Ripping Madness

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And you need an iTunes account remember for the automatic art download (not that it is the best to be fair) to function.

[Carson]

I personally would recommend Winamp.
I used it to rip a CD collection of 325 albums in FLAC with all appropriate Tags, except (and I regret it now ) album art. Apart from that, it took me about 5 minutes per CD if I remember right and 99% of the time it would automatically tag the songs and name them appropriately.

For managing all my music files after they have been ripped, I use TagScanner to rename, edit tags, apply album art, etc. It is a very powerful tool!

Hello everyone by the way....yes, I am indeed new here

James

[The Grand Wazoo]

Hi James,
A very warm welcome to The Art of Sound.
Perhaps you could indulge us all by getting yourself off to the 'Welcome' section to formally say hello and tell us a bit about yourself. (Not everyone will be reading posts in this section). Then, you could scurry off to the Gallery & post many, many fantastic photos of your system in all it's glory! We love to see photos!

Cheers

[Carson]

Hi James,
A very warm welcome to The Art of Sound.
Perhaps you could indulge us all by getting yourself off to the 'Welcome' section to formally say hello and tell us a bit about yourself. (Not everyone will be reading posts in this section). Then, you could scurry off to the Gallery & post many, many fantastic photos of your system in all it's glory! We love to see photos!

Cheers

Ooh, I'd forgotten about the welcome section. I shall pay that a visit shortly.
Photos might be a little more tricky for reasons I shall explain in the welcome section, but we shall see.

[webby]

all in aiff tagged, artwork etc etc

Hi Steve,

I'm also a mac man through and through.

May I ask why you chose to rip to aiff rather than say, alac?

I know you said not to ask, but I'm intrigued.

Are lossless formats actually lossy?

Lee

[Themis]

Hi Steve,

I'm also a mac man through and through.

May I ask why you chose to rip to aiff rather than say, alac?

I know you said not to ask, but I'm intrigued.

Are lossless formats actually lossy?

Lee

AIFF is easier to stream, I guess : it is accepted by a wide range of servers.
MUch more future-proof than ALAC.

[webby]

Some streamers don't accept ALAC then?

[Themis]

Some streamers don't accept ALAC then?

Plenty of streamers don't accept ALAC.
ALAC is a proprietary format and -normally- you need Apple software to decode it. Apple can change it without notice to unauthorized users. In other words, you need Apple's assistance to bundle it into a streamer.

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But with the market share that iTunes has it would be wise to manufacturers to include it I would say.

Which streamers don't support it out of interest?

[Themis]

Which streamers don't support it out of interest?

Squeezebox, don't support it natively, for instance. You need server decoding.
Neither Denon nor Sony streamers support it. And it won't change, I assure you.

The main problem is that ALAC is not used for electronically distributing lossless music. Only FLAC or WMA lossless are used.