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Post by DYohn on Nov 17, 2012 20:04:07 GMT -5
I gave up on iTunes a long time ago, back when it couldn't handle a large collection. MediaMonkey has been working great for my 34375 tracks (and growing). YMMV... I just checked my iTunes library, and it tells me I have 93,328 tracks. 2154 Gb
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hemster
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Post by hemster on Nov 17, 2012 20:08:37 GMT -5
I gave up on iTunes a long time ago, back when it couldn't handle a large collection. MediaMonkey has been working great for my 34375 tracks (and growing). YMMV... I just checked my iTunes library, and it tells me I have 93,328 tracks. 2154 Gb So iTunes now handles large collections. Still, no going back to it for me.
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Post by selkec on Nov 17, 2012 20:16:02 GMT -5
I hate i tunes... no apple stuff for me. I leave that to the hipsters jk thats what i tell my best friend anyways reallly though. I just dont like it. I prefer to store my files as mp3 or whatever it may be and make my own files and folders
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Post by Boomzilla on Nov 17, 2012 20:21:23 GMT -5
You MUST add it to the Library if you want to play it using iTunes. Just putting a track into the folder doesn't mean iTunes will play it. That's exactly my issue - the tracks I seek WERE added to the library by ripping CDs from within iTunes & worked perfectly for about two weeks. Then, although iTunes still shows the tracks as being part of the library, it neither plays them nor exhibits an exclamation point in the leftmost column (indicating that iTunes can't find the track).
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Post by bootman on Nov 17, 2012 20:25:34 GMT -5
I gave up on iTunes a long time ago, back when it couldn't handle a large collection. MediaMonkey has been working great for my 34375 tracks (and growing). YMMV... I just checked my iTunes library, and it tells me I have 93,328 tracks. 2154 Gb Well you run itunes on OSX. Itunes runs perfect on that.
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Post by Boomzilla on Nov 17, 2012 20:26:22 GMT -5
Well you run itunes on OSX. Itunes runs perfect on that. Those winks just kill me...
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hemster
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Post by hemster on Nov 17, 2012 20:34:44 GMT -5
Does iTunes now handle multiple libraries? It didn't when I ditched it.
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Post by kml on Nov 17, 2012 20:59:30 GMT -5
Buy a cheap used PC laptop, use MacDrive to copy the file to a PC hard drive, download MediaMonkey or J.River, enjoy your music.
J.River supports AIFF files natively, MediaMonkey requires a plug in.
Both sync Idevices.
cheers ken
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Post by wizardofoz on Nov 17, 2012 22:12:22 GMT -5
I thought itunes maxed out 25000 toons ...maybe thats just in the cloud.
Im looking at options to re-rip my cd's and have been using vortexbox.org which has support to mirror from flac to alac and/or mp3 too.
itunes is for the most part painless for most people....but some will push the friendship and break it.
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Post by Porscheguy on Nov 17, 2012 23:24:55 GMT -5
Does iTunes now handle multiple libraries? It didn't when I ditched it. Yes it does..
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Post by Porscheguy on Nov 17, 2012 23:26:33 GMT -5
I gave up on iTunes a long time ago, back when it couldn't handle a large collection. MediaMonkey has been working great for my 34375 tracks (and growing). YMMV... I just checked my iTunes library, and it tells me I have 93,328 tracks. 2154 Gb Are you kiddin me? 93000 tracks? Holy moly I have 8000 and figured 20,000 to be a lot...
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2012 3:28:49 GMT -5
This is what you get when you trade "convenience" for performance. I will NEVER cede control of my music and movie files to any Apple products. Do yourself a favor and ditch it right now. Instead, get a copy of FLAC (FREE!!), Foobar 2000 (FREE!!) and dbPowerAmp (~ $50). This will give you the best quality and full control over the placement and use of your music libraries. www.foobar2000.org/flac.sourceforge.net/And dbPowerAmp has a batch processing mode that will allow you to convert your current AIFF or ALAC-encoded files very easily to any of a number of other lossless file formats - FLAC, WAV, WAVPack, APE, etc. www.dbpoweramp.com/DVDFab is a terrific video ripper/encoder and can be purchased for $45-90. www.dvdfabb.com/-RW-
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2012 8:33:52 GMT -5
> I agree about the cloud, I would not do that either, but FLAC and Apple Lossless (ALAC) give identical results, there is no advantage to one over the other
I live in a Windows world. My music lives on a 2tb harddrive; networked to everything. It was a mix of FLAC and mp3s, but I converted the Flac to Apple lossless when I got my iPhone, and discovered the proprietary nature of the Apple Universe. I use iTunes to load music files into the iPhone, but find it difficult to use and unstable and slow with large libraries.
Get someone to give you an old windows 7 machine. Put a 2-tb harddrive in it, add JRiver software, dbPowerAmp for ripping and conversion, and you've got a great music storage and player.
Sincerely /b
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Post by Porscheguy on Nov 18, 2012 8:55:13 GMT -5
FLAC is great, but SQ wise it offers no advantage to ALAC. I chose Apple a long time ago for iPod reasons long before I had a NAS server and Sonos or even thought about streaming music to my system. I can think of no compelling reason to switch now, 800 cd's in. I do wish Apple offered FLAC support for HD tracks though but I'm not paying $75.00 to download a HD album.. This is what you get when you trade "convenience" for performance. I will NEVER cede control of my music and movie files to any Apple products. Do yourself a favor and ditch it right now. Instead, get a copy of FLAC (FREE!!), Foobar 2000 (FREE!!) and dbPowerAmp (~ $50). This will give you the best quality and full control over the placement and use of your music libraries. www.foobar2000.org/flac.sourceforge.net/And dbPowerAmp has a batch processing mode that will allow you to convert your current AIFF or ALAC-encoded files very easily to any of a number of other lossless file formats - FLAC, WAV, WAVPack, APE, etc. www.dbpoweramp.com/DVDFab is a terrific video ripper/encoder and can be purchased for $45-90. www.dvdfabb.com/-RW-
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Post by hemster on Nov 18, 2012 11:41:54 GMT -5
...I do wish Apple offered FLAC support for HD tracks though but I'm not paying $75.00 to download a HD album.. There are many many HD tracks available for well under $75 at several places. e.g. www.hdtracks.com/index.php.
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Post by djoel on Nov 18, 2012 16:58:20 GMT -5
I have over 3800 songs, about 25.5GB in my Itunes and 187 in a hard drive which I can never seem to link them, or rather get I tunes to recognize them even though some of the art work are there on Itunes page they'll just wont play. Well that's not my biggest issue, I notice that my Ipod touch had a bunch of the songs doubled up, which was annoying as hell. So I decided to to reset the ipod, but now I get translucent names of groups, songs and albums which I can't play! This is incredibly frustrating.
Why does this all have to be so complicated!!!!
Just ranting
Dan
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Post by audiofile on Nov 18, 2012 17:06:39 GMT -5
Sorry to hear you are having so many problems. Initially it was my music management system but I never really got into it except to manage iPod playlists and such. When I embraced digital audio I ripped all my CD's to FLAC, downloaded FLAC files of what I wanted where I could find it and basically rebuilt the library behind it. I did keep my iTunes files and update iTunes routinely to be able to download stuff I can't find in a FLAC file elsewhere.
I've never had any of the problems you listed so I wonder if there isn't a basic issue here such as making sure you have added the file to the iTunes library vs. just individual tracks from a file or folder that exists elsewhere on your computer.
Good luck!
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Post by Boomzilla on Nov 18, 2012 17:36:21 GMT -5
Well, the genius bar got things working again - Said they had no idea why iTunes had lost the albums - We had to reload the albums from another backup - The music on the library drive wasn't misplaced - it was GONE.
The recommendation from the genius bar was not to mess with anything more until iTunes 11 is loaded - It may again change the preferred directory structure.
Not the replies that I wanted...
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Post by AudioHTIT on Nov 18, 2012 17:36:56 GMT -5
...I do wish Apple offered FLAC support for HD tracks though but I'm not paying $75.00 to download a HD album.. There are many many HD tracks available for well under $75 at several places. e.g. www.hdtracks.com/index.php. Yeah, I think most 96/24 HDTracks are what CDs used to be, around $18, and they often have 10,15 or 20% off sales. For iTunes you do have to convert to ALAC, I use XLD on the iMac which is pretty easy.
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Post by Porscheguy on Nov 18, 2012 17:45:32 GMT -5
I just love it when everyone is awash in explaining new ideas and thoughts.
Please continue...
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