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| Thread ID: 116115 | 2011-02-17 07:48:00 | Where does iTunes hide ripped CDs? | Billy T (70) | Press F1 |
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| 1179231 | 2011-02-18 10:04:00 | It was 100% trouble free and 100% reliable, so I forgave its bulk, its name and its parentage and adopted it into the family. Now I think it's been smoking crack and sleeping with shemales. :lol: And that's why you should never trust an Apple product. EAC has never let me down and I have no reason to suspect it ever will... Sorry I can't post anything actually helpful to the situation but given that I have only even used iTunes for about 5 minutes I have no idea what it's supposed to do. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1179232 | 2011-02-18 10:47:00 | This player works quite well and has a free ripper which I have not tried, it used to cost but is now free: Spider Player Pro (Now Free) 2.5.3: www.freewarefiles.com |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1179233 | 2011-02-18 23:24:00 | Okay! I found them, m4a was the lead, and the default XP location is My Documents> My Music> iTunes >[album name]>[track names]. So, I've done a search for m4a to 'Mp3 player' compatibilty but can't make sense of the answers, and I've also searched for info on whether my iRiver H300 will play m4a but also without any luck. Does anybody know the answer to either question? If there is no backwards compatibility, it seems I may have to search for the file for my original iTunes installation if I still have it and install that. I liked the hassle free and unattended way the old iTunes did the ripping. Failing that, I'll see if the "go back machine" can provide a download of the old file, or try out the recommended programs. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 1179234 | 2011-02-18 23:37:00 | To convert m4a to mp3 you might want to try this free converter. www.maniactools.com HTH |
Snorkbox (15764) | ||
| 1179235 | 2011-02-18 23:37:00 | Okay! I found them, m4a was the lead, and the default XP location is My Documents> My Music> iTunes >[album name]>[track names]. So, I've done a search for m4a to 'Mp3 player' compatibilty but can't make sense of the answers, and I've also searched for info on whether my iRiver H300 will play m4a but also without any luck. Does anybody know the answer to either question? If there is no backwards compatibility, it seems I may have to search for the file for my original iTunes installation if I still have it and install that. I liked the hassle free and unattended way the old iTunes did the ripping. Failing that, I'll see if the "go back machine" can provide a download of the old file, or try out the recommended programs. Cheers Billy 8-{) itunes gives you the option of what format you rip the cd at |
plod (107) | ||
| 1179236 | 2011-02-18 23:40:00 | To save you going from m4a to mp3, change it to MP3 before you rip whatever. Under prefs / general / change import cd -> import settings to MP3 encoder | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1179237 | 2011-02-20 08:19:00 | Well, I've tamed the beast, it only remains to see how it behaves. Thanks to Speedy, who alerted me to options I had either long forgotten or never knew, I got back the automatic rip and eject sequence via Edit>Preferences>Import settings>Import and Eject changed the default file destination directory via Edit>preferences>Advanced>Change and File type was changed to MP3 (plus a quality increase) via General>Import Settings>[set file type and quality] For a company that prides itself on simplicity of operation, Apple does not go out of its way to make customisation simple, accessible or intuitive and with its core 'selling a look and a lifestyle' philosophy of 'take the product as we deliver it, like it or lump it', Apple does not seem to encourage customisation at all, even within the features they provide. That's just my opinion of course, your smileage may vary. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 1179238 | 2011-02-20 20:32:00 | Glad to see you sorted it, seems like questions like this turn into a crusade to promote peoples favourite software half the time. A small comment from me, it's better to rip to a new format from the source than to convert between compressed formats as conversion is lossy and the quality suffers every time. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1179239 | 2011-02-20 21:14:00 | Well, I've tamed the beast, it only remains to see how it behaves . Well, it was still a bit feral and didn't want to play nicely . I inserted the CD and it asked if I wanted to delete the existing album copy (presumably the m4a version) so I said yes, then it went ahead, ripped it and ejected the cd, but although the m4a version was gone as requested, it didn't bother to leave an mp3 version in my designated folder, or anywhere else for that matter . I used ZTree to search C & D for the first track as [filename] . * and it was nowhere to be found! :( So, I deleted the apparently 'but not quite' ripped tracks from the iTunes music window and inserted the CD again . It autostarted as expected, and this time it did rip to the general vicinity of my designated destination folder, but added several subfolders of its own instead of just depositing the tracks I wanted . That is no big deal but would still be a nuisance if you were ripping a large number of albums . It got all snotty when I deleted the unwanted subfolders and told me my iPod would suffer, but hey, my iRiver is made of sterner stuff and doesn't give a damn . :D I'll persist with it for the otherwise fully-automated way in which it now operates, especially the auto eject function, because I can rip albums with minimal interruption to my work, but it shouldn't be that hard to get it to behave! Cheers Billy 8-{) |
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