I've found SS and iTunes integrate pretty nicely together. iTunes generally orders things by Artist->Album but once you're comfortable with that it becomes quite natural to use and you'll very rarely take notice of the files anymore. I find it very easy to use as a tag manager and have become very at home with the iTunes interface. Artwork can be an issue as Apple recently changed the way iTunes stores artwork and this means it wont often show-up via SS. There are scripts out there that you can run to rectify this. Only things it doesn't like format-wise are OGG and FLAC (although I believe there is a codec for OGG, and FLAC files can be converted on OSX to AIFF pretty easily). For lossless stick with AIFF or Apple Lossless.
But in general, for importing, converting and managing music files, iTunes is a top class app. SS will pick up new additions automatically although if I'm in a hurry to listen to something I'll do a quick re-scan of new items and it takes only a short while to get updated on the server-side. I've also found all the plugins I use (AlienBBC, XMRadio, LastFM, and Song Scanner) all work flawlessly. Good luck! -- GeeZa ------------------------------------------------------------------------ GeeZa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5563 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32462 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
