JJZolx Wrote: > > 2. Instead of iTunes you might be able to find a transcoding program > that can extract this info and tag the files as it's creating them. > dbPoweramp might be able to do this. I know it can do the conversion - > whether it's powerful enough to be able to parse tagging data from the > directory and filename, I don't know. > > http://www.dbpoweramp.com/codec-central-mp4.htm
This has been suggested to me on another forum but no one has been able to come up with software that can extract the data and tag AIFF. This is probably what I need to do. I havn't tried it but I doubt the file name info remains intact after being imported into iTunes. In future I will probable use EAC to rip to wav and transcode on the fly into AIFF. Ps Here's the reason I went the WAV route to begin with (from a previous post): I understand the issue quite clearly now and there is a very good reason I chose the WAV option. My origonal intent was to build a music source for a (very)high end sound system and thus I was concerned with two things: 1) preserving the full resolution and quality of the origonal cd 2) getting the best ripps possible It is aspect #2 that ruled out AIFF or Apple Lossless because the best ripping software available (Exact Audio Copy) won't support these. EAC is special because it reads and rereads the cd (up to 50 times) untill it is able to get the exact correct data from the cd. Getting exact bit perfect data is critical in high fidelity applications and why, in the past, cd transports were developed costing thousands of dollars. What they attempted to do, in real time, was to minimize read errors. Now with the advent of compter based servers it is possible to deal with this issue far more effectively since music playback is no longer linked to real time data extraction. In fact CDs ripped by EAC will, in all likelihood, be superior to the origonal CD.Initially this is counterintuitive but makes sense because a CD player can only read the cd once and any imperfections must be dealt and compensated for using digital approximations (guesses). Anyway I was just reminded about this issue when I tried to rip a brand new cd using EAC. The CD was so flawed EAC could not retrieve the data (the first time this has happened). Itunes on the other hand had no problem because it simply ignored the errors and ripped the flawed cd to AIFF. Needless to say the Itune rip is sonicaly compromized and not up to the standard of my HiFi system. That said, I'll continue to ripp to WAV (or maybe Flac) untill software is developed to make the best possible rips to AIFF or Apple Lossless. -- gdg ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gdg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1122 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25333 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
