Comments on: iTunes Alternative Encoders

By: shane

shane — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 13:25:17 +0000

I am having trouble ripping my CDs into the iTunes folder without it using the flat directory instead of structured. What setting am I missing here?

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Sun, 23 Sep 2007 20:31:31 +0000

[…] 61VW wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptYet another minor release of my iTunes script-suite iTunes Alternative Encoders. This one fixes a character encoding issue in the Ogg Vorbis encoder script. I figured this one out while debugging my Quasar Media Player with files … […]

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New Release: iTunes Alternative Encoders 1.5 at Katastrophos.net Blog — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 17:58:38 +0000

[…] Yet another minor release of my iTunes script-suite iTunes Alternative Encoders. This one fixes a character encoding issue in the Ogg Vorbis encoder script. I figured this one out while debugging my Quasar Media Player with files containing Umlauts and other non-latin characters. Ogg Vorbis files produced with the previous version of the script contained “#” in the tags instead of the correct characters. Get the fixed version while it’s hot: Download here. […]

By: Andre

Andre — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 01:25:25 +0000

Okay, I had a chance to work a bit on the scripts today.
I had this idea for a long time, namely taking advantage of more than one CPU in a system. I’ve been manually splitting up the list of files to encode before, and started the encoding for each chunk. However, this wasn’t quite convenient.
So here it is: A new release with (optional) built-in support for it. No more hassles. Actually it didn’t take long to implement it. ;)
Hope you like it.

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New Release: iTunes Alternative Encoders 1.4 at Katastrophos.net Blog — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 01:06:29 +0000

[…] I’ve updated the iTunes Alternative Encoders pack. The new version introduces a feature to split up the encoding process into simultaneously running parts, which essentially is a form of multithreading. This means you can now make perfect use of that multi-core/multi-CPU beast on or under your desk when encoding large amounts of files. ;) Download here. […]

By: Andre

Andre — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 18:23:15 +0000

Hey Pete, sorry for the late reply!
Yes, there is a way to automate it:
Use the AppleScript Editor to set the property useTunesTags to true in the LAME script.
This will cause the encoded files to be added to your iTunes library. If you’ve set iTunes to manage your music library, it will automatically copy the encoded files from your destination directory right into the managed “iTunes Music” folder. In this case, make sure to clear the destination directory after encoding or you’ll end up having duplicates.
Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Andre

By: pete

pete — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 16:42:48 +0000

hi again andre,

finally got round to looking at the options i can change to simplify the encoding process and managed to change the default preset (eliminating a lot of copy/paste action). however i’m not entirely sure how to alter the default destination. what i do at present is (using the set destination option) create a new folder in itunes music for each disk i rip, then add the contents to the library after encoding. Thus itunes sorts out the album/track info and hierarchy. Is there a simple way to automate this process?

Cheers,

Pete.

By: eric

eric — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 02:58:57 +0000

Wow!!

I’ve been looking for an easy way to encode Ogg’s on my mac for many months now and just happened to stumble into this. I’d been using Oggdrop but it seems very out of date (not using the latest and finely tuned versions of the code).

Thank you, Thank you…….

This really should be linked on the Xiph site…..

Eric

By: Xavier

Xavier — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 00:29:47 +0000

hi again andre,

thanks a lot for the quick answer, that’s what I call “involvment” ;-) I just downloaded the file, i’ll try it out later on few of my new CDs.

I really hope your script will be found by other mac os x users,

Have a nice day,

Xavier

By: Andre

Andre — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 00:13:48 +0000

Hi Xavier, sorry for the server problem, wrong permissions on the file and I didn’t check the download afterwards. So, it’s fixed now. Stupid me!
You can of course just copy the “oggenc” binary from “Utilities” folder in the ZIP file to the “Utilities” folder in ~/Library/iTunes/Scripts/Utilities.
- Andre