One mild warning about ripping to aiff files: There seems to be some sort of issue in more recent versions of Slimserver with not reading all the tag information correctly (for me, at least). If I have "use iTunes" turned off, Slimserver seems to only sporadically pick up certain tag fields (disk #, composer, occasionally even some more common fields), sometimes doing different things for different tracks of the same CD. It DOES seem to work properly if I have "use iTunes" turned on, but then it isn't really reading track info from the files, but from your iTunes XML file. (Why would you want to set "use iTunes" off? Well, for example, I don't want my audiobooks to show up in Slimserver, so I keep them in a separate directory and just have Slimserver scan the music folder. I wish I knew a different way to exclude a genre from Slimserver without affecting iTunes...)
I did try to bring this up with Slimdevices tech support, but was told that Slimserver didn't support tags in aiff files and they were just like wav files, where it tries to figure out the info from directory structure. This clearly is not the case (otherwise how could it pick up composer info for at least SOME tracks?), but the person I was emailing lost interest when I found that setting "use iTunes" on would take care of things, so I doubt anybody is actually looking into the intermittent way tag info is read. I have heard rumors that the next version of OS X (Leopard) might support FLAC files natively. If that DOES turn out to be true, then I will be converting everything over to FLAC's, but for the time being aiff's seem a decent choice, if you have the disk space. -- mmcguff ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mmcguff's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5278 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31176 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
