...so, with the whole Apple Remote/SimplifyMedia thing, I'm finally getting sold on iTunes (although I may regret this when I actually build an HTPC and have a system hooked up to my home theater, don't need streaming from my bedroom computer). Coverflow is just too pretty, and the iPhone apps too plentiful [to make up for the lack of ASIO support and FLAC support].
Also, it's possible to go from ALAC -> FLAC, but apparently it's hard to go in the other direction. So, that means I'm going to try and rip my CD collect [250+] to iTunes.
Questions:
1). Is the quality the same you'd get with EAC or the like? I'm tempted to try a test; rip with iTunes to ALAC, EAC to Flac, then take them both to WAV. They should be identical, no?
2). The age old question of album art...I've spent literally WEEKS tagging my loose mp3s (about 8 gigs worth, only the good stuff
) with MediaMonkey. Tagging, embedding art, etc. But these albums will need their own. And I'd like each track to have it embedded so it can be played prettily anywhere. Is this easily done with iTunes? Possible at all, even if klugey?
3). Filenames. Do I have ANY control over filenames in iTunes? I ripped one file already and it was like "01 Ghost of Tom Joad.mp4". I'd rather have "Rage Against the Machine - Ghost of Tom Joad.mp4". Yes, I'm anal. But forgive me. I still use folders organized by genre and Winamp for fuck's sake (you know, before there was the idea of a "library").
4). [Pardon the ig'nance, I never use iTunes] will it sync to my non-Apple Creative Muvo and make 128kps mp3s out of lossless files like MediaMonkey will with my flac files?
5). iTunes gives me weird "Sever Error, the task cannot be completed because the something or other is busy, Switch To or Retry" errors. I just assumed that's because my XP install is croaking, but is that, like, common? Fixable?
The biggest point is that I just want to maintain future flexibility, want to automate as much as possible, and don't want to have to rip/re-tag 250+ CDs and god knows how many songs.
Thanks!
Also, it's possible to go from ALAC -> FLAC, but apparently it's hard to go in the other direction. So, that means I'm going to try and rip my CD collect [250+] to iTunes.
Questions:
1). Is the quality the same you'd get with EAC or the like? I'm tempted to try a test; rip with iTunes to ALAC, EAC to Flac, then take them both to WAV. They should be identical, no?
2). The age old question of album art...I've spent literally WEEKS tagging my loose mp3s (about 8 gigs worth, only the good stuff
) with MediaMonkey. Tagging, embedding art, etc. But these albums will need their own. And I'd like each track to have it embedded so it can be played prettily anywhere. Is this easily done with iTunes? Possible at all, even if klugey?3). Filenames. Do I have ANY control over filenames in iTunes? I ripped one file already and it was like "01 Ghost of Tom Joad.mp4". I'd rather have "Rage Against the Machine - Ghost of Tom Joad.mp4". Yes, I'm anal. But forgive me. I still use folders organized by genre and Winamp for fuck's sake (you know, before there was the idea of a "library").
4). [Pardon the ig'nance, I never use iTunes] will it sync to my non-Apple Creative Muvo and make 128kps mp3s out of lossless files like MediaMonkey will with my flac files?
5). iTunes gives me weird "Sever Error, the task cannot be completed because the something or other is busy, Switch To or Retry" errors. I just assumed that's because my XP install is croaking, but is that, like, common? Fixable?
The biggest point is that I just want to maintain future flexibility, want to automate as much as possible, and don't want to have to rip/re-tag 250+ CDs and god knows how many songs.
Thanks!
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