bangraman
Headphoneus Supremus
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Yes... It turned out that the tagging program goes into protest go slow mode if you put it inthe background.
Apparently my set-up's pretty bad. Athlon 2200, 1Gb Ram on this particular machine, a fairly old Firewire card with the Ti chipset which came bundled with the scanner, 3MB/sec. Thought that was a bit slow, so I've tried installing it on another PC but it didn't work and I can't be bothered to fiddle. It's still pretty fast, a track a second, so I'm not complaining.
Just thinking out aloud here, but the more I struggle with MP3 management and general media on the PC, the more I'm starting to think I should get an iBook or something just for home entertainment use. Apart from games, I don't really like fiddling with PC's that much, but it's just become clear to me that trying to achieve very simple things on the PC once they're slightly out of the iron (and mostly reliable) grip of an all-Microsoft solution is often a really frustrating experience.
I have friends with Macs and the work or play they manage to get through in the same time as I finally manage to sort some incompatibility or problem out is huge.
Unfortunately a lot of the software I use professionally is not available on the Mac (and Virtual PC is NOT viable) but I'm really tempted to get a little iBook.
Originally posted by richard I don't believe the ipod itself reads tags; I believe the ipod reads its internal database (iTunesDB) which is built by ephpod or MMJB or whatever from the tags In any event, most of my stuff is tagged id3v1 and I have no problems. One song every 20 seconds sounds terribly slow. A command line tagger I use would take less than 10 minutes, I'd guess. It can create tags from filepath info. http://www.saunalahti.fi/~cse/html/tag.html |
Yes... It turned out that the tagging program goes into protest go slow mode if you put it inthe background.
Apparently my set-up's pretty bad. Athlon 2200, 1Gb Ram on this particular machine, a fairly old Firewire card with the Ti chipset which came bundled with the scanner, 3MB/sec. Thought that was a bit slow, so I've tried installing it on another PC but it didn't work and I can't be bothered to fiddle. It's still pretty fast, a track a second, so I'm not complaining.
Just thinking out aloud here, but the more I struggle with MP3 management and general media on the PC, the more I'm starting to think I should get an iBook or something just for home entertainment use. Apart from games, I don't really like fiddling with PC's that much, but it's just become clear to me that trying to achieve very simple things on the PC once they're slightly out of the iron (and mostly reliable) grip of an all-Microsoft solution is often a really frustrating experience.
I have friends with Macs and the work or play they manage to get through in the same time as I finally manage to sort some incompatibility or problem out is huge.
Unfortunately a lot of the software I use professionally is not available on the Mac (and Virtual PC is NOT viable) but I'm really tempted to get a little iBook.