ideasculptor Wrote: > I just went through this after ripping my entire library to ALAC. I > strongly counsel against doing the same thing. Fundamentally, ALAC may > be lossless, but there are no solid tools for transcoding to other > formats. Actually, thats not entirely true, as I did a bunch of work > with the author of Max to make it pretty darned useful for transcoding > of large libraries, but it took a lot of work. Prior to last week, > there was no way to transcode a 500GB library unless you had at least > 1000GB of disk space. I added or got Stephen to add features which > will delete the source file, leave the transcoded file in the same > directory, change the way it queues up tracks needing to be transcoded, > and ignore filles whch have already been transcoded (although my hack > for that hasn't been integrated, yet, I think). So now, if you have a > library in apple lossless, it is at least possible to get out of it. > Prior to the changes to Max, that just wasn't possible, at least not > without a ton of manual intervention. Incidentally, I did transcode a > 500GB lossless library with no trouble whatsoever. All stability > issues seem to be worked out (other than a memory leak which requires > the occasional restart, but is otherwise harmless).
Very interesting points. In terms of transcoding, I'm a windows guy (although I like the mac too) so I'll point out that its reasonably easy to transcode ALAC to FLAC in windows (using dbpoweramp)... which a mac person could use in a pinch if you put all your music on an external hard disc and borrowed a friends computer for a few hours. ss. -- street_samurai ------------------------------------------------------------------------ street_samurai's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=199 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20693 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
