Re: [slim] how to manage lossless files for squeezebox and AAC for iPod?

2008-12-29 Thread funkstar
I used to use the flac2mp3 script and liked it. Then I tried dbPoweramp for ripping instead of EAC and it greatly simplified my ripping workflow. dbPoweramps batch converter will also max out my quad core box with four encoding threads too :) -- funkstar

Re: [slim] how to manage lossless files for squeezebox and AAC for iPod?

2008-12-29 Thread moley6knipe
You could rip to FLAC and then run the flac2mp3 script (a search of the forums shoud find it) to produce a mirror of your library in mp3, if you live with mp3 rather than aac? Or you could pay for MediaMonkey gold - that should give you the ability to transcode to your iPod from lossless as you s

Re: [slim] how to manage lossless files for squeezebox and AAC for iPod?

2008-12-29 Thread funkstar
What quite a few people do is just keep two copies of their music. I rip to Flac using dbPoweramp, correct tags and artwork it misses with Tag&Rename then batch convert everything to MP3 using dbPoweramps batch converter. My 1,300 albums is only about 90GB or so. Not a lot of storage space these

[slim] how to manage lossless files for squeezebox and AAC for iPod?

2008-12-28 Thread sotwell
I will be setting up my Duet system and plan on ripping my 500 cds in either FLAC or Apple Lossless. I also just received and iPod nano 8G and want to put ACC files on this. Any suggestions? What the easiest way to manage lossless for my home audio playback and AAC for an iPod? Any way to conv