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iTunes & EAC

I was going through all sorts of shenanigans to use EAC to rip and iTunes for playback. Because .wav files don't carry tag information, I was having to do strange things to recover tag info from file structures, etc.

Then someone turned me onto this:

http://www.rarewares.org/files/aac/iTunesEncode46.zip

It allows you to use iTunes as a Lossless encoder called via commandline from EAC. In so doing, it adds files ripped using EAC to iTunes, complete with tag data from freedb!
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cwlondon
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Edesilva

As you know, I have agonized over this topic to no avail for quite some time.

MP3's may be getting better, but with hard drives only getting cheaper, why bother?!

After all, this is AUDIOgon, not CONVENIENCEgon, or MASSMARKETgon, or MIDFIgon.

Thank you for a miraculous breakthrough, just in time for the holidays.
cwlondon
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ah....iTunes as a "lossless encoder"....

Maybe I was getting prematurely excited when I saw "WAV"

My issue with Apple lossless is that there may be some weird, embedded, copyright type scheme in their algorithim.

OK... maybe its perfect, maybe its bit for bit, maybe it UNcompresses to WAV like perfection.

But what irritates me, given that hard drive space is only getting cheaper and that 30+ CD's, for example, should be more than enough for the gym, is why people havent just figured out WAV + TAGGING?

But hey if "there should be no sonic difference" than perhaps we are already there, just where we need to be?

But I have heard that before re MP3, which sounded like crap, even with cotton in my ears.

In any case, I am glad to see people focusing on this topic and Edesilva thanks again.
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