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iTunes 3
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peterjhill
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I like the consolidate library, which copied all my previous songs that i did not import directly with itunes to my music folder, also the new option that whenever you copy something to the library in itunes, it moves the files to the music folder. There were some other new prefs that i liked, but can not remember right now.
I am sad about the lack of aac support in itunes. That might leave something open for a third party developer for an itune plug in. I would guesss that itunes could play aac. Let me try.
I am sad about the lack of aac support in itunes. That might leave something open for a third party developer for an itune plug in. I would guesss that itunes could play aac. Let me try.
DivX playback works fine, infact smoother than QT5 as far as picture quality.
I agree, opening a DivX encoded Avi file does cause QT6 player to freeze or it simply won't play it. If you use DivX Doctor II on every divX format Avi file and only open the doctored .mov file in QT6 it works fine. I know if you have a large collection of old TV shows and cartoons like I do that turning them all into doctored movie files could sound like a chore. You just drag the lot onto the DivX doctor window or on the application icon and it creates doctored movie files of the all, saving them in the same folder as the original avi files are. Plus because they're not saved as self contained movie files you just end up with the original Avi and a small Movie file pointing to it.
Download divX doctor II version 2.1 here it works in OS X and 8.6 and above. There's links to all the latest codecs and quicktime plug-ins on the same page. It should solve all you're problems with DivX and QT6.
I agree, opening a DivX encoded Avi file does cause QT6 player to freeze or it simply won't play it. If you use DivX Doctor II on every divX format Avi file and only open the doctored .mov file in QT6 it works fine. I know if you have a large collection of old TV shows and cartoons like I do that turning them all into doctored movie files could sound like a chore. You just drag the lot onto the DivX doctor window or on the application icon and it creates doctored movie files of the all, saving them in the same folder as the original avi files are. Plus because they're not saved as self contained movie files you just end up with the original Avi and a small Movie file pointing to it.
Download divX doctor II version 2.1 here it works in OS X and 8.6 and above. There's links to all the latest codecs and quicktime plug-ins on the same page. It should solve all you're problems with DivX and QT6.
Has anybody had a chance to download it yet???? Sitting at work sucks ....especially during a Macworld expo.......is it 5:30 yet?
alex_ant
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I like the new Show Browser feature of iTunes 3 (that wasn't there before, was it?), but I really wish it had AAC support, and by that I mean good AltiVec-accelerated encoding and playback of AAC files. Even AltiVec-accelerated MP3 playback would be nice; 15% CPU usage on a 550MHz chip with an onboard vector unit is insane. Let's get that CPU usage down, Apple! And let's get AAC support in there! Maybe they're saving it for the big iTunes 3.0.1 release. 🙂
okay on playing around with AAC format (qucktime put .mp4 on the end) I am a little dissappointed with performance. It stutters when doing anything in iTunes
Also a bug:
The visualizer does not work with any AAC files i have tried, and neither does the little visualiser in the title BAR, it jsut shows a blank.
GEt it sorted apple
Also a bug:
The visualizer does not work with any AAC files i have tried, and neither does the little visualiser in the title BAR, it jsut shows a blank.
GEt it sorted apple
peterjhill
macrumors 65816
It works great for me. It would not import into iTunes without the .mp4 extension. Now I need to find an app to automate the ripping and cddb stuff and I will start going through my collection.
Track Order
barkmonster
I have never had a problem with the track order being messed up and i have imported over 3 gigs of songs.
You have to name the Artist/Album/Track Names and then drag them to the playlist folder you want eather by eather hylighting all the files and drag them or just draging the icon of the CD..
If you dont like itunes becuase its free even thow it is the best out there i suppose you could allways use like realjukebox or something
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-Pat
barkmonster
I have never had a problem with the track order being messed up and i have imported over 3 gigs of songs.
You have to name the Artist/Album/Track Names and then drag them to the playlist folder you want eather by eather hylighting all the files and drag them or just draging the icon of the CD..
If you dont like itunes becuase its free even thow it is the best out there i suppose you could allways use like realjukebox or something
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-Pat
iTunes 3 lost my playlists
Did anyone else have this problem?:
Installed iTunes3 and only had about 15 playlists out of about 30, not all of my songs were in my library (had to reconnect them to the files on my HD) and many songs were duplicated in my library.
This "upgrade" is causing me a headache. At least this time it didn't delete MP3s from my HD, but re-creating playlists is a pain in my butt.
I need to find some non-Apple application that will allow me to import the playlists from my iPod so I won't have to re-create all of my playlists.
Did anyone else have this problem?:
Installed iTunes3 and only had about 15 playlists out of about 30, not all of my songs were in my library (had to reconnect them to the files on my HD) and many songs were duplicated in my library.
This "upgrade" is causing me a headache. At least this time it didn't delete MP3s from my HD, but re-creating playlists is a pain in my butt.
I need to find some non-Apple application that will allow me to import the playlists from my iPod so I won't have to re-create all of my playlists.
madamimadam
macrumors 65816
Re: I hope it's got a lot of the bad/lack of features sorted out this time !
Except Soundjam had a cool karaoke function.
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Except Soundjam had a cool karaoke function.
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iTunes Frames Per Second Improvement
I am getting 40 fps full screen visualizations on my Ti 800 with iTunes 3 whereas I was only getting 22 fps with iTunes 2. It must be utilizing the graphics card to achieve almost 100% improvement over the prior version. Any thoughts?
(Enter full screen visualization and hit the "F" key.)
I am getting 40 fps full screen visualizations on my Ti 800 with iTunes 3 whereas I was only getting 22 fps with iTunes 2. It must be utilizing the graphics card to achieve almost 100% improvement over the prior version. Any thoughts?
(Enter full screen visualization and hit the "F" key.)
peterjhill
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Re: Question
I think I have covered this like 3 times in the past week.
MP3 is lossful compression. Data is lost during the compression. It will never come back. This compares to JPEG vs uncompressed TIFF. Sure you could convert from MP3 to AAC, but the sound quality will DECREASE!!! It is like taking a compressed picture, and recompressing it. A great comparision is GIF to JPEG.
GIF came first, it was pretty good at getting small pictures, as MP3 compares to AIFF (uncompressed sound).
JPEG's came next. The picture quality was great. JPEG supports a far deeper color depth. The algorithms are better, the pictures can be smaller.
If you take a GIF and convert it to JPEG, you will end up with crap!
Unfortunately it is a pain in the ass to use qt pro player to convert a CD to AAC. Plus if you want to play it on an mp3 player, guess what, you will need to convert it. Plus, if you look at the iPod tech specs, AAC is not listed as a supported audio format. It says that future software upgrades could add new formats, but nothing written in stone about support for AAC. I am reluctant to spend 450 bucks for a 20GB iPod if a future model will support hardware decode for AAC, and the current iPod would not support it. hardware decode would presumably use less power than using a general processor to do the decode in software.
I think I have covered this like 3 times in the past week.
MP3 is lossful compression. Data is lost during the compression. It will never come back. This compares to JPEG vs uncompressed TIFF. Sure you could convert from MP3 to AAC, but the sound quality will DECREASE!!! It is like taking a compressed picture, and recompressing it. A great comparision is GIF to JPEG.
GIF came first, it was pretty good at getting small pictures, as MP3 compares to AIFF (uncompressed sound).
JPEG's came next. The picture quality was great. JPEG supports a far deeper color depth. The algorithms are better, the pictures can be smaller.
If you take a GIF and convert it to JPEG, you will end up with crap!
Unfortunately it is a pain in the ass to use qt pro player to convert a CD to AAC. Plus if you want to play it on an mp3 player, guess what, you will need to convert it. Plus, if you look at the iPod tech specs, AAC is not listed as a supported audio format. It says that future software upgrades could add new formats, but nothing written in stone about support for AAC. I am reluctant to spend 450 bucks for a 20GB iPod if a future model will support hardware decode for AAC, and the current iPod would not support it. hardware decode would presumably use less power than using a general processor to do the decode in software.
ipod and AAC
so will ipod be upgradable to suppod AAC...and if so when?
is it worth waiting to buy an ipod until it supports AAC in hardware, or will software decode work fine?
so will ipod be upgradable to suppod AAC...and if so when?
is it worth waiting to buy an ipod until it supports AAC in hardware, or will software decode work fine?
ShaolinMiddleFinger
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Re: iTunes Frames Per Second Improvement
yeah....The minute I turned on the visuals there was a big difference. I'm now getting 20frames/sec on my iBook 500
yeah....The minute I turned on the visuals there was a big difference. I'm now getting 20frames/sec on my iBook 500
Over Achiever
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Um....right.
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This thread is brought back from the dead after almost four months and the post that brought it back makes no sense! Too bad this thread will stay on top for other misinformed newbies to post on...
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Ok, unless ya'll have anything pertinent to post on this thread, make sure you read the date of the post...we don't want any misguided posts now do we?😉
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This thread is brought back from the dead after almost four months and the post that brought it back makes no sense! Too bad this thread will stay on top for other misinformed newbies to post on...
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Ok, unless ya'll have anything pertinent to post on this thread, make sure you read the date of the post...we don't want any misguided posts now do we?😉
I don't quite get it, when people make statements like this. It is way to general. Doesn't it kind of depend on what the individual persons reasoning for the conversion is. Let's assume that their main goal is to save disk space, and they do not really care about losing a negligible amount of quality, (possibly so little that it's virtually undetectable by the human ear. I personally don't really care what a computer annalysis says. If I can't hear the quality difference with my own ears, for all practical purposes, their is no difference
madamimadam
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Plus, converting from MP3 to AAC is COMPLETELY different from conveting from GIF to JPEG. It is like saying that converting a 128Kb MP3 to a 128Kb MP3 will lose quality... it will not... you have 128Kb to start with and 128Kb when you are finished. Going to AAC, though, is different in the sense that you use a lower encode rate to = the same quality as the MP3.
Um... not to rain on your parade, but re-encoding an MP3, a second time, even to the same bit rate WILL loose quality. Yes you will have the same 128Kb of information, but less of that information will correspond to the original sound you are compressing.
Though if you are encoding MP3s to 128 you probably won't care about the small amount of loss when going direct MP3 to AAC. It does become an issue to those audiophiles who currently use 192 or even 320.
Bottom line: If the loss doesn't bother you, great, but don't pretend it doesn't exist.
Here here!
I don't listen to much Pink Floyd, but I am one of those "raver kids" that has a sweet DJ setup. The visuals in iTunes are some of the most amazing I've seen. I would love to just hook up an LCD projector to my Mac, feed my mix into iTunes, and have the visuals sync up... Boom! Instant party!
I don't listen to much Pink Floyd, but I am one of those "raver kids" that has a sweet DJ setup. The visuals in iTunes are some of the most amazing I've seen. I would love to just hook up an LCD projector to my Mac, feed my mix into iTunes, and have the visuals sync up... Boom! Instant party!
Rendezvous Playlists?
Remember this (promised) feature? Where you could publish a playlist over rendezvous and others on the local network could listen to your library... I'd love to get it before I go home to visit folks for the holidays. Has it popped up anywhere?
Remember this (promised) feature? Where you could publish a playlist over rendezvous and others on the local network could listen to your library... I'd love to get it before I go home to visit folks for the holidays. Has it popped up anywhere?