SteveEast;138716 Wrote:
> That's only true if you scan directly. If you scan through iTunes you
> get all the tags.
>
> Steve.
Yes, and it works in practice, too. Some months - sorry, aeons - ago,
before I knew better and with a degree of intelligence which astounded
even me, I managed to delete my entire iTunes music file, (don't ask)
having completely failed to back up the several months of work this
represented (you may congratulate me later if you wish). The newly
released DataRescue 2 did a superb job in recovering the lot, including
all the iTunes labels and headings (harmonising and correcting the CDDB
version of which had made up most of the months of work).
Unfortunately, though, not those for my digitised vinyl. This left a
piled heap of musical snatches from des Pres to Dire Straits labelled
"File 1" to "File 4759" or something like that, to re-excavate, the
musical equivalent of the aftermath of a tornado at the archeological
finds warehouse for a cemetary dig. (Ever tried sorting out a few
dozen Gibbons pieces for viol consort from a few dozen Dowland pieces
for viol consort and putting them in the right order, without the
music? Hint: don't.) I'm not quite sure what I might have done to
attach tags to these files securely and so avoid the painful bit, but
certainly there was no problem with the work that iTunes had already
done painlessly for me the first time on the CDs.
Ripping directly into iTunes gives me the full range of labels and
headings (which is what I call them, because I never see the tags
themselves) that I need. In fact, it gives a much wider and more
versatile range than SlimServer will allow me to use ("composer," and
seperate entries (in version 7) for "album artist" and "track artist"
for instance) on the SB. It is immensely flexible, and extremely easy
(allowing for the shortcomings and inconsistencies of CDDB which, as
I've said, for classical music are considerable and annoying, although
that said, it's still better to have to relabel the odd 1965 Decca
recording of the Wiener Philharmonker from Japanese than to have to do
absolutely everything all the time). And, allowing for the
post-production smoothing and editing necessary for classical and early
music, it's all done from ripping to playing in one seamless process.
The only real disadvantage of which I've heard that really does bother
me is that I'm told that the error correction in iTunes does not match
up to some Windows only programmes, like Exact Audio Copy (I still
can't get this to work for me, but that is without doubt the astounding
intelligence in evidence again). That may affect the sound quality of
iTunes ripping generally (although I've not noticed any degradation in
my collection) but does, I'm told, does make it come off second best
when restoring a damaged or flawed discs so that it sounds better than
the original.
--
geraint smith
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