2. pc-audio
  3. 1135099401

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
cwlondon
1,210 posts
 
Edesilva

As you know, I have agonized over this topic to no avail for quite some time.

MP3's may be getting better, but with hard drives only getting cheaper, why bother?!

After all, this is AUDIOgon, not CONVENIENCEgon, or MASSMARKETgon, or MIDFIgon.

Thank you for a miraculous breakthrough, just in time for the holidays.
kennyt's avatar
kennyt
1,226 posts
 
Now if they only made EAC for us MAC users.....
kenn39
75 posts
 
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.
More to discover