Well, I hate to dissapoint you , but, there does seem to be a major issue with adding music to an iPhone with iTools. It seems that, when you add music to an iPhone, iTools has a nasty habit of stripping out the meta data tagging so that, when you go to look for it in the music section, you don't see the tracks where they should be. I tried using the tagging in Easy Music converter, and even tagged the files I wanted to add using iTunes. Every single time iTools strips out the meta data so that no matter how precice you are with your tagging, it's no good because all that work you did ading the correct album names and so forth gets stripped out when iTools adds those files to your iPhone. So, again, it appears to fall short.
What a shame since they came so close to getting it right. 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! On Aug 30, 2014, at 10:38 AM, erik burggraaf <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, I'd like to recomend musicbox as an exceptional way of handling the > tagging issue. I genuinely love this program and by time I found it, the > author had discontinued production. If it's not still out there somewhere I > could provide it I'm sure. > > ITunes never worked for me. The more I tried it, the more it broke. I put > up with it constantly for about 6 months. Every time I would ask the list > how to do something in Itunes I would get back, "oh, it's really easy", > followed by a list of 20 or 30 steps needed to accomplish a task. I've tried > to teach it to some of my clients who insist that they want to use it, but > really it's just painful. > > Best, > > Erik Burggraaf > Follow my campaign on fund me for great promotions as I work to raise funds > to take orientation and mobility certification training. > http://www.fundme.com/en/projects/6287-Orientation-and-mobility-training-for-the-blind > > > > > > > > On 2014-08-29, at 6:36 PM, Ray Foret Jr <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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. > > > -- > 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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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