Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] Get album date tag info?

2011-05-21 Thread aubuti
SatoriGFX;632466 Wrote: > I'd think it would be easier to restore your backup and add the replay > gain tags again, wouldn't it? +1 Unless you're in prison and really looking for something to fill the time, choosing automated re-doing of replaygain tags over manually adding date tags album by alb

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] FLAC or Apple Lossless ?

2011-05-21 Thread aubuti
liffy99;632386 Wrote: > All my library is in FLAC at the moment. Works fine with my Vortexbox > server. But given the virtually non-existent portability of FLAC files > to mobile devices (esp the car) I'm thinking of converting to Apple > Lossless. Mobile support for FLAC isn't mainstream, but i

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] FLAC or Apple Lossless ?

2011-05-21 Thread garym
aubuti;632499 Wrote: > > Sorry to stray off-topic, but this one currently interests me. I got > rid of iTunes several years ago, but then had to bring it back recently > after buying an iPod touch (primarily to control my SBs, but secondarily > as a portable player playing my MP3 copies). When I

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] FLAC or Apple Lossless ?

2011-05-21 Thread mfw
Another way to automatically add to iTunes is to place the folders containing the files you want to add into a folder created by iTunes named "automatically add to iTunes" or something like that, found under the folder "iTunes media". I always do this without iTunes running, so I don't know how i

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] Get album date tag info?

2011-05-21 Thread mondo
Yeah, re-applying replay gain is probably faster. I want to fix some date tags though. For instance, I want the year an album was originally released to show rather than when an album was re-released. I also have lots of live "bootleg" recordings, some have date tags and some don't. This will give

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] FLAC or Apple Lossless ?

2011-05-21 Thread aubuti
garym;632508 Wrote: > When in itunes, simply click on FILE > ADD FOLDER TO LIBRARY and select > the top directory (i.e., D:\mp3duplicates) as the one you want to add. > Itunes will skip over (not re-add) the files/subdirectories that have > already been added. okay, thanks. I had vague memories

[SlimDevices: Ripping] OS X Service to Add Album Art to FLAC

2011-05-21 Thread Tony T
After learning about Album Art Exchange (http://www.albumartexchange.com/) in this Forum, I needed an easier way to add the artwork to my Flac files in OS X. I was unable to find an Apple App that I liked to do the work, so I just wrote a simple Automator Service to do it. (You must have FLAC in

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] FLAC or Apple Lossless ?

2011-05-21 Thread maggior
No, you remember correctly. iTunes used to create duplicates. I'll have to try this with my library and see how it goes. -- maggior Rich - Setup: 2 SB3s, 4 Booms, 1 Duet, 1 Receiver, 1 Touch, iPeng on iPod Touch. SuSE 11.0 Server running SqueezeBoxServer 7.5.0, MusicIP, and SqueezeS

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] FLAC or Apple Lossless ?

2011-05-21 Thread garym
maggior;632586 Wrote: > No, you remember correctly. iTunes used to create duplicates. I'll > have to try this with my library and see how it goes. h, haven't done this step in a while, but I've used itunes since about 97 or 98 and was always able to use this approach (probably weekly back

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] FLAC or Apple Lossless ?

2011-05-21 Thread Wirrunna
aubuti;632499 Wrote: > > Sorry to stray off-topic, but this one currently interests me. I got > rid of iTunes several years ago, but then had to bring it back recently > after buying an iPod touch (primarily to control my SBs, but secondarily > as a portable player playing my MP3 copies). When I

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] OS X Service to Add Album Art to FLAC

2011-05-21 Thread Ron Olsen
If you are playing FLAC files using SBS, there's no benefit to embedding cover art in the FLAC files. A cover.jpg or folder.jpg in the album directory will do just fine. -- Ron Olsen Ron Olsen's Profile: http://forums.sli

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] OS X Service to Add Album Art to FLAC

2011-05-21 Thread paulster
Some people (like me) don't want to have to worry about having ancillary files in order to get their artwork to display properly, and want it to be easily transportable to other formats including said artwork (via flac2mp3 for example), so embedded artwork definitely has its benefits depending on