Good luck Eric, I imagine it could just be a hosed library, but I will be very interested in hearing the results. On Mar 4, 2009, at 6:37 AM, erik burggraaf wrote:
> > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
