At 12:33 PM -0500 12/3/2008, Dan wrote: >At 7:02 AM -0800 12/3/2008, MIKO's Support, Design and Development >Services wrote:
Hey! MIKO! You there? ...Setting aside the dups issue for a bit. I figure once I get past the format issues, I'll revisit culling dups. >>1. Always import music while connected to the Internet so that >>"Get Info" metadata tags for the tracks has a better chance of >>being accessed > >Um.... when/how does it do this? I've seen a few album covers show >up suddenly. But none of the id3 tags have been modified (I've >verified this by sniffing the tracks with other tools before feeding >them to iTunes). Is this only when you import off a CD or DVD? >(ie, not when you Add an existing file?) I'm still confused here. The ID3 info is embedded in the track file, and that's where iTunes gets it originally. Are you saying that iTunes reaches out to the 'net to get additional information or ? Seems like does reach for album art now and then. Some have shown up that I swear weren't there before. >>4. Let iTunes copy all music into it's main folder- IF you can. > >I have the "copy" pref checked. Does that cover it, or are there >still instances when I can do an Add that will make it NOT copy >things in? Still worried about this. >>5. Keep all of your songs in only ONE FORMAT. Try not to get >>confused and convert songs twice or into several different formats! >>If you have to convert a song to mp3 or AAC so that iTunes "takes >>it", then delete the non-iTunes useable version (you can always >>keep a backup offline somewhere). If you need two file type >>versions for a song IN iTunes, accept that it will be there >>"appearing" like a duplicate. > >Yea. This is starting to drive me nutz. I have a lot of stuff in >aac but my cheapo mp3 player only does, well, mp3. I have no wish >to dump the aac stuff because it's higher quality and useful >elsewhere. There's a folder organization issue too. iTunes makes >Artist/Album/track and my mp3 player only does somename/Track (ie, >one level of folder) > >Is there a way to make iTunes mass-convert an album to mp3 AND push >the results to some other location? Right now, I use the "show in >finder" then manually pull things out. > >Once I pull things out... How do I tell iTunes to re-reconcile the >listing to match what's left in that artist's folder? Still frustrated about this. Now I've added some tracks in ogg format. They sound great as-is but when I convert them to AAC, they seem to loose half their treble. Today's mess... Some of my mp3 tracks are quite old; their volume levels are low etc. And I'm using a better set of speakers... Got tired of bumping the volume level of the speakers for one song, just to have the next blast my ears. Found a "Sound Check" setting in Preferences. Checked it. ack! iTunes quietly started sucking up 80% of my CPU, *even when not playing anything*! I finally figured out it was going thru each and every track, figuring out what sound levels to use. It took half an hour for it go thru my 800+ tracks. :\ - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
