tmesselt

So a few months ago I finally got a NAS drive to take care of my music storage needs. After transferring all of my flac collection to the NAS I also decided I need to pick a new format to use with my mac alac or aiff. I chose aiff and started the conversion process with MAX as recommended. I started to notice though after I converted 1000+ albums that some of the tags were missing on some of the files. Before when I used a PC this was no problem I just fired up mp3tag and took care of the tags in no time. Well to my surprise there is nothing like this for mac that will support aiff. and in itunes the do not have a column were you can sort by path or file location. So I just left them alone for a bit, but as time passed I wanted to those songs to have tags and I didnt want to have to do them 1 by 1. So I figured I would look for some sort of tagging software for osx that would support apple lossless and start to convert my entire aiff collection to aiff. (Wasn't looking to forward to this.) Upon doing this I finally came across this little script on doug's scripts. http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=sundryinfotocomments this script copied the file location of each individual file and it then shows up in your comment field. This was exactly what I was looking for, and something that should just be included in itunes, but wasn't. Maybe this little program can help someone else along the way, I just wanted to share my good luck that I had with it, and the days of converting to apple lossless that I avoided by this handy little script! tmesselt

Eloise, Thank you as well for the tip, I will certainly look into these scripts. This is actually what would work best for me. Tim *edit* I searched for that script for a bit and could not find it. If you run across it again please post the link.

Chris you are a gentlemen and a scholar! Thanks a bunch, I have been lsearching for this for a while. I have been looking for "filetype" not "kind" Much appreciated! Tim

So my entire music library is stored on a 2tb nas drive in the AIFF format. I have endless amount of music at my house, but have a 1/4 full ipod that has not been updated in over a year, so I need to convert some of my library to mp3, I have decided on the V0 format. Now first I tried to use max and did a trial run, but since id3 tags are not stored AIFF files my trial run came up with black results. Although itunes does have the artist/album/trackname info in it. (Not exactly sure of the reasoning behind the lack of id3 support here but thats how it is.) So I know how to convert my aiff files to mp3 in itunes by clicking the "create mp3 version" under the advanced tab. The problem is that if I do several albums I have no idea which one is the aiff or mp3 version. Also I only have macs here right now. Anyone have any ideas or a link that they could post that gives a solution? Tim

So media rage does in fact edit tags for my aiff files! This will be quite a process but I am glad that their is an option. tmesselt

"If I understand right, when you use finder, the files are correctly in... ~user/music/iTunes/iTunes music// but in iTunes itself they have no information as to Artist / Album / Track Name? If it's as I think then I can't see how converting to AiFF will help you. " I actually said convert from aiff to alac, I was thinking this would be a good option because I could use mt3tag to modify the alac, In my position right now I really wanted everything in aiff but would much rather have my tags in alac.

So after endless searching of every id3 tagger I could find, I have not been able to find one. I have also loaded the files into songbird, but I was not able to save the tags . I think I am going to convert the aiff to alac?? This is the only thing I can come up with. Not having tags is kinda tough to figure out what you want to listen to. I'm still up for suggestions, but its looking like no aiff support for id3 taggers.

this would still require me to go in and rename every folder name in finder , I am nearly leaning towards converting my aiff to alac if there is no id3 editing software available.

this would still require me to go in and rename every folder name in finder , I am nearly leaning towards converting my aiff to alac if there is no id3 editing software available.

So during my conversion of my files I switched a setting midway and half of my collection I deleted the tags of my files. Unfortunately I do not have a windows machine anymore so I can not use mp3tag. Is there a equivalent for mac? Right now all of the files are just in itunes with no tags, and if I could sort by path I could at least add artist and album tags. *update* so just got a software called crossover which lets you run a windows program in osx. I successfully installed mp3tag, but no aiff support! So at this point, I would obviously like a native osx program but a windows program that supports aiff tags would be fine too.

Eloise, Thanks for your comment, unfortunatly all of my music is currently in flac not alac. So I can't use iTunes for this.

Has anyone that has done large amount of flies been successful with transferring flac => aiff? I tried to do around 700 albums in max several times and the program shut down every time. I decided to go with about 100 albums at a time, but just looking for feedback, as I have somewhere around 1200 albums to go through, I would like to do this in as few of runs as possible.

So I did a trial run converting the files flac -> aiff while they are on the nas. Using XLD I ran one directory (Just one album), and it seemed to work fine. Then I loaded a directory that had 5 sub directories containing 5 albums, and it is just stuck at the progress meter, with no results. (Its been over 10 minutes that Ive let this sit here now.) tmesselt *UPDATE* So, MAX has no problem loading all of them and processing them, but its going to take days to do this all. Its looking around 1 minutes give or take a few seconds for the tracks I have been seeing so far, is this what I should be expecting? I am thinking I need a gigabit switch? *UPDATE 2* So I realized my airport was still turned on my mac mini and so I was still connected to my router via 802.11g not the ethernet jack (100baset), after fixing this problem I am now down to about 10-15 seconds per track to convert it seems like. This is great, I am stoked to get back to itunes, and finally be able to use the iphone remote app!

Have you tried all of the usb ports and gotten the same results? Also have you tried a optical from the mini to the decco? Another thing you can do to try and determine were the issue is coming from, maybe plug some different sources into the decco and see if you get the same results.

This may be a long shot here, but the only time my mini is loud is when I have a cd in the drive bay.