Comments on: What are the best settings to import songs into itunes?

By: Wayne

Wayne — Mon, 21 May 2012 03:58:21 +0000

I think to get that info you may need to burn it as an mp3 not an audio file???

By: Chuck58

Chuck58 — Tue, 15 May 2012 04:04:45 +0000

Looking for some help from any Apple knowledgeable person.
When I burn a music album from an iTunes Playlist to a CD as an audio file for playing in my car CD player I do not get any of the information displayed on the my car’s “enhanced radio” such as track name, album title, artist name. My car radio can display 3 lines of text. Why doesn’t this transfer? Should i be using a different setting when transferring the album tracks? I just get “no information” or “blank” on the car radio display. The music plays just fine but I would like to see the extra information as my radio has the ability to do this. Apparently using “import as audio CD” is not working for me. I am using the latest iTunes version on a MacBook Pro. Thanks for any help.

By: Wayne

Wayne — Wed, 09 May 2012 00:13:13 +0000

Hmmm. Good question. My understanding is that when you copy a ‘data’ CD it makes an EXACT copy, because a data CD has extra built in error correction that an ‘audio’ CD does not have. So I think the i-tunes import with the ‘Use error correction when importing Audio CD’s’ is the same as the first method IF you have an audio CD. BUT if say you are mastering and you want perfect reproduction of an audio file you are better off saving it to a data CD as an aiff, then copying it back to the computer, rather than burning it to an audio CD.

By: bigdogmurphy

bigdogmurphy — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:19:02 +0000

A recording guy told me a better way to bring the music into iTunes was to copy the CD into a folder on the desktop, then import that folder as opposed to importing the CD. Is there any validity to this????

By: Wayne

Wayne — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:31:45 +0000

It’s not ‘wrong’ but a higher setting (mp3 or AAC) will mean better quality music and FLAC even better, that’s all.

By: Ron

Ron — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 18:54:23 +0000

I have been importing cds using the mp3 encoder setting per an apple store instructors directions. Is this wrong, should I use the AAC setting and if so do I need to redo my recordings?

By: Karl

Karl — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 06:46:28 +0000

Anyone???

By: Wayne

Wayne — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 06:04:43 +0000

What is a cars hard drive?

By: Wayne

Wayne — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 06:03:27 +0000

Import into iTunes as lossless (best possible quality) then tick the box on your iTunes iPhone “Summary” settings that says ‘Convert higher nitrate songs to 128kbps AAC’. This will store as best quality on your computer but reduced quality on your iPhone to save space.

By: Karl

Karl — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:08:13 +0000

Thanks for the detailed info, but unless I’m incorrect, is LAME not suppose to or have the ability to encode my CD’s into ACC format into itunes? I have set up LAME exactly as you have stated above, but find that after LAME encodes my CD’s in itunes, the encoded tracks are encoded to MPEG-1 quality mp3, which is the lowest quality one can achieve. The only reason I know the quality has been degraded is by selecting a song in tunes and getting the info from it. (control “i”).
Note: I have the LAME preference setting as ‘insane’.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!