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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!
edesilva

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kenn39
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Cwlondon,

Edesilva is talking about lossless compression, fundamentally differently from MP3 which is a lossy compression.

There should be no sonic difference between lossless compression and uncompressed, by definition.
kenn39
75 posts
 
One way to augment WAV files is to use a very long file name like "Artist, Album, Song title". Someone pointed out that SlimServer/Squeezebox can parse this information correctly, so you can search by artist, album or song as if the files are tagged.
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