[EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/30/05 4:08 PM
I want to maximize my sound quality and have started converting
everything to apple lossless - basically it seemed the best bet given
I use itunes all the time * I suppose I could use something like
dbpoweramp to batch reconvert to Flac but based on
What happens when Apple Computer loses any court
battle with Apple Records and is forced to either
get out
of the music business or give its music technology
to
Apple Records?
I love Apple, but I hate their music distribution
ideas
and anything having to do with proprietary formats.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/30/05 4:37 PM
But, what if you have a very large music
collection and use an iPod where you interchange
tracks often? This would mean that for every
new track you want on your ipod, you'll have to
go to your flac library, decompress the file, import
it into
Chris Glushko wrote:
But, what if you have a very large music collection
and use an iPod where you interchange tracks often?
This would mean that for every new track you want on
your ipod, you'll have to go to your flac library,
decompress the file, import it into iTunes, tag it in
iTunes,
Chris Glushko wrote:
But, what if you have a very large music collection
and use an iPod where you interchange tracks often?
This would mean that for every new track you want on
your ipod, you'll have to go to your flac library,
decompress the file, import it into iTunes, tag it in
iTunes,
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 15:06:14 -0800 (PST), Chris Glushko
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't use Apple Lossless for the iPod. I keep all
the files in Appple Lossless on iTunes. When I want
to put something on the iPod, I just convert the files
to AAC in iTunes, transfer them and then delete
Todd Larason wrote:
Another option would be to run a server which speaks iTunes' sharing
protocol. I haven't paid much attention to this space since doing the initial
work figuring out the protocol, so I'm not sure if any of the pre-packaged
servers would do quite what you want. The perl module
On 13 March 05, Phil Karn wrote:
Start here:
http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/doc/v-comment.html
Thanks
iTunes has a GROUP tag that seems to be designed for this exact
purpose, but it's not in the Vorbis comment conventions, no software
supports it, and it's important enough that I wanted
Todd Larason wrote:
Can you point me to documentation for the Vorbis metadata? I've scanned
vorbis.com and xiph.org, and I'm just not finding it.
Start here:
http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/doc/v-comment.html
I decided on Vorbis for my meta data partly because I have a large
collection of
Todd Larason wrote:
The iTunes practice isn't that simple.
Speaking of the iTunes database structure, do you happen to know of any
utilities that can scan a music folder and build the iTunes XML
structure from the tags in the music files (other than iTunes itself,
that is)?
The reason I ask is
Michael Peters wrote:
There are issues in other areas - for example, some CD's will have
more than one artist - U2 for example, the album Rattle and Hum.
In that case I'd just use a different ARTIST tag for each track, just as
for a compilation album like Greatest Hits of the '70s. Unlike the
Phillip Kerman wrote:
I have a proof of concept thing I built in Flash that parses iTunes's XML.
What do you need to extract exactly? I'm pretty sure it'd be easy to adapt
this thing I have to output a string (in any form you want) to your
clipboard so that you can paste it into another tool or
On 11 March 05, Phil Karn wrote:
That said, the numbers I've seen tend to indicate that FLAC achieves
somewhat better compression ratios than Apple Lossless. Also, FLAC
supports Vorbis-style metatags, which I consider vastly superior
Can you point me to documentation for the Vorbis
Chris Glushko wrote:
If you are an iPod user and you like using iTunes to
manage your music, wouldn't Apple Lossless be the most
logical choice for your primary archive?
Well, it might be -- if you're willing to spend all that precious iPod
disk space on a lossless format. If you insist on
--- Phil Karn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't see much reason to ever use ALE, though it's
certainly nice to
now have the ability to decode it if necessary.
and
then it makes the most sense to keep your
primary archive in
FLAC and convert to AAC for the iPod as necessary.
If you are
Yes - currently there is not a working flac plugin for QuickTime
(which is needed to manage flac in iTunes)
What I do is rip to flac, transcode via a shell script from flac to
mp3 (lame 192VBR), and use mp3 on my iPod.
iTunes doesn't know about my flac files, but it doesn't need to either.
aac
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