing to take a little hit in sound > quality to have a huge library on the pod, but not for the home stereo. > So how are you others handling both FLAC and MP3 versions of the same > music? > I keep both sets of music (in my case Apple Lossless and AAC) in different directories, and all of them in iTunes. I use iTunes as a general tag editor & encoder. When I add new music I have to move some files to maintain the directory structure. I use smart playlists to make sure only the small files get onto the iPod. I only tell the SlimServer about the Lossless files, and tell it NOT to talk to iTunes. I found a workound to my MusicMagic problems - there are 'exclude' lists which can take wildcard filenames - so I can tell it to exclude the AAC directory. When I sync MM with iTunes I then only see the Lossless files - I can then use MM filters to give me unplayed playlists etc in SlimServer iTunesUpdate keeps iTunes up to date and I have some scripts to keep playcount info in sync between the AAC and ALE files. Only thing I don't have yet is the ability to crate MM playlists for the iPod - although I could do this with a 'translate playlist from ALE to AAC' script when I have time. Phew! -- GregD ------------------------------------------------------------------------ GregD's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=248 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19011 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
