Hi Scott, His library is about 400 cd's right now, call it 4800 or so songs, and of course it's 50-70 gb or so because they are losslessly ripped. All the stuff is showing up properly, and we can play any of the songs that are already ripped I guess it wouldn't cost anything to try making a new library though and see if they will import to that.
I've got about 2000 albumns in my itunes library and it's about 80 gb. I don't generally have a problem, but then I don't use it for anything except syncing to my IPod, and even that much exposure is beginning to ware on me. We'll try this out as soon as the computer gets back and thanks for the post. Best, erik burggraaf A+ sertified technician and user support consultant. Phone: 888-255-5194 Email: [email protected] On 3-Mar-09, at 4:40 PM, Scott Howell wrote: > > Eric, just curious, how many did he rip before iTunes had a cow. How > many songs did this amount to and how much space. I have about 2800 > some odd songs running at about 35Gb and I know others have even > larger libraries than that. I am not aware of a limit, but it is > possible there is. I doubt 400 CDs would be enough to kill iTunes. I > wonder if the database got hosed perhaps. > > On Mar 3, 2009, at 5:03 PM, erik burggraaf wrote: > >> >> Hi guys, >> >> A client of mine got a mac to use as a senterpiece of his music >> system. His first order of business was to rip his massive cd >> collection into apple lossless .m4a format onto a 1 tb network hard >> drive, and this he set out to do with a vengeance. About 400 cd's >> in, >> ITunes suddenly refused to import any more cd's. He has it coming up >> and asking if he wants to play or import. Now when he chooses import >> the disc just sits there. When he chooses play the cd plays just >> fine. He's taken the machine into the apple store and they are >> replacing the optical drive, but I suspect this is a software >> problem, >> and both of us are thinking that when the machine comes back it will >> still refuse to import cd's, though it will play them just fine. >> >> Naturally I suggested installing max, and this we did. Then during >> the set up of max I discovered that max doesn't rip to m4a. >> Supposing >> his computer comes back with a bumb ITunes, is there a way to convert >> m4a files to other formats? Is there another lossless format that >> ITunes will read without a lot of palaver? We'd like to convert the >> already ripped discs to a new format and save the chore of rewripping >> them, then re-librafy the files and use Max to import the rest of his >> cd's into his ITunes library. How realistic is this? >> >> Just so you know, he is running all the latest updates, including the >> latest ITunes. >> >> Direction and suggestions would be very much appreciated. >> >> Best, >> >> erik burggraaf >> A+ sertified technician and user support consultant. >> Phone: 888-255-5194 >> Email: [email protected] >> >> >>> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
