Hi Erik, Annie, Ricardo, and Others,
Another accessible alternative for lossless rippling is X Lossless
Decoder:
http://tmkk.hp.infoseek.co.jp/xld/index_e.html
which supports cue sheets.
If I want the best quality mp3 ripping, I use the iTunes LAME plug-in
that was described in this archived list post:
http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/msg07007.html
(Re: Media players on Mac OS X)
This uses the iTunes interface (so metadata is fetched through the
normal Gracenote database), but encodes through the LAME algorithm. I
insert the CD and make any alterations I might want to the tag
information in iTunes, launch iTunes-LAME-3.98.2-x86 to bring up the
plug-in, and set the options for "--alt preset insane" to rip at 320
kbps. I'm still running Leopard, so I can't check whether this
version works for Snow Leopard, but I've read that other's are using
the iTunes LAME plug-in with Snow Leopard. (There may even be a newer
version around; I just don't know whether there's a precompiled binary.)
Ricardo, this a bug that is in iTunes when you try to change to the
custom mp3 with VoiceOver. I find that I can do this with VO-Shift-
Space to click on the buttons (instead of using VO-Space), but I don't
know whether this is simply because I updated from preferences where
this was set under an older version of iTunes. I suspect that if the
setting is ever activated with a mouse (and that includes using the
NumPad Commander option of pressing "5" on the numeric keypad to click
on option buttons) that you can choose 320 kbps with VoiceOver.
Here's the link to one of Erik's posts in the old archives reporting
this problem:
http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40macvisionaries.com/msg45406.html
(Re: ripping cd's)
Not sure this is useful to anyone else. Erik's advice may be the best
option for Annie.
Cheers,
Esther
erik burggraaf wrote:
Hi, The settings are perfectly accessible, they just dont trucking
change when you hit the OK buttons. Or at least that was my
experience here. besides, I'm going lossless now, and I'm sure
ITunes won't let me rip to flac even with fluke installed, wonderful
add-on that it is.
Max is way more versatile and streamlined for ripping anyway, like
most custom applications.
Best,
erik burggraaf
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Phone: 888-255-5194
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On 2010-02-05, at 8:40 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote:
Hi,
What quality did you want to use in iTunes? I never had a problem
changing the quality settings.
On Feb 5, 2010, at 6:59 PM, Annie Skov Nielsen wrote:
Hi all.
Now I have succeded in setting up max, so that I can rip cd's in the
quality I want. I am not using ITunes for that, because I can not
get
the quality I want, I think it is a voiceover problem, but it is not
solved in the last version of ITunes either. So I try to use max
instead, I am in a way very saticefied with that, but I have a
problem, The program is using musicbrainz, and I can not find my
cd's
on that database, can I use another database instead and which? and
which information do I need, if I can use another database?
I hope somebody can help.
Best regards Annie.
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