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How to play iTunes 7 tracks gaplessly in Rockbox?

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soap:

--- Quote from: zlp on January 12, 2007, 12:05:46 AM ---
--- Quote ---I think you might find the problem with that is very similar to the "problem" with Rockbox and WMA.
If A is the set of all people who encode with iTunes...and B is the set of all Rockbox coders/developers...and C is the set of all WMA users...I'd wager a fair sum of money that the intersection of A and B is even smaller than the intersection of B and C.

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Agreed, but somebody in category B invested a lot of time into the iTunes DB parsing code, which is only useful to category A.

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If D is the set of people who use iTunes to manage their database, I suspect set A is a very very small subset of D.
The iTunes DB parsing code is useful to the entire set D, not just A.
LAME is, bar none, the best MP3 encoder.  I find it hard to believe many people who value Rockbox would also fail to use the most mature, most tested, highest quality MP3 encoder - be it the one which comes with their choice of music database or not.

GodEater:
*Flameproof suit on*

I use iTunes to look after my music, and always have done - even before I actually owned an iPod.

By "look after" I mean :

I, put my shiny new CD into my PC. I push the "rip" button in iTunes.
iTunes does the following : Goes off to cddb and grabs all the info about the CD. Extracts the audio from the CD. Encodes it to mp3 at the encoding level I've chosen, and writes all the id3 tags for me. It then writes all those files into a nicely organised folder on my PC.

I've still yet to find another application that does the same with the minimum of fiddling.

xlarge:
Since you are writing "PC" i assume you are not a mac fanboy - and your explanation of what iTunes does for you is exactly what MediaMonkey does for me.
(The only issue i've got with MediaMoneky is that it doesn't write ReplayGain tags that Rockbox understands - but iTunes doesn't either from what i've heard...)

GodEater:
Cool - I'll have a look at that as well then - thanks for the tip :)

[Edit]
Ah shame - I knew it was too good to be true. It requires fiddling with to get it to do unlimited mp3 encodes.

AlexP:
EAC and CDex will do all this for you after the inital set up.

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