Welcome to the Mac side, most people I know who have switched have never
looked back. Your computer usage in general will be more pleasant.
However the dominance of iTunes and Apple's maddeningly stubborn refusal
to support the common open standard FLAC format is very annoying and
problematic.
I too have just transferred from PC to Mac after a 10 year absence. WHY
did I not do this sooner? I love it!
I have always been on the lookout for a good media box, focusing on SB,
BBC iPlayer, 4oD, and watching DVD's and this Mac Mini is the mutts nuts
for all via SC and PLEX. PLEX even copes
Hi,
I have used Mac's for many years. I second DaveP opinion, XLD is very
good ripper (includes AccurateRip support through CDParanoia engine).
It allows simple tagging changes. I use Jaikoz to manage library, tags
folder naming, tree structure etc.
I use XLD to convert my FLAC library to
Would someone please switch on the bulb for a poor unenlightened iTunes user
(that's me) and explain (preferably in words of no more than two syllables and
something approaching every day English!):
1. what's so bad about it?
2. How does one do what it does on a Mac, including its
I used iTunes as my only tool for a significant time - but its ripping
software can be a little optimistic. it errs on the rip something
rather than giving up. I had about 5% of my 800 cds ripped badly
(clicks, dropouts etc.) Also its ever changing interface started to
become painful. Others
I have used both Max and iTunes for several years with the various SB
servers. I have never noticed an audible problem with tracks that
either program has ripped completely. However, iTunes has failed to
complete a few tracks out of thousands that Max was able to complete
successfully. Whether
Thanks for the help thus far guys! I will definitely check out Max for
ripping once the imac arrives.
Kmr - I will use your advice and setup the shared folder for the music,
thanks!
One question though, if running parallels is as easy as it seems(never
tried it yet), am I better just doing
cunobelinus;490306 Wrote:
Would someone please switch on the bulb for a poor unenlightened iTunes
user (that's me) and explain (preferably in words of no more than two
syllables and something approaching every day English!):
1. what's so bad about it?
2. How does one do what it does on
However, the world of squeezebox is heavily skewed towards pc.
Hmm... famous (almost) first words when I started my work at Logitech:
do you have a Mac?
no
we have to fix this
That's not really fair - the problem is that up until now no-one has
made a decent mac ripper/tagger/manager because
So from the sounds of things and after doing more research, my best bet
seems to be to use paralells or a similar program and tag, edit, create
playlists, and etc running windows on the mac. I would assume once I
finish my editing of music on the windows side using media monkey, I
will then have
the lack of solid tagging software has been a problem with macs.
However, my tagging needs have been satisfied with the play program from
sbooth. also, now the rip program looks like a perfect replacement for
max-although I have to admit that i can't even remember the last time I
ripped a cd.
bigbwb;490100 Wrote:
So from the sounds of things and after doing more research, my best bet
seems to be to use paralells or a similar program and tag, edit, create
playlists, and etc running windows on the mac. I would assume once I
finish my editing of music on the windows side using
Hello all,
I bought my wife the new imac for Christmas and will be retiring the
old Dell PC. Currently I have the SB3 running SC on the PC. I have
grown a custom to using Media Monkey to edit and create playlists and
etc for my SB player. Once I switch over to the mac, what are my best
welcome to the world of apple- computers for people who have much higher
standards, expectations and sadly, price points.
seriously though, your life will most definitely improve by working on
a mac. However, the world of squeezebox is heavily skewed towards pc.
and i know of nothing in the mac
exile;489920 Wrote:
good luck and may you never have to open a microsoft program or internet
explorer ever again.
I confess that, despite being about as fervent a Machead as you can
find, that I use dbpoweramp (running in a WinXP virtual machine) to do
my ripping and initial tagging. I'm
exile;489920 Wrote:
However, the world of squeezebox is heavily skewed towards pc.
That's not really fair - the problem is that up until now no-one has
made a decent mac ripper/tagger/manager because of the dominance of
iTunes. It's not Logitech's fault that Apple won't support AccurateRip
radish wrote:
exile;489920 Wrote:
However, the world of squeezebox is heavily skewed towards pc.
That's not really fair - the problem is that up until now no-one has
made a decent mac ripper/tagger/manager because of the dominance of
iTunes. It's not Logitech's fault that Apple won't
my reason for stating that the squeezebox has been skewed towards the pc
is based on music editing programs such as media monkey that are
predominantly pc only in develoment and the number of plugins over the
years that were built only for the windows environment (i.e.-moose).
but I would say
exile wrote:
my reason for stating that the squeezebox has been skewed towards the pc
is based on music editing programs such as media monkey that are
predominantly pc only in develoment and the number of plugins over the
years that were built only for the windows environment (i.e.-moose).
kmr;489921 Wrote:
I'm eagerly awaiting Steve Booth's Rip application to get out of beta,
but even then it won't have the multiple metadata sources that the
registered version of dbpoweramp has. I don't know if it will do
multiple conversions and compute track and album gains either; my
For ripping and tagging on the Mac you might want to look at
XLDhttp://tmkk.hp.infoseek.co.jp/xld/index_e.html. This usually does
the trick for me in both flac and mp3 formats on the same ripping pass.
Tags are pulled from CDDB and you get the chance to fix them before
committing. If you
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