Hi Andrew,
Absolutely it will work. If you just quit iTunes, then move the entire
Music/iTunes directory onto your external storage device, and then restart
iTunes with the Option key held down, you can choose your library’s new
location. Just don’t forget to leave that drive connected whenev
Dear Sabahattin,
Yes, it makes it all clear. I just wanted to confirm my thinking about it with
somebody who clearly knows much more about this.
I shall seriously consider whether it's worth my while to continue subscribing
to iTunes match. My mac has 500GB drive which seems to me not to be v
Hi Andrew,
If you upload to iTunes Match from a lossless file in your library, the copy in
your library stays lossless but the copy that ends up in iTunes Match is 256 Kb
AAC. The transcoding happens temporarily on your computer prior to the upload
but does not remain in your library, much as
That's very clear. Just one last thing; having imported a cd into my itunes
using lossless, how does it play with itunes match?
Next to the new title imported I can see its status as "pending upload'. Am I
correct in thinking that it's best not to upload this new music imported using
lossles
Hi Andrew,
No problem; that’s why we’re here.
Unfortunately, no. The loss incurred by lossy encoding is permanent. You will
have to re-rip those CDs. This incidentally highlights another obvious benefit
of lossless formats: archival. When the next format-de-jour comes along, or if
you simp
Hi Sabahattin,
Thank you so much for such a detailed description of the choices in converting
my cds in iTunes. You are very kind.
May I ask, since I've so far been importing my cds into iTunes using the
default AAC encoder, is there a way of converting the already imported music in
this way
It depends on what you want to do with your files. Playback generally requires
a widely-supported format, whilst editing will require larger, original files.
Since iTunes generally rips CDs for playback, that’s probably what you want to
do.
MP3 produces smaller files that are extremely compatib
Hi,
When importing cd's into iTunes, I see that I have a choice of encoders.
There's AAC, AIFF, MP3 and something else. What would you advise be the best
or most universal or useful encoder?
Many thanks for your opinions.
Andrew
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