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I'm sure like most of you guys and girls here have or are gaining a huge collection of music files...be it mp3, ogg, etc. I spent the majority of my thanksgiving weekend tagging and organizing files on the 120 gig hard drive i bought. currently i have at least 100 gigs filled. and i need some software that will help me tag these files (the ones that need it) quicker. also organize folders & information. i have a minidisc player too, but instead of carrying around 10 minidiscs i'd rather carry around one unit...which leads me to my ipod questions. are they really worth it? if i load a 60 gig up to full capacity will it shit the bed, be slow etc? is itunes a pain in the ass? does it reformat all of your files? does it allow you to only transfer certain files to the ipod? i'm bassically looking for people that have or use this program to explain the pros & cons. i'm just considering the possiblities...if you hate apple and know of good alternatives please feel free to post the alternatives...and not your hate for apple ;) |
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I don't think there is any problem with filling up the HD. I like iTunes, I use it anyway. It doesn't have to reformat all your files. Yes you can transfer only certain files. |
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takes a while to load, and takes up a lot of memory.. but does the job very, very well. |
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just music files correct...MP3, WMA, AIFF, OGG? and what kind of video files?? |
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i have an ipod just got it back from being repaired they're built like mobile phones - built as part of the throw-away culture. they inevitably break after a certain amount of time. I'd get something else. apparently the new creative zens don't have that old GAY headphone socket problem, so investigate one of them. they're cheaper too. |
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oh yeah and ipods don't do ogg. neither does itunes. gay. i think they do the rest though. certainly mp3/wma. |
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FLAC? |
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has anyone figured out how to just drag and drop files into a usb connected minidisc? i hate the sony software...if i could just do that i'd forget about getting another mp3 player and continue using my minidisc |
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Yeah oggs need to be converted, and I don't use flac so I don't know |
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i can't imagine they do flac. |
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they do apple lossless however |
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does flac I think there might be another |
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I don't think iPods are drag-and-drop, you have to import through iTunes I think, is that right? |
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yes hence, if you're considering buying one, id3-tagit is the only way to go |
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redrum thanks for that program its FUCKING ACEEEEEE!!! and its going to prevent years of crippling typing for me :) :) |
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i'm learning more about this program and its frickin Great....download this shit...its the bomb baby |
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i just bought the 30gn ipod and use itunes, and i have no probs. itunes gives you the option whether you want it to automatically re-organise your songs or not (which i let it do) and have been manually sorting the rest out. it organises it like so: artist (folder) -> albums (folders) - > songs (files) songs are formatted like so; 01 Trackname 02 Track name and if its a double cd then; 1-01 Trackname 2-01 Trackname etc. This actually works nicely in that you can listen to an album in its proper order (not in alphabetical order) but meta data is important to apple i think and makes itunes really flexible. so you can sort by genre, grouping, year, composer etc. this also means you can select all songs by composer (if u have filled in that field) which is useful if you want to add all richard d james tunes to a 'smart playlist' without worrying about all his aliases. smart playlists are pretty cool too; you can, for example, add all the songs in your hip-hop and rap genres, exclude the year 1995, include only the songs you have recently added or whatever.. and you can set it to shuffle in a playlist too - useful at mates houses or parties where you have quickly setup an appropriate playlist to play through randomly. it also tells you how many tunes you have, how much that is in gbs and how long it would take you to listen to them. you can also synch it with your ipod so that it automaticlly updates. if u have usb 2.0 the time it takes isnt actually that bad (i do it incremently though)... hope this helps, any more questions just ask. oh and you can customise scripts for itunes if youre arsed ill find the link on the apple site. |
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I don't know why people would want FLAC or OGG or other lossless on a portable MP3 player. It seems wierd. For one, you wouldn't be able to put as much music on it, and more importantly, if you don't have really expensive earphones, and listen in a really quiet environment, I can't imagine you could hear the difference that lossless provides. 192vbr is quite enough for me and my mid-range earphones. |
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just remember with ipods, what you put on the ipod you cant rip back to your pc hdd with itunes (which is putting it very mildly, very annoying). although handy little app called ephpod can rip the mp3s back to your pc hdd. out of personal experience, use itunes to import files to ipod and ephpod to export files from ipod. had to reformat my 20gb ipod when ephpod tried importing files to it. wasnt a fun experience. |
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i agree |
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