Charles Hartman wrote:
I'm doing a lot of LP -> CD transfers, a process with many steps some
of which are silly & tedious. One of them is that, after I've split
the digitized audio file into tracks, and named them (a little
tedious in itself since I'm using an ancient Toast Lite to burn the
CD), and go to import the tracks into iTunes, unless it's a recording
known to GraceNote I have to type all the track names (and composers)
*again* in the iTunes info panel. I was thinking a little Rev stack
to do this would be handy (and worth the time if I do *another*
couple of hundred), but I'm not sure where to look.
Does anybody know of a way to get audio track names from CDs and load
them into iTunes? Am I missing something obvious?
I am 99.9% sure that the track names are not on an audio CD. If they
were, iTunes, MusicMatch, etc. would surely retrieve them for us,
wouldn't they ?
On Feb 18, 2006, at 11:00 PM, Mark Smith wrote:
Not exactly what you had in mind, I know, but couldn't you just
import the digitized files into iTunes as aifs or wavs, enter the
info there, and then burn the CD?
Yes. Of course that also entails converting all the AIFFs to AACs and
erasing the AIFFs from disk. The conversion takes long enough so
that, when I got started on this, I sensed that it would be a little
more obnoxious than this roundabout method. (The whole procedure
involves two long waiting steps -- recording the AIFF from LP in
Sound Studio and running it through ClickRepair -- and some busywork,
bookkeeping steps. The AIFF->AAC conversion is another long waiting
step, and that's what decided me, perhaps wrongly.)
I guess maybe I'm not understanding the current work flow (versus what
Mark suggested).
I think today you do:
1. LP -> AIFF
2. AIFF -> CD
3. CD -> iTunes
Mark is proposing
a. LP -> AIFF
b. AIFF -> iTunes
c. AIFF to AAC convert within iTunes
d. iTunes -> CD
Note that b and c can be combined into a single step using the scripting
interface to iTunes, but I don't think they can be using the iTunes UI.
If there is a way to do that in one step, please tell me how :-)
Clearly 1 and a are the same
2 and d are equivalent (limited by speed of burning - maybe iTunes can
do it faster than your old Toast Lite, but in general the same)
b is (for me) almost instantaneous - no file copy, no conversion, merely
adds some entries in the iTunes database)
and, finally, c is faster than 3 -- the conversion (in my case WAV to
AAC) happens faster than I ever achieve on CD import into iTunes.
Importing a CD varies between 5x and 8x speed, while file conversion is
reliably faster than 10x.
Converting AIFF rather CD into iTunes has the benefit of being entirely
scriptable - no physical handling of CDs every 5 minutes. If you have
enough disk space, you can spend all day importing your LPs to AIFF and
naming tracks, then leave your script to do all the import and convert
while you have dinner.
btw - yes, I do wish I had known all this six months ago when I did a
few LPs and found it sufficiently painful that I haven't yet done all
the rest of them.
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