ratso;538481 Wrote: > very useful info jim, thanx. i'm not sure if switch automatically keeps > the original format or not, can't locate much documentation on the > software. it asks you to select your preferences or use the default > settings for compression/sampling which assumes that it changes your > files into whatever you have it set for.
Always worth testing something like this on a subset of files with various characteristics to see if it mangles anything. I haven't done ALAC but have tried other conversion/retagging software. Worth getting it right before you spend time converting a large collection. Find some special case files in your collection for testing. Things to look out for after running test: - Is the audio fine? Does it play :) - Does 16/44 stay 16/44 and so on? - Converting it back do you end up with the same thing? Then the tags: - Are the format of the new tags correct. Some software tries to put the wrong type tags or the wrong version of the tags on music. More a problem on mp3s which end up with a bunch of weird version tags. - Look at all the tags on the existing file, and check if they are there on the new file. Artists, composers whatever is important to you. - Check special characters and see what happens to them. ë ê å those kind of things. Also test the software on a folder with special characters in the folder name. (if you have these) - Genres? Don't know the mac software for all this but in this process I find mp3tag on Windows very useful. -- lrossouw Louis 'Last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/lrossouw) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ lrossouw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3416 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77700
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