iTunes Problem

Really you should have thought it through a bit more the HDX never made any claims to be an itunes ripper.

Basically the files if they are anything will be wav but no tagging is applied to wav so itunes will most likely just see a bunch of untitled files.

Good luck with that.

Start ripping them again on the iMac, straight into iTunes.

I know this feels painful, but no joy awaits you trying to re-tag your 1200 HDX rips.

Oh bugger. Thanks for the replies

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Originally posted by Richard Adams:
Oh bugger. Thanks for the replies

Richard

Does the HDX create cue-sheets with album information?

If so, then a utility called CUE-tools might be able to help you.


EDIT:
I think this might be solved depending on how the actual audio files are stored.

If the files are stored with the trackname as filename and the artist and album are higher levels of folders or are also written in the filename of the audio file.

If this information is sufficient for you then you can use dBPoweramp Batch converter to convert the files to iTunes capable files and in the converter you turn on the [tag-from-filename] add-in. There you specify how it should interpret the filename / folder structure to extract tags from and it will add them at the sametime as converting the files.

If you want to have more tags but the trackname, album and artist are available in filename and folder structure, then you could also use a tool called "Recursive Cue Creator" and have this scan the music store and create cue sheets.

With these cue sheets and the tool CUE-Tools you can then convert the audio files based on the cue sheets and have the tool look at several on-line music databases to find the tags. It will then add the tags during conversion.

So depending on how all is stored and how 'inventive' you are with these kind of tools, I think it should be possible to do without re-ripping 1200 CD's.


Another possibility, if at all possible, is when the HDX or desktopclient is capable of exporting the album, artist and song information to ordinary text files with a song per line and artist and album information added to that. With the tool MP3Tag you can then, after conversion, add tags to the converted files from the text files.

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aleg

Hi Aleg

Thanks for that. I've had a look but can't find a version of dbpoweramp that works for osx

Any ideas where I can find one?

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Originally posted by Richard Adams:
Hi Aleg

Thanks for that. I've had a look but can't find a version of dbpoweramp that works for osx

Any ideas where I can find one?

I'm afraid there isn't. It has been developed for Windows only.
There are some some advantages with running Windows .

My guess is that this problem also occurs with the other tools I mentioned.

I'm not a Mac user (as you can tell), but I found some people were able to run dBPoweramp on their Mac using this:

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I've had success with Boot Camp, Fusion, and Parallels. All three work with both the Mac's internal drive (Matshita UJ-85J) and an external drive (Plextor PlexWriter Premium) connected via IDE to USB adapter. Once in a while I will have a problem getting the external drive to rip on the first go around ... but disconnecting and then reconnecting the drive and then restarting the software takes care of the problem. The internal drive works perfectly every time.

Is this something you are comfortable with?

Otherwise I don't think I can help you any further.

Success

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aleg

Richard

You could have a go with this program Max from sbooth found here )

It says it can convert files and is integrated with MusicBrainz. I don't know if it can get tags from MusicBrainz for files or just for CD's.

But it has been developed specificaly for Mac, so maybe it can get you moving in the right direction.

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aleg