Hey Eric, Thanks for the info. After seeing your last message, I configured my preferences to import as M4A and it seems to be working well. So, I think that'll do for me for now. :) Cheers, Donna On Feb 6, 2010, at 3:54 PM, erik burggraaf wrote:
> Hi donna, it is possible. I know people who do it successfully all the time. > > My issues were that I was already familiar with flac because of trading > lossless live consert recording. Since I already have hundreds of these in > flac and need the support anyway, I decided to stick with it for my CD > collection. > flac is also supported by my playback device and m4a is not it was easy to > stay with flac. > > Then there was this lovely issue where I would set my ITunes encoder settings > the way I wanted them and when I tried to confirm it would not accept the > settings. So it doesn't support flac and it doesn't want to rip to the mp3 > quality I wantso ITunes went out the window. Actually it stays for the > simple reason that when musicbrains fails to find a CD Itunes almost always > comes through. It even found some local artist CD's and stuff. The minorly > irritating thing about this setup is that ITunes always hangs just a little > bit. 3 seconds for every CD, and if I don't need that ITuneslookup for a > while it starts to chafe.. Course, you guys know how much I love Itunes to > begin with. > > pest, > > > erik burggraaf > A+ certified technician and user support consultant. > Phone: 888-255-5194 > Email: [email protected] > > On 2010-02-06, at 1:33 PM, Donna Goodin wrote: > >> Hi Erik and all, >> >> Wow this has been interesting. I understood the issue of losing quality >> with mp3s, but I guess where I was confused, is that I assumed that CDs were >> imported into Itunes in M4a format, just like the songs we purchase (though >> I had had concerns about quality on more than one occasion). After seeing >> your message, I looked in my Itunes library, and obviously saw this was not >> the case. Is it not possible to just have CDs import into iTunes in M4a >> format? >> Thanks, >> Donna >> >> On Feb 6, 2010, at 10:11 AM, erik burggraaf wrote: >> >>> Hi Donna, >>> >>> When we talk about mp3 we're dealing with a lossie format. In other words, >>> it makes your files smaller by throwing away pieces of the sound that it >>> thinks you can't hear. Often the result is comfortable to listen to and >>> portable to cary around, and the trade off of quality vs space is >>> acceptable. >>> >>> Then we have lossless formats, like the free lossless audio codek or .flac >>> format. Apple has it's own lossless .m4a format, and the pioneering >>> shorten or .shn format. These formats can reduce the sice of an audio file >>> by about half while leaving all of the sound wave presicely in tact. Well >>> now here in Canada, one terabyte drives are down around $80 or less. Plus, >>> I just got a rockboxed sansa e270, and I'll soon be getting a 16 gb >>> expantion card for it. Maybe more than one eventually. With space >>> becoming less and less an issue, Many of the people I know are switching to >>> lossless and listening to their music in CD quality. I mean, we bought >>> these discs. Most of us own hundreds, some own thousands, and we want to >>> hear the music as it was meant to be, especially as it's not much more >>> hardship than making mp3 files if you already have the space. >>> >>> Best, >>> >>> erik burggraaf >>> A+ certified technician and user support consultant. >>> Phone: 888-255-5194 >>> Email: [email protected] >>> >>> On 2010-02-06, at 9:14 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: >>> >>>> OK, I may sound like an idiot, but what is Max, and where do I get it? I, >>>> too, would be interested in ripping cds in a higher quality. Oh, and what >>>> do you mean I'm going lossless? >>>> >>>> Thanks for your patience if these are simplistic questions. >>>> Best, >>>> Donna >>>> On Feb 6, 2010, at 7:04 AM, 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 >>>>> A+ certified technician and user support consultant. >>>>> Phone: 888-255-5194 >>>>> Email: [email protected] >>>>> >>>>> 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. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -- >>>>>>> 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. >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> 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. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> 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. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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. >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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. >>> >>> >> >> -- >> 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. >> > > -- > 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. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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