Script for I-Tunes 6 Windows
Reply #7 – 2005-10-27 19:06:51
EAC is simple, clean, easy, fast, straight, burns, sync with the I-Pod etc. I love it ! The big true is that it is a tremendous success and buzz all over the word and it is being mentioned in all professional audio Forums, certainly because of its excellent AAC and lossless encoders too. True ... but EAC cannot sync with an iPod (sorry, I had to go for that one)The second reason that took me to go to I-Tunes is that Freedb used in EAC is not so good as Gracenote used in I-Tunes, where the information about the track is much more complete, where the artist and track names are written correctly Example: Freedb shows Michael Buble ( written wrongly), and Gracenote shows Michael Bublé, (the right way). FreeDB always has multiple entries with a correct one being very probable ... but I agree that FreeDB entries are often submitted by morons.Now the most important thing is that Gracenote shows the composer tag. As a Jazz musician this killed EAC for me. The composer tag is of extreme importance for me. Especially in Jazz ... you are absolutely right. I got used to enter composer tags with a right-click tag editor like AudioShell ... just because i don't want to use burst mode ripping with iTunes without proper error detection and secure reading (besides primitive sector synch, that is) - which is my personal killer criterion against iTunes as a ripper. Additionally, I don't like the way iTunes handles artwork ... it always has to be embedded into the tag which bloats the files if you want to use higher-resolution (e.g. 600x600) ... folder.jpg simply doesn't work (although it would be easy to implement - but I guess this is part of the Microsoft-Apple war).