lee730
Headphoneus Supremus
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Once you go FLAC you never go back . Just get Media Monkey and rip in FLAC and be done with it. Actually I think it may even support ALAC so that would give you more options. I use m3u files. Much more organized and easy to work with. Plus I control the program it doesn't control me .
I'd be interested too. This is speculation, but:
- I doubt that the AK100 will handle the whole proprietary Apple playlist thing as easily as iDevices do, even if the audio formats will be supported.
- I don't know of any player/manager in all the years I have dealt with these (Apple or otherwise) that would duplicate the actual tracks because they're in different lists: they're just that: a list. If anything, you might get error messages or skips from missing tracks. Most, incl. iTunes, try to copy over the tracks ONCE if you copy a playlist that contains tracks not already on the player.
- iTunes can export playlists in a variety of formats incl. common standards like .m3u, so it would already be a great help if the AK100 could process one of those (even if the associated tracks need to be copied over manually)
- Of course, without ALAC support on the AK100 for now and no -default- FLAC support in iTunes creating usable playlists might be a bit more tricky...
- iRiver have their own manager but I haven't checked yet if there is even a Mac version... and as much as I'm not particularly fond of iTunes in any version, almost all alternatives I have tried were either flawed in a different way or plain worse...
Once you go FLAC you never go back . Just get Media Monkey and rip in FLAC and be done with it. Actually I think it may even support ALAC so that would give you more options. I use m3u files. Much more organized and easy to work with. Plus I control the program it doesn't control me .