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. At the moment I'm forced to maintain a duplicate MP3 library
for this purpose (
native would mean that the player can play the format, otherwise the
server have to transcode.
some formats are played directly on the player and some needs help by
the server, wich formats depends on wich player you have.
Touch has some native alac being implemented but it is buggy so it's
turned
You have a lot of company - many of use maintain 2 libraries; 1 for use
with the squeezebox (FLAC) and one for portable usage (mp3).
With cheap multi-terabyte drives available both for serer use and
backup (external drives), the storage issue of maintaining a seperate
lossy library is less of an
I've used ALAC since I got my Touch just over a year ago. I've never had
any real issues with doing so, although I do use a laptop for a server,
so I've got plenty of computing power for transcoding. And yes I have
vinyl rips as well as DVD-A rips in 96/24 and never had a problem
(although I have
Sounds like you're on a Mac. If so, I have an Applescript that can
convert FLAC to iTunes (you have a choice of a "lossless", "aac",
"aiff", "mp3", or "wav"). You can send the output directly to iTunes
or to a directory. If interested, see:
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?s=&showt
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
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
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
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
No, you remember correctly. iTunes used to create duplicates. I'll
have to try this with my library and see how it goes.
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maggior
Rich
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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
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
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
aubuti;632499 Wrote:
> Mobile support for FLAC isn't mainstream, but it's hardly non-existent.
> Rockbox (free alternative firmware) works on many players, and it
> supports FLAC. There are also some players (Cowan?) with support for
> FLAC in the stock software
Actually Cowon and Sandisk have s
Saying that SanDisk has supported FLAC and large SDHC cards for years is
a little too sweeping. For example, my SanDisk Sansa did not support
either FLAC or large SD cards out of the box -- I had to install
Rockbox to get those features. On the other hand, SanDisk does support
replacing their firm
My experience:
I use apple lossless, itunes, SB3/Boom and an iPhone
I use iTunes to manage all media (any new rips I add to the "Auto add
to iTunes" folder, but mostly I use iTunes store for new stuff coz it's
a damn sight easier)
SBS keeps itself in sync with iTunes
Itunes transcodes stuff to
aubuti;632620 Wrote:
> Saying that SanDisk has supported FLAC and large SDHC cards for years is
> a little too sweeping. For example, my SanDisk Sansa did not support
> either FLAC or large SD cards out of the box -- I had to install
> Rockbox to get those features. On the other hand, SanDisk doe
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