I'm about to rerip my entire collection (~1200 CDs) once and for good, and I've decided to go with one of the lossless formats. Right now, I've got everything in MP3 format, stored in iTunes. In too many cases, I've put a whole lot of effort into cleaning up the tags, adding BPMs, star ratings, and so forth. Starting over from scratch is something I want to avoid at all costs.
I've got a SqueezeBox, a 2nd-gen iPod, and a Rio Car Player. My tunes live on a Mac, soon to be augmented with an Infrant NAS box, which will be the primary server for the SqueezeBox. Given my situation, particularly with all the metadata stored in iTunes, I'm unclear whether I want to do Apple Lossless, which is nicely integrated with iTunes, or whether I want to do FLAC, where there are nice automated tools (described in this thread) to convert things. Furthermore, I need some way of systematically matching up albums that I ripped earlier and applying the metadata to the new files. I'm curious if anybody is aware of anything already out there that can do the job. If I was going to write it myself, I see that there are Perl libraries that understand MP3/ID3 tags and FLAC tags, but what about M4A/ALAC tags? According to CPAN, the MP4::Info module supports reading but not writing these tags. Somehow, I can see myself writing a tool that outputs an AppleScript to run through iTunes. Please tell me there's a better way. -- DWallach _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
