Steve Bernard, Jr;389996 Wrote: > I'm not commenting on this thread as a whole but I want to correct a few > misconceptions about iTunes where I am able. .... "Removed by iPhone" > ..... > > I personally maintain a FLAC library ripped with EAC for my > SqueezeCenter music and use foobar2000 and the Nero AAC encoder to > maintain a lossy library for my iTunes/iPod. I find that this works > well for my purposes. However, using iTunes as a ripper does not > cause the sorts of far-reaching problems you seem to be imagining. > > -Steve
I have to agree with Steve on this point. I also maintain a complete FLAC library and only convert the songs I listen to on my iPhone to MP3 in a totally diffierent library. I DO NOT let iTunes see or know about my FLAC music files. It is my opinion that iTunes was designed with an idiot or sometimes computer user as its end user. It tries to control and take over everything. Its sees album art missing, is it goes and gets what it thinks you need without any choices on your part. How hard would it have been for iTunes to stop and ask, keep current or replace with this? For me the easy solution is to rip to FLAC and convert to whatever format one wants to use with iTunes. One advantage of this is that the FLAC files are always there to reconvert if iTunes hoses things up. And the Squeezebox products love FLAC as its source files. Yes I go to extremes of keeping my FLAC files on a server and my iPhone MP3s on another machine, but its just as easy to keep them on different drives or in completely different directories on a single machine. Most of the issues that come up are because of iTunes. -- iPhone *iPhone* 'Last.FM' (http://www.last.fm/user/mephone) Media Room: Transporter, VTL TL-6.5 Signature Pre-Amp, Ayre MX-R Mono's, Vandersteen Quatro, VeraStarr 6.4SE 6-channel Amp, VCC-5 Reference Center, four VSM-1 Signatures, Runco RS 900 CineWide AutoScope 2.35:1 Living Room: Duet, ADCOM GTP-870HD, Cinepro 3K6SE III Gold, Vandersteen Model 3A Signature, Two 2Wq subs, VCC-2, Two VSM-1 Kitchen: Squeezebox BOOM Bedroom: SB3, GFR-700HD, Thiel 2.3, Second Boom Home Office: SB3, NAD C370, two VSM-1 Home Gym: SB3, Parasound Vamp v.3, Thiel PowerPoint 1.2 Mobile: SB3, Audioengine A5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ iPhone's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13622 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=58880 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
