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Post by tony on Oct 16, 2014 16:09:45 GMT
I use I tunes as my media player, all my CDs are ripped lossless I only have red book recordings. I have just bought a sansa clipp and would like to load it and a SD card with tunes- is theyre an easy way to convert files? Im not computer savvy so really need an idiots guide.
Help please.....
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Post by John on Oct 16, 2014 16:29:10 GMT
There are plenty of converters on the market sorry on my mobile so cannot remember sites to recommend conversation is pretty simple on most of them
What player will you be using to playback the files as a lot of them have built in converters
If just storing no need to convert
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Post by tony on Oct 16, 2014 17:38:49 GMT
Can I ghost my I tunes collection so that I could drag and drop anything I want?
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Post by Tim on Oct 16, 2014 19:28:06 GMT
Can I ghost my I tunes collection so that I could drag and drop anything I want? iTunes (IMHO) is the devils work, unless you are a Mac/Apple user and never want to step outside using it this way, if you are it's fine and very easy to use, so suits most users. If you ripped your CD collection using iTunes and it's now in your iTunes Library you are not going to find this easy, if not impossible, especially tagging everything and if you don't have a large collection it might be better to start again. I would go to the below for help, unless anyone has the answer at TAS? It would assist if you described exactly what you have done too. There's plenty of info however in this forum and you won't be the first to ask this question, so Google it too. forums.ilounge.com/Good practice for anyone is to rip a master library to either WAV or FLAC, keep it separate with a backup and then convert from there. If you have a lossless 'master' library you can do anything you want and you never need to re-rip again. If you only have an iTunes library, created by iTunes you are going to be pulling teeth and may find this extremely complicated I'm afraid. |
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Post by canetoad on Oct 17, 2014 0:03:14 GMT
I use Foobar to create MP3 copies for my Sansa Clip from flac versions ripped from CD. It can also be used to convert to WAV and AAC. All you have to do is make sure you have the correct encoder files on your PC.
The original flac files are created using EAC.
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Post by John on Oct 17, 2014 6:00:27 GMT
agree with Tim about having everything backed up in either WAV or FLAC
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2014 6:43:46 GMT
Can I ghost my I tunes collection so that I could drag and drop anything I want? iTunes (IMHO) is the devils work, unless you are a Mac/Apple user and never want to step outside using it this way, if you are it's fine and very easy to use, so suits most users. If you ripped your CD collection using iTunes and it's now in your iTunes Library you are not going to find this easy, if not impossible, especially tagging everything and if you don't have a large collection it might be better to start again. I would go to the below for help, unless anyone has the answer at TAS? It would assist if you described exactly what you have done too. There's plenty of info however in this forum and you won't be the first to ask this question, so Google it too. forums.ilounge.com/Good practice for anyone is to rip a master library to either WAV or FLAC, keep it separate with a backup and then convert from there. If you have a lossless 'master' library you can do anything you want and you never need to re-rip again. If you only have an iTunes library, created by iTunes you are going to be pulling teeth and may find this extremely complicated I'm afraid. Just because its in the library, its not a problem. The actual files are in a readily available folder (users/music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music). I regularly work on them with Audacity although that wouldn't be much good doing batches. You just need to find a suitable converter. Sorry Tim but this is the usual rubbish from non Mac users, its as easy to get out of as any other self imposed prison system. (Assumed you were on a Mac. The files are filed the same way on a PC) |
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Post by tony on Oct 17, 2014 7:07:36 GMT
Many thanks folks.....Im glad I dont have to start again re-ripping. Im on a PC as opposed to a mac.
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Post by Tim on Oct 17, 2014 8:04:47 GMT
Just because its in the library, its not a problem. The actual files are in a readily available folder (users/music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music). That's good to know then Gordon, as previously when I used iTunes (on a PC) the library did not archive the files in any meaningful and easily usable way, so it must have improved - you could never just drag and drop data and the tags were never the same if used in a media player other than iTunes. I take it you know this from working on a PC not a MAC? iTunes for MAC users as I said is fine, use it on a PC and it's not so good, or it didn't use to be, have not used it for many years now. |
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Post by John on Oct 17, 2014 8:57:50 GMT
In the past I used iTunes and had no issues backing up files on windows but did have everything in WAV
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2014 11:21:21 GMT
Just because its in the library, its not a problem. The actual files are in a readily available folder (users/music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music). That's good to know then Gordon, as previously when I used iTunes (on a PC) the library did not archive the files in any meaningful and easily usable way, so it must have improved - you could never just drag and drop data and the tags were never the same if used in a media player other than iTunes. I take it you know this from working on a PC not a MAC? iTunes for MAC users as I said is fine, use it on a PC and it's not so good, or it didn't use to be, have not used it for many years now. Regrettably, I have had to use a Windoze PC for iTunes. I have been ripping a friend's LPs to digital and, as she has no clue at all, have also had to put them all on her PC for her. Once you navigate to the relevant folder, the files are there just the same. As its a PC, they are always in the same place rather than where you want them like the Mac, although I suppose there is a possibility that has changed too. 'Progress' means that things seem to change weekly - or maybe I'm just getting old  |
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Post by Tim on Oct 17, 2014 14:54:13 GMT
'Progress' means that things seem to change weekly - or maybe I'm just getting old Haha, you got that right Gordon - so I reckon you now qualify as the forum iTunes guru, as you are familiar with it on both Windoze and MAC platforms  Two things certain in this world, we're all going to die and everything is going to change and with technology it's exponentially. |
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Post by tony on Oct 17, 2014 16:22:00 GMT
Located the files as Gordon directed and tried to send albums to the sansa clip.The bar runs for the file transfer but the sansa is not getting it, Im thinking the codec is a non starter and I may have to convert to WAV. Feck!!!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2014 16:36:15 GMT
Located the files as Gordon directed and tried to send albums to the sansa clip.The bar runs for the file transfer but the sansa is not getting it, Im thinking the codec is a non starter and I may have to convert to WAV. Feck!!! Ah, so did you let iTunes do all the ripping in the first place? It will deal quite happily with WAV files although I have now converted all of them to Lossless, I did all my friend's files as WAVs but I haven't actually used a PC to copy anything. I had to look up what a Sansa Clip is. Is it MP3 only? Presumably all your music is stored at higher quality than that anyway? This would mean that you would have to convert them all in any case although I have no idea how the Sansa works. I've just looked at iTunes prefs and it will use WAV or MP3 coding so you could just get iTunes to convert them all. I would have to think about how to keep the files somewhere separate so you could send them to the Sansa though. Easy on the Mac, not sure on the PC |
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Post by Tim on Oct 17, 2014 16:41:41 GMT
Beat me to it Gordon, what format are the files in is the pertinent question?
Sansa supports MP3, WMA, secure WMA, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, plus audio books and podcasts - if they are not one of those they need converting.
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Post by canetoad on Oct 18, 2014 2:17:57 GMT
Located the files as Gordon directed and tried to send albums to the sansa clip.The bar runs for the file transfer but the sansa is not getting it, Im thinking the codec is a non starter and I may have to convert to WAV. Feck!!! Ah, so did you let iTunes do all the ripping in the first place? It will deal quite happily with WAV files although I have now converted all of them to Lossless, I did all my friend's files as WAVs but I haven't actually used a PC to copy anything. I had to look up what a Sansa Clip is. Is it MP3 only? Presumably all your music is stored at higher quality than that anyway? This would mean that you would have to convert them all in any case although I have no idea how the Sansa works. I've just looked at iTunes prefs and it will use WAV or MP3 coding so you could just get iTunes to convert them all. I would have to think about how to keep the files somewhere separate so you could send them to the Sansa though. Easy on the Mac, not sure on the PC I'm pretty sure iTunes does AAC not MP3 when importing from a CD. I also know that the Sansa won't play AAC. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2014 5:16:59 GMT
I'm pretty sure iTunes does AAC not MP3 when importing from a CD. I also know that the Sansa won't play AAC. iTunes will encode in the following: AAC AIFF Apple lossless MP3 WAV It's under prefs/input settings. You have the choice of 128/160/192. |
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Post by canetoad on Oct 18, 2014 13:02:29 GMT
OK. I wasn't aware it would encode MP3. Learn something new every day!  |
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Post by MartinT on Oct 19, 2014 20:22:31 GMT
Good practice for anyone is to rip a master library to either WAV or FLAC, keep it separate with a backup and then convert from there. If you have a lossless 'master' library you can do anything you want and you never need to re-rip again. Now THAT is good advice. What do you use for ripping to FLAC, Tim, as sadly EAC doesn't appear to? |
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Post by canetoad on Oct 19, 2014 22:10:12 GMT
It does Martin. You have to install the Flac application and point to the exe file in the EAC setup. flac download |
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