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03-07-2009, 01:16 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Germany
Posts: 1,216
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I'm using VLC player for playing single music files with different formats. iTunes is only for my music library which only uses MP3.
iTunes is only fun if you're using correct ID3 tags and covers, but after doing this a few times this will become routine. Download a cover from Amazon or elsewhere, prepare it with Preview and add it in iTunes. After a while it becomes real fun, especially if you have to create covers for own compilations and so on. It's great if you have the cover in the Dock and the title in the menu bar. But it's good to manage the files manually, so you can use them also from a stack. Look at the screenshots from my iTunes library, the shown covers are all made by myself (only with Preview!) and have a size of 200x200 pixels @ 20 kb size.
What audio formats are you using? flac? There are iTunes plugins for these, and it's possible to recode them to AAC with an external converter, this format is lossless too. I'm using MP3 @ 192 kbit, this is good enough.
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My Audio stuff: M-Audio Transit USB (default audio), M-Audio ProFire 610, M-Audio ProFire Lightbridge (34 channels) using Creamware A16 ADAT converter • MIDI: M-Audio Midiman 4x MIDI interface • Behringer Audio Mixers: Xenyx 1002, Xenyx 1002FX, Xenyx 1202FX, Eurorack UB1002FX, Eurorack MX1804FX, Eurorack MX262A • FX devices: Lexicon MPX100 DSP, Behringer DSP-1000 Virtualizer, Behringer MiniFEX 800 DSP, Behringer Multicom Pro MDX4400 compressor • RETRO: MSSIAH midi/sequencer/synthesizer cardridge for the C64 (Dual-SID), Steinberg M.S.I. MIDI Interface for C64
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