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iTunes Question
OK question for the Apple crew here.
My mate has a lot of CDs, an iPhone and a Microsoft PC.
He wants to add all his CDs to an iTunes music library on his PC, but has some questions I can't answer.
1) If he adds them to his PC based iTunes library how will be evntually move the library to a new iMac (he wants to purchase this some time next year and ditch the PC)?
2) Should he or can he add them in a high quality format to his iTunes library and does iTunes automatically lower the quality when syncing them to an iPhone/iPod etc. ?
3) If he has more material in his iTunes library than will fit on his phone what happens? Can he choose what to sync? Does iTunes realise it is bigger than the device's capacity?
Thanks in advance!
My mate has a lot of CDs, an iPhone and a Microsoft PC.
He wants to add all his CDs to an iTunes music library on his PC, but has some questions I can't answer.
1) If he adds them to his PC based iTunes library how will be evntually move the library to a new iMac (he wants to purchase this some time next year and ditch the PC)?
2) Should he or can he add them in a high quality format to his iTunes library and does iTunes automatically lower the quality when syncing them to an iPhone/iPod etc. ?
3) If he has more material in his iTunes library than will fit on his phone what happens? Can he choose what to sync? Does iTunes realise it is bigger than the device's capacity?
Thanks in advance!
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1) Copy them over and import.
2) You can choose to have lower quality versions on your iPod/phone.
3) iTunes will let you know and allow you to choose.
2) You can choose to have lower quality versions on your iPod/phone.
3) iTunes will let you know and allow you to choose.
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Thanks for your replies.
Copy them from where? Where does iTunes store them in the file system?
Is there not an export option to export them for import to another iTunes library or a backup? The only time I had any experience of trying something like this with iTunes was years and years ago and I seem to remember it lost all the track/album/artist names, but I maybe mistaken!
Copy them from where? Where does iTunes store them in the file system?
Is there not an export option to export them for import to another iTunes library or a backup? The only time I had any experience of trying something like this with iTunes was years and years ago and I seem to remember it lost all the track/album/artist names, but I maybe mistaken!
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Easiest way is to copy your iTunes music directory from the old PC to a USB drive then in iTunes use the Import option directly from the external drive. iTunes will then reconstruct your iTunes music directory on the new machine for you. Couldn't be simpler really.
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Sorry to resurrect this thread again, but my mate is doing my head in. Just because I work with computers I should know everything about iTunes
Anyway can one of you iTunes gurus tell me simply:
a) how to set iTunes to rip CDs in the highest quality
b) how to then set iTunes to lower the quality when copying them to an iPod
Are there settings you can click that leave these as the defaults rather than having to set them every time?
Basically he wants his CD collection on the PC so he can play it back via his hi-fi in CD quality and his iPod to have the same CDs in AAC or whatever the iPod uises for compression.
Thanks in advance.
Oh and if it makes any difference the iTines is on a Windows 7 PC.
Anyway can one of you iTunes gurus tell me simply:
a) how to set iTunes to rip CDs in the highest quality
b) how to then set iTunes to lower the quality when copying them to an iPod
Are there settings you can click that leave these as the defaults rather than having to set them every time?
Basically he wants his CD collection on the PC so he can play it back via his hi-fi in CD quality and his iPod to have the same CDs in AAC or whatever the iPod uises for compression.
Thanks in advance.
Oh and if it makes any difference the iTines is on a Windows 7 PC.
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Depending on hardrive space.
Apple lossless is the best for audio quality assuming everything you intend to play it on supports it (some steaming devices may not). Its very space consuming so bear in mind it needs to be re-encoded to fit it on to the average iPhone. So syncing stuff between devices will need a second copy stored locally (itunes does this for you, but keep in mind it takes even more drive space doing this)
But if space is of a concern and its played on mobile devices or streamed to non-Hifi devices anyway (that includes "lifestyle Hi-Fis" ) Then may as well rip to AAC. I prefer to set it on custom; @ 320kpbs 44.1Khz VBR.
Best thing to do is rip it on both and take a blind listening test. I doubt the average person will be able to tell.
Edit: personally, as a new user I would not reccomend letting iTunes automatically search for media, as it can make a right mess. Best to import stuff on your specific say so IMO, so you know what it has and where its is.
Default PC storage location is usually x:\users\user\music\itunes . You shouldn't need to mess with this unless backing up.
Apple lossless is the best for audio quality assuming everything you intend to play it on supports it (some steaming devices may not). Its very space consuming so bear in mind it needs to be re-encoded to fit it on to the average iPhone. So syncing stuff between devices will need a second copy stored locally (itunes does this for you, but keep in mind it takes even more drive space doing this)
But if space is of a concern and its played on mobile devices or streamed to non-Hifi devices anyway (that includes "lifestyle Hi-Fis" ) Then may as well rip to AAC. I prefer to set it on custom; @ 320kpbs 44.1Khz VBR.
Best thing to do is rip it on both and take a blind listening test. I doubt the average person will be able to tell.
Edit: personally, as a new user I would not reccomend letting iTunes automatically search for media, as it can make a right mess. Best to import stuff on your specific say so IMO, so you know what it has and where its is.
Default PC storage location is usually x:\users\user\music\itunes . You shouldn't need to mess with this unless backing up.
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I encode 320 AAC always enough quality for my tabs.
But that's what I put my iPhone , I store flac on my nas for home use
But that's what I put my iPhone , I store flac on my nas for home use
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That'll be the source you've ripped from or downloaded from.
All my tracks are the same , it's normally the illegal 128kbps rips sound the crappest or YouTube mp3 rips
All my tracks are the same , it's normally the illegal 128kbps rips sound the crappest or YouTube mp3 rips
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Cheers for the help Ant, just seen him and he is now happily importing in Apple lossless and syncing at 192. I did ask why not sync at 256 if you are going to change from the default 128, but he reckons that will be a good trade off between quality and file size on his iPod Anyway he's happy
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Once the music is on the ipod (assuming it can hold it all, mine is 60gb) it becomes a USB drive that will allow you to move the music to a new computer in the future.
The trick is to copy the music off the ipod onto the new computer (mac or pc) before you install Itunes, then import them to the new Itunes when you install it.
The trick is to copy the music off the ipod onto the new computer (mac or pc) before you install Itunes, then import them to the new Itunes when you install it.
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