OK friends, I'm back in to ITunes because I have to have it for my
mp3 player. It is a true test of my love for my macbook. Right now
I'm thinkin bout going out to the fire escape and kicking it so I can
hear it rang! Clang! Bang! down three fleights of stairs to the
pavement.
Here's my current problem. I haven't found anything I really like for
ripping cd's, and I've got a few that I want to convert to mp3. I
figured since ITunes is already here and I have to librafy my albums
collection anyway to sync it with my IPod, I may as well give it a
shot and see if it flies at all.
I have run up against two problems. The first is that I can't figure
out how to tell ITunes not to put my cd rips in with the rest of my
music. This is rather important because before the albums go into my
collection, they need to have .sfv files added. Then they need to be
backed up to DVD and the dvd's need to be catalogged. The files
themselves may also need minor adjustments. For example, I always
remove words like A or The from artist names to make them sort into
the proper order. I think I could do all this even if the files are
placed into my library, but it would just be faster and easier to have
them in their own folder. I've looked through the import settings,
but I don't see a way to do this.
The second is the thing that's really got me. I only like high
bitrate natural stereo mp3's, and I've got the where with all to
indulge my tastes, or at least I did on the windows side. Now you
would think this would be straight forward.
Open Itunes.
Push command comma for the preferences.
VO to the import settings button and press vo space.
VO space on the encode using popup button and change it to mp3.
VO Space on the Setting popup button and change it to custome.
That much of it works just fine.
When I press enter on custome I get lovely options.
I set the stereo bit rate to 192, The sampling rate to 44100 hz, and
the channel seperation to normal.
When I hit the OK button I still have the encoder set to mp3 and the
setting option set to custome, but in the detales box it still says
160 kbps 44100 hz joint stereo.
I've tried pressing the OK button to save all the settings and when I
press command comma to get back to prefs it still says 160 kbps.
I've tried it with the smart encoding adjustments box checked and
unchecked.
I'd think it was a possible permition error, but the encoder setting
always stays at mp3 and the setting button always stas at custome.
It's only the actual custom settings that revert. The other strange
thing is that the smart encoding check box stays the way I put it. It
was checked when I tried this the first couple of times. Then I
unchecked it and it has stayed unchecked even as I re apply the
settings so I can detale my problem for this email.
Now I'm off to take a breather and scope some tunes or something. The
computer doesn't usually get me down, but ITunes is so damned
proprietary and useless, it gets the upper hand on me all the time.
I'll be greatful for any enlightenment you can give me, and maybe when
I settle down I'll have a quick google and see if I can find a deacent
ripping program for the mac. Need a catalogger too come to think of
it. I'm still using my old windows catalogging system. It's a very
nice catalogging system, but it is quite old and under developped, and
it's a bit out of the way popping up windows just to find out what
dvd's such and such an artist resides on.
Thanks guys,
erik burggraaf
Certified Technician
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