[Tfug] CD Ripping

[Bexley Hall]

Hi,

--- On Tue, 8/26/08, Rich <r-lists at studiosprocket.com> wrote:

> iPods still glitch between AAC tracks
 
[snip]
 
> There's a way around this, but currently, the only
> software for it exists on Macs.
> 
> AACs can have "chapter" marks in them. This was
> intended for podcasts, but works well for the kind of music you're
> talking about.  
> Each chapter can have a title, but the 4th gen iPod only displays  
> ticks in its play progress bar. "Next track" becomes "next chapter"  
> in both iTunes and iPod.
> 
> I used to do this manually by exporting the CD tracks as an XML  
> playlist, then rip the entire CD (or set of tracks) as an AAC file.  
> These two would then go to the Apple "ChapterTool", and I'd get a  
> "chapterized" AAC out.

Ah, OK.

> These days I use a tool called "Join Together"
> (http:// 
> dougscripts.com/itunes/itinfo/jointogether.php), which
> takes a bunch of (preferably AIFF) tracks and sends them to
> Quicktime for the  
> conversion to a single chapterized AAC file.
> 
> There are at least two ways of doing it on a Mac. I'm
> sure there must  
> be a way of getting Quicktime Player on Windows to do the
> same.
> 
> So, given that it's just messing with AACs, and AAC is
> an open  
> format, there must be a way of doing this without using
> proprietary  
> software. I haven't found it yet, but I'd love to
> know.
> 
> R.
> 
> 
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