Riley: Oh, yeah. Sorry 'bout last time. Heard I missed out on some fun. Xander: Oh yeah, fun was had. Also frolic, merriment and near-death hijinks.

'Never Leave Me'


Buffistechnology 3: "Press Some Buttons, See What Happens."

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Jon B. - Nov 08, 2007 8:13:18 am PST #3426 of 25497
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

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).


§ ita § - Nov 08, 2007 8:43:32 am PST #3427 of 25497
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

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.


Jon B. - Nov 08, 2007 8:44:52 am PST #3428 of 25497
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

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.


Juliebird - Nov 08, 2007 10:45:33 am PST #3429 of 25497
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

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.


§ ita § - Nov 08, 2007 4:38:20 pm PST #3430 of 25497
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

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)?


lori - Nov 08, 2007 10:14:33 pm PST #3431 of 25497

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.


NoiseDesign - Nov 09, 2007 1:36:41 am PST #3432 of 25497
Our wings are not tired

Handbrake.


Tom Scola - Nov 09, 2007 1:38:58 am PST #3433 of 25497
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

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


NoiseDesign - Nov 09, 2007 1:52:07 am PST #3434 of 25497
Our wings are not tired

Wow. Middle of the night x-post.


DCJensen - Nov 09, 2007 4:17:50 am PST #3435 of 25497
All is well that ends in pizza.

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.