Earlier today, I did a short review on iTools and recommended that, instead, it might be better to make piece with the way in which iTunes operates and manages files. This final opinion was based on the dificulty I encountered while trying to import videos shot on my iPhone back in to my iPhone and getting an "unknown error" Well, After synching my iPhone with iTunes and working out how to load videos to it, I have decided again to attempt the process of importing videos to my iPhone. Upon the more recent try, I met with success. For those of us who use iTunes to manage our iDevices, iTunes still stands as the better way to do this because of the ease with which one can properly tag meda data for adding files in to an iPhone. However, for individuals looking for a non-iTunes alternative, iTools appears at the moment to be the best bet: with, of course, the understanding that many things that iTunes can do for one in the way of tagging, and file convertion, one must find other ways to do one'sself if one is going to use such third party solutions as iTools. Again, I cannot emphasize enough the importance of the fact that if you are going to break away from iTunes, you need to come to grips with having to do many tasks manually that using iTunes makes very easy. However, if you are bound and determined not to use iTunes, may I suggest the following solutions.
1. Easy Music converter. From the Mac app store. This app, (though not free) does provide an exelent encoder for .4ma and has fewer audible artifacts than most third party .4ma encoders. Some meta data tagging is offered here too. 2. Burn. For CD burning, this is an exelent third party tool and is very straight forward and easy to use. Also, simly Burns should not be overlooked as it is also fully accessible and is very similar in ability. 3. For CD wripping, Max is the way to go. It too is fully accessible. Though a little dated by now, it still serves as an exelent wripper and even has .4ma encoding and I believe offers some meta data tagging. 4. Finally, for actually transfering all that stuff back and forth, iTools. 5. Want all four solutions wrapped in to one? Then stay with iTunes. Sincerely, the Constantly Barefooted Ray, Still a very happy Mac and iphone user! Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in and fully protected by ClamXav Antivirus! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
