lreinstein;285806 Wrote: > Another thing--- I will be storing very large music files on a central > hard drive which will be on the network connected to the Apple Time > Capsule. I want to keep a seperate smaller library of compressed (MP3) > files direcly on my Macbook...to synch with my IPOD through ITUNES. Can > I use iTunes for both libraries from the same Mac? Or will it get > confused? THat is why i thought i should use different software. > > Larry
I have all of my Apple lossless files on an external 500GB drive connected to my server (Mac MINI). When I rip new material, I mount that drive over the network to my G5 (exactly how you'd do it) and rip using iTunes looking at that LIBRARY. I have an iTunes plug-in called MultiTunes which allows for multiple libraries. Ripping to lossless iTunes looks at the Mac MINI drive. When I want to re-encode to a lossy format for my iPod I have created a library on the G5 that does the syncing. I import tunes from the LOSSLESS library and re-encode them, basically doing what you want, but this allows me to pick the tunes I want to re-encode without having to keep two separate libararies of EVERYTHING, whether I want it or not. Again, I don't have any issues with Slim playing Apple's format. I'm all for the 'open-sourceness' of FLAC, but it wasn't built with the Mac in mind, and MAX just doesn't handle tagging as easily as iTunes does. Try them both...YMMV. -- Eric Seaberg Eric Seaberg - San Diego [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Seaberg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7896 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=45595 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
