iPod music teacher considering digitizing my music collection. advice please

[Italianblend]

Thanks guys. I have another question:

I have spent the past few weeks importing all of my CDs into iTunes on my work computer. I have not yet created an account for this. Do I need an apple account if I don't plan on purchasing anything? Or can I just plug in a new iPod and sync this music without an account?

And if I do ever get an account, it will be able to use all the music I've imported, right?

Thanks for all the help. When I figure out my budget I'm going to grab an iPod touch and that wireless transmitter!

 

[Thetonyk123]

nooo, storage space is dirt cheap nowadays so there is no reason to not rip to lossless, you get an exact copy of the CD perfect if you loose or damage a CD, you never know in 5 years time there might be some crazy technological breakthrough where you get the sound quality of £10,000 speakers in every £50 pair.

rip to lossless so you never have to rip them again, as I say storage is cheap (1TB HDD for £50), I've ripped ~140 of my CDs so far to ALAC and it has taken up just under 50GB, so 300CD's should be ~100GB not even near the iPod classic storage limit.

rip once to lossless so you never have to rip again no reason not to.

HDD are pretty expensive right now because of the flood in Thailand

 

[androiphone]

Thanks guys. I have another question:

I have spent the past few weeks importing all of my CDs into iTunes on my work computer. I have not yet created an account for this. Do I need an apple account if I don't plan on purchasing anything? Or can I just plug in a new iPod and sync this music without an account?

And if I do ever get an account, it will be able to use all the music I've imported, right?

Thanks for all the help. When I figure out my budget I'm going to grab an iPod touch and that wireless transmitter!

you may need to create an appleID for an ipod touch (I'm not sure) but even if you do it won't affect any operation of the ipod, you don't even have to sign up with a credit card,
not sure what you mean with: "And if I do ever get an account, it will be able to use all the music I've imported, right?" having an appleID will have no bearing on any music you have imported to itunes and it's use on any ipod.

HDD are pretty expensive right now because of the flood in Thailand

I did write that before the tragic flooding in Thailand cause HDDs to increase in price mind.

 

[Qemre]

buy an Olive O3HD. That is just what u need. You simply insert your cd and olive downloads track infos and also the artworks.. google it and see

 

[Consultant]

buy an Olive O3HD. That is just what u need. You simply insert your cd and olive downloads track infos and also the artworks.. google it and see

So you are saying a music teacher should buy a $999 device that is not portable just to rip cds?

 

[Qemre]

So you are saying a music teacher should buy a $999 device that is not portable just to rip cds?

i want to buy that device but i dont need it for the first time it felt like somebody can use that device didnt know it was that expensive however he is saying he spent weeks to import, if we calculate the income vs time buying olive may be more sensible than spending so much time to import ( i dont know if i am clear enough..)

 

[Tarzanman]

I don't think he should use iTunes at all.

Why limit access to your music library with a proprietary program that only talks to Apple stuff?

Rip all of your CD music to FLAC for your archive and mp3 for your mobile devices.

Airplay and network sharing is nice to have... but this is the 21st century... you should be able to fit your entire music library in mp3 on a single device or flash stick/card.

 

[ftaok]

I don't think he should use iTunes at all.

Why limit access to your music library with a proprietary program that only talks to Apple stuff?

Rip all of your CD music to FLAC for your archive and mp3 for your mobile devices.

Airplay and network sharing is nice to have... but this is the 21st century... you should be able to fit your entire music library in mp3 on a single device or flash stick/card.

What exactly is proprietary about iTunes/AAC? Pretty much all modern devices can play AAC without any issues. Sure, if you have an older car head unit that can only play mp3/WMA, it could be an issue.

Using iTunes to rip CDs does not lock you into anything. You still have access to all of your music files via Finder/Explorer if you choose an MP3 player that supports Drag-n-Drop. You could also opt to manually manage your library if you don't like the way iTunes sorts the files.

I do agree that ALAC does pose some problems if you want to dump iTunes in the future, but with HDD space so cheap, you could archive the CDs as AIFF files if you feel that you may want to switch from MP3/AAC to whatever the next flavor is in the future.

 

[Tarzanman]

So, the summation of your counter argument is that there are certain non-apple hardware and software solutions for playing Apple content.


...which goes to the entire point I was making: Avoid having to look for special software or work-arounds by using device-agnostic/common formats.

There's no reason to chain yourself down. Apple hardware might very well suck 10 years from now, which is why I think FLAC and mp3 are a wiser choice.

 

[gnasher729]

So, the summation of your counter argument is that there are certain non-apple hardware and software solutions for playing Apple content.


...which goes to the entire point I was making: Avoid having to look for special software or work-arounds by using device-agnostic/common formats.

There's no reason to chain yourself down. Apple hardware might very well suck 10 years from now, which is why I think FLAC and mp3 are a wiser choice.

AAC is an absolute standard. It is what is used in all DVDs. It wasn't widely used in the old times when Microsoft pushed its "Playforsure" and all the player manufacturers tried not to upset Microsoft, but since Microsoft shafted them all, everything plays AAC. Look at any cheap Android phone, it plays AAC. A hint for you: Neither of the A's stands for "Apple". AAC means Advanced Audio Codec.

mp3 is completely outdated. It was outdated ten years ago. And with FLAC, it is really hard to find a player. For lossless encoding, Apple's ALAC is now open source.

 

[GeniusJon]

It's for a school environment, Lossless audio is really not necessarily and needed. Unless all the kids wore $600 + headphones, they wouldn't be able to tell the difference.