Les Mikesell writes: > On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Dean S. Messing <deanm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >> I've never bought anything from the itunes store, but I use it daily, so > >> I can't complain. Itunes will happily rip your own CD collection, (and > >> to mp3's if you like) > > > > But to Flac? That's what I'm ripping to. > > > > I've never had any occasion (or the disk space) to use flac, but a > quick google search says it can be taught to hand them: > http://www.simplehelp.net/2008/06/12/how-to-play-flac-files-in-itunes/ Since we are comparing links, have a look at <http://www.cowonamerica.com/products/cowon/a3/tech_specs.html> and scroll down to "Applications" and you'll see all the formats that the Cowon A3 supports. > >> and add the track names and cover art for you > >> without charging extra. > > > > I suppose, then, that she can get the cover art with iTunes. I've > > spent all my hours ripping (and editing countless mistakes out of the > > ID3 tags that get pulled down from FreeDB). > > >> Hmmm... It's hard to beat an ipod and itunes at what they do. > > > > They can't play Flac, and an iPod does not tocuh a Cowon A3 in > > audio quality (according to both the reviews and her ear.) and > > the wonderful number of format, both video and audio, it can handle. > > I suspect that you are really comparing lossless flac to a highly > compressed mp3 in your listening tests (where a reasonably-sized aac I'm not. I'm an old audio hand (used to work as a researcher in Tektronix Labs doing audio). The audio quality of the Cowon A3 on .wav files exceeds anything I've heard on another PMP. This is what they are _really_ good at. iPods are strictly commodity level players (with a fantastic UI, I'll admit). > would be somewhere in between), but my ears aren't that great and the > places where I use a portable player aren't conducive to detecting > quality anyway so I'm not the best judge. Also, note that the laptop > is a fine player itself. My ears aren't either. But my budding concert pianist daughter's are. But even I can hear the difference in (for example) background noise between the iPod Classic and the Cowon A3 in the many pianissimo (quite) sections Classical pieces. > >> If you get a network connection, you can use rsync -av to copy a whole > >> tree including the symlinks. > > > > This assumes I know how to set up networking on an Mac. > > Macs are at their best when you give them a standard environment and > don't have to set anything up. Ok. I will keep that in mind. I'm bringing a cable to try to hook my laptop to her new Macbook after we pick it up. > > I don't even know how to turn it on and I'll have no time > > to learn. I have 48 hours in Chicago and it's the first day > > of school for Freshman. > > If you know your way around the linux side, set up a DHCP server that > will hand out a single IP address, plug the 2 machines together and > ssh to that address from your laptop. When that works, you can use > rsync to copy anything you want. If you need to be root on the mac, > log in as the first user that was added or one with admin rights, then > 'sudo su -' and type that user's password again. You'll get a very > familiar shell environment with a somewhat different filesystem > layout and a case-insensitive filesystem. Never done dhcp services. Just use 'em. I know my way around several parts of Linux but networking is a weak area (though I still do all my networking by editing config files by hand:-) > Or, if the school has anything resembling a normal network, plug both > machines into their network, run ifconfig in terminal windows to find > your IP addresses, and go from there - but if your laptop has a gig > nic the direct connect will be faster. I'll indeed try this. My laptop does do 1Gig. I suppose the MacBook does to. Does the school's? We'll find out. I'm off to the airport so I'll be silent for a few days. Thanks to all for your many helpful suggestions. I've learned a lot in 48 hours. Dean -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
