DWallach Wrote: > 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.
I am going to eventually re-rip everything into FLAC, too. I've given up on iTunes. I just use SlimServer to play everything. While you're ripping make high quality mp3's at the same time, so you can easily import those into iTunes. You can use iTunes-LAME for that. As for Jinzora, it looks cool, but you have to set up an Apache/PHP server, which is a royal pain in the ass, if you're not a sysadmin. -- ezkcdude ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ezkcdude's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2545 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=14697 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
