vulc4n
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For a little background, I've been ripping all my music in lossless for years now. In my mind I've more or less perfected the process. I currently have a Windows server that I use DBPA CD Ripper on. It has an amazing ability to fetch accurate metadata and also makes great use of the AccurateRip DB.
Now, at the beginning of the summer I officially switched over to using OS X as my primary OS. It took me a little while to get used to using iTunes, but eventually I did. Granted, iTunes in OS X is much nicer than it is in Windows (imo).
Now, the problem comes when I want to start using lossless files in iTunes. Okay, so I can't use my FLAC files... I can live with that. The real problem comes in when I try to use a large library of lossless files with an iPod/iPhone. Apple provides to way to automatically transcode files to a losssy format to put on my portable player. To accomplish this I have to maintain two entirely separate itunes libraries. Admittedly, this is possible but it is nothing less than a royal pain in the %^&.
I was hoping iTunes 8 might address this problem, but alas it has not. This is a feature that every other good media management program has... Hell, the fundamentals of what needs to be done for this to work are already there for the iPod Shuffle players. They just need to implement a file cache so that syncing a larger player is actually bearable.
Anyway... I will continue to make do with my single library of MP3's until something does happen.
Sorry for the long post, just wanted to vent my frustration.
Now, at the beginning of the summer I officially switched over to using OS X as my primary OS. It took me a little while to get used to using iTunes, but eventually I did. Granted, iTunes in OS X is much nicer than it is in Windows (imo).
Now, the problem comes when I want to start using lossless files in iTunes. Okay, so I can't use my FLAC files... I can live with that. The real problem comes in when I try to use a large library of lossless files with an iPod/iPhone. Apple provides to way to automatically transcode files to a losssy format to put on my portable player. To accomplish this I have to maintain two entirely separate itunes libraries. Admittedly, this is possible but it is nothing less than a royal pain in the %^&.
I was hoping iTunes 8 might address this problem, but alas it has not. This is a feature that every other good media management program has... Hell, the fundamentals of what needs to be done for this to work are already there for the iPod Shuffle players. They just need to implement a file cache so that syncing a larger player is actually bearable.
Anyway... I will continue to make do with my single library of MP3's until something does happen.
Sorry for the long post, just wanted to vent my frustration.