1. Notice the above script copies the CD track info to the iTunes imported WAV file's iTune tag section only. If you play them in Slim Server you will still see the original, different tags.
2. However, if you convert the WAV to any of the iTunes format, ALAC (Apple Lossless), AIFF, AAC, or MP3, the Slim Server will see the iTunes tag set the script copied into, instead of the set in the original WAVs from the ripper. 3. If you wish you can convert the WAV to AIFF or ALAC, and then back to WAV, to let the Slim Server to use the new tags in WAV format. 4. There are questions in the web forums weather the ALAC is really lossless. It is easy to obtain an answer but I am surprised so far I have seen no one did it. So tonight I downloaded the Wave Editor 1.22, opened the original WAV file, added a layer, and then opened the second WAV file, that was converted from an ALAC in iTunes. The ALAC was converted in iTunes from the original WAV, so it was a round trip WAV -> ALAC -> WAV. I copied the second WAV, and pasted it to the 2nd layer, set the layer property to "Substract", and flattened the layers. The results are all zeros from both the analyzer (with the All selected) or visually. This proves that the Apple Lossless is indeed lossless. However, I tried this for 4 different tracks, and for one I did find a difference after the round trip: the iTunes omitted the last ~0.2 seconds in the ALAC, so that there there were huge differences after the substraction, at the very very end. This proofs that the subtraction method is working as supposed, and that the iTunes convertion is less than 100% reliable. However, I tried the round trip convertion of the very same track twice afterwards, and in both times the iTunes convertions were accurate -- nothing was chopped off. So the occurance was just a glitch? I am going to ask Apple. Thanks, Leping -- leping ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leping's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6477 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25333 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
