Quoting m1abrams ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Well I recently got a new iPod and my old ways of getting music to it > are starting to strain on me. Taking too much time and effort to just > get music to listen to. > > I currently have all my music in FLAC format and currently use Jriver > Media Center to sync the FLAC to an ipod via on-the-fly transcoding. I > used the software without much issue with my older 4G ipod, however when > I got my iPod classic of course MC did not work with it. MC does now in > fact support the new Classics. However I am having various issue with it > and some of the issues are old design issues Jriver may never fix. > > So I am trying to find another option to have my lossless music > available for Squeezebox and my music on my iPod (preferable in a lossy > form for size). > > Using iTunes for the ipod has its advantages of better support > obviously and it has one of the better podcast catchers I have seen. I > love my podcasts. iTunes is bad in that in order work well you really > need to surrender your music to it and let it do it all. Tagging music > outside of iTunes has in past versions caused me headaches. > > I am thinking that maybe the best solution would be to surrender to > iTunes and convert my FLAC to ALAC (Apple lossless) and let iTunes > manage it. Downside is that my music will be lossless on my ipod which > currently i can fit my entire collection on the ipod in lossless (have > the 160GB ipod) but it leaves much less room for growth and reduces the > battery life. Since most of my ipod use is in the car battery life is > not that important. > > Now I understand to cons with using Apple Lossless with Squeezebox, > main one being no FF/REW in track however I do not have that with FLAC > right now since I have a 1st gen SB. > > Can anyone else talk me out of going from FLAC -> Apple Lossless. If > you think my plan is bad, please give me options. I have done the > duplicate music route (FLAC and mp3) however managing that drove me up > the wall. If you have a streamlined method for handling changes in > BOTH directions please share.
I have both an 80 gb ipod and an iphone. The iphone requires the use of iTunes, so no using MediaMonkey to on-the-fly transcode, as I can do with the iPod. I therefore use mp3fs to present my FLAC collection as MP3s to iTunes. You don't have to DO anything, mp3fs simply presents your flacs as MP3s to iTunes, which then indexes them. You don't need to maintain 2 collections! As files are 'called' by iTunes to be played or loaded, mp3fs transcodes them on the fly. For me, this solution works very very well. Bad news - as far as I know, mp3fs is linux only. I run Slimserver on a linux server, so this is not a big deal to me. My music is on a Windows RAID partition, which I mount via samba to the linux box, mount it as mp3 using mp3fs, and then share it back to the Windows box. As I said, slightly geeky, but it works really well. http://mp3fs.sourceforge.net dd _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
