Fuckin AAC.
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I’ve been playing around with relocating my iTunes library to a network mount recently. It’s gone swimmingly, with one (minor, but very highly vexing) problem:
For some time, I’ve been ripping my own CDs in AAC, because of the minor space/quality benefit over MP3. I’ve been irked in the past with the inability of a number of applications to handle AAC files, but have just gritted my teeth and told myself to give it time.
Since I mostly use iTunes to control my library, I’ve never noticed the following, until now: While iTunes properly encodes the TPOS ID3 tag (Part of Set, i.e. “Disk X of Y”) in MP3s it, apparently, does not do it in AACs, but, instead, choses to track the information in its own library. Which means that, as long as you never divorce an AAC from a multi-disc set that you ripped in iTunes from the one copy of the library that it was created in, you’re fine. But as soon as you do… you lose valuable meta data.
As I result, I have about a dozen albums for which I no longer have proper track order information, without doing something ugly with file-names. For someone who is as anal about his metadata as I am, this is righteously infuriating.
Grrr. I think this will be the final motivator for me to spend a weekend re-ripping everything I have in AAC back into MP3. 192VBR can’t be too much bigger than 128 AAC.
I usually love apple, but god damn, when I hate them I hate them with a passion.
I’ve been playing around with relocating my iTunes library to a network mount recently. It’s gone swimmingly, with one (minor, but very highly vexing) problem:
For some time, I’ve been ripping my own CDs in AAC, because of the minor space/quality benefit over MP3. I’ve been irked in the past with the inability of a number of applications to handle AAC files, but have just gritted my teeth and told myself to give it time.
Since I mostly use iTunes to control my library, I’ve never noticed the following, until now: While iTunes properly encodes the TPOS ID3 tag (Part of Set, i.e. “Disk X of Y”) in MP3s it, apparently, does not do it in AACs, but, instead, choses to track the information in its own library. Which means that, as long as you never divorce an AAC from a multi-disc set that you ripped in iTunes from the one copy of the library that it was created in, you’re fine. But as soon as you do… you lose valuable meta data.
As I result, I have about a dozen albums for which I no longer have proper track order information, without doing something ugly with file-names. For someone who is as anal about his metadata as I am, this is righteously infuriating.
Grrr. I think this will be the final motivator for me to spend a weekend re-ripping everything I have in AAC back into MP3. 192VBR can’t be too much bigger than 128 AAC.
I usually love apple, but god damn, when I hate them I hate them with a passion.