Multiple iTunes Libraries for AppleTV
PALewin -- Mon, 12/15/2008 - 20:25
I'm trying to set up my iTunes to support an AppleTV per Steve's articles. I would like to keep my current compressed library for iPod use, and to burn CDs for my car. But I would also like to start loading my CDs in lossless form to link with AppleTV as I set up a server for my "real" system. Is there a way to maintain parallel libraries in iTunes, one compressed and one lossless?
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You could set up customized playlists with iTunes and you can have multiple formats of each song. You could also have multiple libraries, but you will need to switch between them via your preferences, which is a pain.
iTunes can also load your iPod with special playlists or random playlists that can be changed each time you tether your iPod to your iTunes.
Sorry I don't have a specific answer for you. I would try looking for answers on Apple's website. They have a fairly complete FAQ as well as some decent tutorials.
Steven Stone
Contributor to The Absolute Sound, EnjoytheMusic.com, Vintage Guitar Magazine, and other fine publications
I never tried use two separate libraries in the same computer, but I separate Apple Lossless (FLAC downloads) from AIFF (my CD's ripped by EAC in Paranoid mode) in two collections in the same library. If someone want some pictures from my library, send me the emails that will be my pleasure share these informations.
You can select iTunes for show bitrates and frequences, and with these informations is easy you select what you want... lossy, uncrompressed and lossless.
I also use the Composer before the name of each track, and in the field composer I use Record Label, so I can access tunes from diferents levels of quality record in iPod and ATV.
I think what I get lossless and free, can be converted to Apple Lossless, but my own CD's are ripped to WAV, and in iTunes are converted to AIFF, only because Steve Jobs don't let me place cover art in wav files, only in AIFF that is the Apple WAV.
Lossless, AAC and mp3 can use album art !!! Who understand and can explain that?
When iTunes convert WAV to AIFF it change only the header of the file, there is NONE compression, and after a lot of carefull listening sessions, AIFF files are more extended in the extremes than ALC, so I think that can be a residual loss, or the codec for AIFF is better than the codec for ALC. Can someone explain why this happen?
I also have everything ripped in WAV outside of my PC in external hard drives, and the 400GB iTunes library (including some converted shows and movies) have two backup's, one in the 1TB Apple TimeCapsule, and a second one in an extra external HD, both updated after each inclusion.
I can't loss what I spent one thousand hours working hard for get !!!
Bob Parish
Brasil