[SlimDevices: 3rd-party-hardware] Re: Thoughts on ipods and aac

[Brian Ritchie]

dSw;152886 Wrote: 
> Thanks for posting your experience Brian - some really useful
> information in there. A question on Anapod, though - do you find that
> it handles the conversion of tags ok?

Sort-of.  I seemed to end up with some curious truncations, as if there
was some limit on tag length at some stage during the transcoding
process. I've never quite been able to pin it down.

I've not been using Anapod's transcoding feature much for a while. The
main reason is that I realised that you're supposed to be able to
configure Anapod so that if it finds a "cover.jpg" file in the same
folder as the files, it will add it as artwork on the iPod; but this
*doesn't* work when transcoding is involved.  So all new rips get
converted (MediaMonkey, flac-to-mp3) into an "iPod Food" hierarchy, I
add cover.jpg, then drop it into Anapod.

Since the iPod spends most of its playing life in the glove compartment
or in my pocket, and since its illumination is set to go out after about
5ms, adding the artwork is a bit pointless really; but since it *can*
display it... !

-- Brian


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