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Ripping FLAC and cheerleading.
This isn't a question - more of a gentle pleading that I think you will appreciate.
I am on OSX for a variety of excellent reasons. I hate itunes. Why? No FLAC. Everyone with even a half an ounce of sense knows that FLAC rules, esp. anyone who appreciates high quality audio. I have (literally) thousands of CDs (2146 to be exact) and they are now 192kbps mp3 files. I hope and pray that soon I will be able to open up Songbird, and pay my (12 year old) daughter to feed it CDs and rip them all to FLAC.
At that point, with my entire collection in FLAC, I can then go USB from my OSX laptop to my DAC, and I can FINALLY listen to my entire collection at will, or better yet: randomised, and have the BEST radio station on the planet - it plays all my favourite songs...
I know you are working on the ability to rip disks, and I know you can handle FLAC. Once that is in order, I am "done".
If there is one tiny tiny request I might beg, make your randomiser REALLY RANDOM, in that it if it comes a song that has been played, it will defer to a song that hasn't been played. ITunes has a habit of finding things that are recently played, and that is sad. I have this huge collection to be surprised - songs I have forgotten or ignored coming into my life, presented by this machine for me.
Keep up the good work - I like Songbird and use it at work, but where it counts (here at home where the ripping and organising happens) it iTunes and iTunes makes the baby Jesus cry. Because it sucks hairy monkey balls.
Keep up the good work my friends. You are fighting the good fight and making the world a better place. In a small way, but a none-the-less vital way.
I am on OSX for a variety of excellent reasons. I hate itunes. Why? No FLAC. Everyone with even a half an ounce of sense knows that FLAC rules, esp. anyone who appreciates high quality audio. I have (literally) thousands of CDs (2146 to be exact) and they are now 192kbps mp3 files. I hope and pray that soon I will be able to open up Songbird, and pay my (12 year old) daughter to feed it CDs and rip them all to FLAC.
At that point, with my entire collection in FLAC, I can then go USB from my OSX laptop to my DAC, and I can FINALLY listen to my entire collection at will, or better yet: randomised, and have the BEST radio station on the planet - it plays all my favourite songs...
I know you are working on the ability to rip disks, and I know you can handle FLAC. Once that is in order, I am "done".
If there is one tiny tiny request I might beg, make your randomiser REALLY RANDOM, in that it if it comes a song that has been played, it will defer to a song that hasn't been played. ITunes has a habit of finding things that are recently played, and that is sad. I have this huge collection to be surprised - songs I have forgotten or ignored coming into my life, presented by this machine for me.
Keep up the good work - I like Songbird and use it at work, but where it counts (here at home where the ripping and organising happens) it iTunes and iTunes makes the baby Jesus cry. Because it sucks hairy monkey balls.
Keep up the good work my friends. You are fighting the good fight and making the world a better place. In a small way, but a none-the-less vital way.
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Inappropriate?The next release of songbird (out in October) will support CD ripping, which from running the Beta which was released yesterday, we discovered will include FLAC as one of the formats they CDs can be imported as.
But I'm unsure if it will be released on OSX and Linux this version, the Road map of CD ripping seems to imply there will be, with adding short cuts in for OSX (http://wiki.songbirdnest.com/Releases...) but the latest blog release seems to imply that at the moment it will only be available for Windows. -
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Inappropriate?But if it were really random, there would always be the minutely small chance that the exact same song would be chosen again =P.
As for the flac ripping, I too am praying for OSX support. In the meantime though, there are some other programs you could use that are excellent for ripping to flac right now.
XLD is the program that what.cd recommends for ripping to flac in osx, and it is also great for encoding things to and from flac. You can check it out here: http://tmkk.hp.infoseek.co.jp/xld/ind...
And Max is another popular ripping program that can do flac as well: http://sbooth.org/Max/
With 2146 CDs though, you might have to worry about child labor laws when employing your daughter for the job :D. It might be worth it to rip to a few different computers to save time and keep your drives from over heating.
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