ITunes is great for my iPod, which is great for music at work (Zappa doing Heartbreak Hotel/Whipping Post medly at present) or on the go, but why limit yourself to mp3s at home? Get at least wav files, and they pale in comparison to higher res stuff you can rip from your own lps! iTunes is a wonderful convienence, but it is not hard or expensive to get much better sound. I have ripped well over 4,000 CDs so I believe that I have just a wee bit of experience and expertise in this area. While I don't use either of these programs both can used for playback and library management, if you so chose but, I repeat, never use them to rip or burn anything! They are both complete pieces of trash and totally useless. I already gave you a "better answer" in this thread (comment #6 "Helpful hint?"):ġ) Don't rip to or use wav files, use one of the many good losslessly compressed format such as flac or Apple lossless.Ģ) Use a good ripping program, such as dbPowerAmp (not free but easy to set up and configure) or Exact Audio Copy (free and very good, once you get it properly configured, not as easy as dbPowerAmp but very doable).ģ) Properly tag the files with a good tagging program such as mp3tag.Ĥ) And most importantly never, ever use either iTunes or Windows Media Player to RIP anything. I have a laptop that I burned all the cds through to an external hard drive, and it works well, but If I try to move the hard drive to another computer, the meta data is gone, and the tracks are messed up as well( all of the first tracks of my 500 cds, are missing and found in a folder named Unknown. But you need to rip using their software. My understanding is these 3rd party software progams can help considerably. I would call J River, to see what they reccomend. I used Windows Media Player 11, but that was a mistake. I too have ripped to WAV, and was able to get perhaps 95% of the art and meta data.
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