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What I do, and what preserves tag information is to burn them to CD, and then reimport them. You lose ratings and some of the fancier tag stuff, but your CDDB info stays intact.
You also lose more audio quality, since the file has now been encoded twice. You can sometimes get weird audio artifacts, too (clicks and such).
You also lose more audio quality, since the file has now been encoded twice. You can sometimes get weird audio artifacts, too (clicks and such).
I was bringing it up as a replacement for tunebite--reflexively I think you'd end up with at least as good quality, and since I'm a metadata fiend, tagging is really important to how I use my files.
I was bringing it up as a replacement for tunebite--reflexively I think you'd end up with at least as good quality
Ahh, yes, that makes sense.
Music isn't so much an issue for me, except in instances when I just have to cut out the first thirty seconds of a Telepopmusik song cuz it's annoying me to tears, or if I happen to be vidding, and the song I want to use won't load into my editor, burned to a CD or not doing things I really shouldn't be doing with my music.
But I still haven't found a workaround for iTunes video.
Bleargh. Not good week on many fronts. Tech too. I can't run Repair Disk on my Macintosh HD. The underlying task reported failure on exit.
Will fsck do anything for me that Disk Utility can't? How can I tell if this is hardware-related (ie don't buy Leopard and start from scratch)?
Any recommendations on cheap/free software to rip DVDs so I can watch my movies on my pretty new Nano? I'm on a MacBook Pro.
Handbrake.
Will fsck do anything for me that Disk Utility can't?
Wouldn't hurt to try. At least it will give more verbose error messages.
How can I tell if this is hardware-related (ie don't buy Leopard and start from scratch)?
Look in /var/log/messages, (or use the Console.app utility), and see if there have been disk errors that have been logged.
Any recommendations on cheap/free software to rip DVDs so I can watch my movies on my pretty new Nano? I'm on a MacBook Pro.
HandBrake
Wow. Middle of the night x-post.
After Making a mini maglight into a working laser, what do you do for an encore?
Make a Star Trek Phaser prop into a Blu-ray-powered laser, of course.