(Thanks -- answered off-list -- I don't want to keep pushing this OT
item into everybody's mailbox . . .)
Charles
On Feb 19, 2006, at 9:04 AM, Mark Smith wrote:
Exactly. I'd add the one proviso that it would be better to do the
iTunes -> CD step before converting to aac - itunes will
effectively convert the aac files back to aif before burning, but
aac is lossy, so converting to aac first just puts worse quality on
your CD. Once you've burnt your CDs (feeding them in, one at a
time, of course), you can set the conversion of the whole lot to
aac going, and leave it going....
Mark
On 19 Feb 2006, at 12:09, Alex Tweedly wrote:
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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