blessingx Posted September 5, 2009 Report Share Posted September 5, 2009 One other post-15 minute thought - depending on the obscurity of specific test tracks, they may or may not have been fingerprinted by the community, thus rely on tags... or ignore them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pars Posted December 26, 2009 Report Share Posted December 26, 2009 Similar so I just tacked on to this thread. Sorry for being clueless when it comes to itunes and ipods. If I rip CDs using Max as ALACs and get them added to my itunes library, is there anyway that I can copy these over to my ipod but encoded in a lossy format to save space? And recommended format or bitrate? Mostly rock, so 160kbps? higher? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Chalk Posted December 27, 2009 Report Share Posted December 27, 2009 This is what I do: Change my settings to lossless;Rip CD's (usually, a batch at a time);Change my options to lossy (specifically, MP3, 228? something VBR);Select all the Apple Lossless files I just generated (sort by Date Added makes it easy, as long as I'm not doing anything else with iTunes, which I have to admit, I've done once or thrice);Right-click -> create MP3 version;Profit! I actually keep them in two separate folders, too, but that also requires me to stop the thing when I hit "okay" after changing my settings. Let me know if you need more detail, or if that helps. Bitrate is up to you -- I started out lossless, then went to 320, then went to where I am now -- and that's sufficient. This is mostly for car listening, so my requirements are even lower than yours, but I have it set higher than I can hear by a goodly margin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salt Peanuts Posted December 28, 2009 Report Share Posted December 28, 2009 (edited) Pars, there's an Apple Script that does what you want (mostly) automatically for you. I'll see if I can find it. EDIT - Found it. http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=losslessaccworkflow Edited December 28, 2009 by Salt Peanuts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pars Posted December 28, 2009 Report Share Posted December 28, 2009 Thanks. I did it manually after doing some googling and had forgotten about Doug's scripts . I'll take a look at these when I get home later this week. I settled on 192k for car use and seems OK. It woud be nice not to have to store multiple versions; just lossless then downgrade when putting them on the ipod. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salt Peanuts Posted December 28, 2009 Report Share Posted December 28, 2009 One thing with that particular script - it tends to have some problem completing the transfer (to iPod) with shorter tracks. I think Doug talks/talked about that somewhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Chalk Posted December 29, 2009 Report Share Posted December 29, 2009 It woud be nice not to have to store multiple versions; just lossless then downgrade when putting them on the ipod.You can delete them after you put them on the iPod (as long as you're not using the sync option) -- they're certainly recreatable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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