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On 12/28/18 9:19 AM, Fred Maxwell [email protected] [EAC] wrote:
> Bashing the personal music players owned by other members of the
> group is unacceptable
You're right and I apologize.
My excuse: I just spent a couple months organizing a collection for a
friend who had a large FLAC library, an iPod and little time. I
dedicated a ton of effort to creating a very slick (if I say so myself)
scripted process to convert the FLACs to AAC with all tags (which was a
nightmare in itself since iTunes/iPod only recognizes one of each tag in
a file) and embed all artwork. The encoding was done by what's said to
be the reference encoder. Yes, there are out of the box solutions out
there, but for one reason or another they didn't quite work with this setup..
The AAC files played everywhere: Multiple computer platforms,
Squeezebox, car, Android phone, FiiO x3, iTunes itself. Everywhere, that
is, except on the iPod, where every single track simply came up, showed
the title and cover art, then moved on to do exactly the same thing with
the next track. For. Every. Single. Track.
But hey, iTunes alleges the ability to work with Apple Lossless and
downconvert to AAC on the fly, so that seemed like a good Plan B that
even had some benefits. Except that iTunes simply refused to downconvert
about half the ALACs, only giving a generic message about being unable
to. As it turns out, this is apparently a problem that's existed for
years and if Apple has ever addressed it, I wasn't able to find their
response.
I did eventually find a convoluted, dual-OS process that worked. But
obviously the taste it left in my mouth was not a pleasant one. Doesn't
mean I shouldn't have left said mouth closed in this forum, though.