If you were starting from scratch and did not own ANY DRM-ed AAC audio files what software library player (on the desktop PC) would you use?
I've heard Apple's iTunes is the best music interface (on the computer).
Now first and foremost I am starting my library and down the road will purchase a portable music player.
Okay I am about to start converting my CD library for the very first time.
Hardrives are cheap enough and only getting cheaper.
I don't want to take the time to have to compress/transcode to a lossless format but I'm concerned with a portable player being able to store more songs and not use up the battery playing .WAV files off the harddrive (currently a 160GB or larger portable music player with a HDD not 32GB or less flash storage). I WILL NOT be using Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC), Apple's Apple Lossless, MPEG-4 ALS, Monkey's Audio, and TTA lossless file formats at all.
I will probably start next year ripping my audio CDs to .WAV and have the Gracenote thing just give me the song titles & album names.
I'm a big picture guy. I will save all my (16-bit/44.1kHz) .WAV files on a HDD forever.
Down the road I will convert from the .WAV files to whatever (MP3, The current version of the MPEG-4 Audio/ISO/IEC 14496-3:2009 AKA MPEG-4 HE-AAC v2). At the moment I have Adobe Audition 2.0 software which I can make MP3s from but not MPEG-4 HE-AAC v2 files.
Also I'm not familiar with what software I can do batch encodes to MPEG-4 HE-AAC v2 from that will keep all the metadata.
I'd rather not get into any of these topics here:
-portable player hardware
-DACs-from-computer
-"PC vs MAC"
-lossless audio codecs vs lossy audio codecs
but just discuss the software to manage my library and make playlists.
If you were starting from scratch and did not own ANY DRM-ed AAC audio files what software library player (on the desktop PC) would you use?
I've heard Apple's iTunes is the best music interface (on the computer).
Now first and foremost I am starting my library and down the road will purchase a portable music player.
Okay I am about to start converting my CD library for the very first time.
Hardrives are cheap enough and only getting cheaper.
I don't want to take the time to have to compress/transcode to a lossless format but I'm concerned with a portable player being able to store more songs and not use up the battery playing .WAV files off the harddrive (currently a 160GB or larger portable music player with a HDD not 32GB or less flash storage). I WILL NOT be using Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC), Apple's Apple Lossless, MPEG-4 ALS, Monkey's Audio, and TTA lossless file formats at all.
I will probably start next year ripping my audio CDs to .WAV and have the Gracenote thing just give me the song titles & album names.
I'm a big picture guy. I will save all my (16-bit/44.1kHz) .WAV files on a HDD forever.
Down the road I will convert from the .WAV files to whatever (MP3, The current version of the MPEG-4 Audio/ISO/IEC 14496-3:2009 AKA MPEG-4 HE-AAC v2). At the moment I have Adobe Audition 2.0 software which I can make MP3s from but not MPEG-4 HE-AAC v2 files.
Also I'm not familiar with what software I can do batch encodes to MPEG-4 HE-AAC v2 from that will keep all the metadata.
I'd rather not get into any of these topics here:
-portable player hardware
-DACs-from-computer
-"PC vs MAC"
-lossless audio codecs vs lossy audio codecs
but just discuss the software to manage my library and make playlists.