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06-12-2009, 05:37 AM
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Most likely dumb question- importing files into Foobar2000 from iTunes help needed
I have used iTunes for a long time (nothing else). Help me with the importing of the hundreds of folders created automatically by iTunes into Foobar2000 (Vista with WASAPI). Maybe 40%-50% have no tag info (just ? symbols). Do I have to enter all that manually?
I am talking thousands of files here!
Please walk me thru the process as though I were 8 years old..... thanks.
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06-12-2009, 06:13 AM
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just add your music folder ( usually my music for itunes ) to media library of foobar.
I think that should be enough.
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06-12-2009, 12:49 PM
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I did this very thing and a huge portion of the files did not get tagged with info (artist, title etc.)- how can I fix this without going into every song and editing it- this would take days? iTunes recognizes them, why doesn't Foobar?
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06-12-2009, 03:47 PM
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try something like mp3tag if you are not familiar with foobar's tagging options
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06-12-2009, 04:54 PM
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What version of Foobar are you using? What version of ID3 tags are your files tagged with?
Some versions of Foobar tagged files with ID3v2.4 which iTunes wasn't able to read (not sure what the status is these days ...). Not sure if there are any problems the other way round - i.e. iTunes tagged files read in Foobar. Anyway, I suspect what you have is a case of different version of ID3 tags.
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06-12-2009, 11:00 PM
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Well after an overly difficult search (maybe I'm a bad at this), it would appear that Foobar2000 cannot tag WAV and AIFF files- this was probably very obvious to many of you but I am just getting into it. I am down-converting iTunes to version 7 and using the multi plugin to allow Foobar200 playback with iTunes interface.
That was much harder than I wanted it to be!
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06-13-2009, 03:26 AM
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Okay, tried several versions of iTunes 7 with the multi-plugin to no avail- all crash or won't install correctly. Not sure what to do at this point.
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06-13-2009, 11:37 PM
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I am going to suck it up and try a few CD rips with EAC (though that won't tag correctly either) to FLAC for use with Foobar2000 and see how things sound. Someone needs a program that makes this all easier (like iTunes does wonderfully but with optimized sound quality in mind like Foobar).
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06-14-2009, 03:40 AM
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add the itunes music folder and it will play all the unprotected acc files. all new files are unprotected but old songs are tied to itunes  .
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06-14-2009, 04:26 AM
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I read that someone changed their email address (associated with EAC-freedb) and got freedb to work.....and it did work! It has found 4 out of the last 5 rips. Only about 1000 hours left of ripping.......hmmmm
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06-15-2009, 12:20 AM
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Try dBpoweramp.
If there are tags it will read them and use them. If you rip CDs it has a nice lookup feature that will get the info. I am spoiled by this and highly recommend it.
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06-18-2009, 01:28 AM
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I use dBpoweramp as well on my PC, it's quick (compared to EAC), easy to use and it will tag your files correctly. I've just switched over to MAC and had a hard time finding a comparable S/W, but eventually I found "Max" which works equally well as dBpoweramp. To me, EAC isn't worth it because of the trouble of setting it up and the time it takes to rip a CD. I for sure can't hear any difference between the different rippers...
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06-18-2009, 02:02 AM
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Well, I have everything working pretty well. Damn, but the learning curve gets old when you're my age (41). Ripping in EAC is not too bad, maybe 7-8 minutes each and just about every CD tag is found. I also downloaded Columns_UI and it works 80% as well as iTunes and all is good. It's kind of a good thing as I am ripping some CD's I haven't heard in a while that I had at low res in iTunes, now lossless.
Thanks for the input.
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