I had started to burn CDs to Hard Drives a couple of years ago. The main goal has been to prune my Physical Media to save space. Like many forumites I've got thousands of CDs that perhaps have been listened to only a few times and some not for years. I can't bring myself to completely disown Physical Media but I have run out of space and am tired of feeling like my home is a CD warehouse.
The goal therefore is to digitalize (to a hard drive) the infrequently played CDs and discard, while keeping a few hundred favorites and other Physical Media such as SACDs, Blu Rays, DVD-Audios, SHM-CDs, etc along with opening space for lps.
My efforts have been stalled when I noted a problem with itunes namely that when I have tried to find some files, they have gone missing. I first noticed this with the Leonard Bernstein/Chicago SO Shostakovich Leningrad. Every attempt to bring it up failed; whether by Composer, Symphony Number, "Lenningrad", Conductor, or Orchestra. It doesn't help that itunes lists the Composer about 12 different ways. I finally gave up but since I had donated the CD to my local library, and they had it in their collection, I borrowed it and rescanned it into itunes (yes, this is probably illegal) and the same problem occurred. What is interesting is that I know I listened to the files a couple of times after I had originally scanned it, which means that it used to be retreivable; it must have been some additional itunes update that is the problem. I keep hoping that each successive update will fix it but no such luck.
I have had trouble finding other scanned discs as well (Barenboim Schumann Symphonies, Pollini Beethoven Sonatas among others).
Lately I notice that if I scan a new CD, i tunes almost never recognizes the disc or the meta data. I could understand an obscure CD from 20 years ago, but Alissa Weilerstein's recordings of Dvorak and Elgar were amongst them, and those are recent and were fairly decent sellers by Classical standards.
I don't download much, but have discovered at least 1 non itunes downloaded that I had converted from flac and saved in itunes is also gone. Fortunately I still have the flac files.
I will be abandoning itunes in favor of another solution that I have found (more later in a future post) but I was wondering if the many forumites who are more IT sophisticated than myself could explain this.
The goal therefore is to digitalize (to a hard drive) the infrequently played CDs and discard, while keeping a few hundred favorites and other Physical Media such as SACDs, Blu Rays, DVD-Audios, SHM-CDs, etc along with opening space for lps.
My efforts have been stalled when I noted a problem with itunes namely that when I have tried to find some files, they have gone missing. I first noticed this with the Leonard Bernstein/Chicago SO Shostakovich Leningrad. Every attempt to bring it up failed; whether by Composer, Symphony Number, "Lenningrad", Conductor, or Orchestra. It doesn't help that itunes lists the Composer about 12 different ways. I finally gave up but since I had donated the CD to my local library, and they had it in their collection, I borrowed it and rescanned it into itunes (yes, this is probably illegal) and the same problem occurred. What is interesting is that I know I listened to the files a couple of times after I had originally scanned it, which means that it used to be retreivable; it must have been some additional itunes update that is the problem. I keep hoping that each successive update will fix it but no such luck.
I have had trouble finding other scanned discs as well (Barenboim Schumann Symphonies, Pollini Beethoven Sonatas among others).
Lately I notice that if I scan a new CD, i tunes almost never recognizes the disc or the meta data. I could understand an obscure CD from 20 years ago, but Alissa Weilerstein's recordings of Dvorak and Elgar were amongst them, and those are recent and were fairly decent sellers by Classical standards.
I don't download much, but have discovered at least 1 non itunes downloaded that I had converted from flac and saved in itunes is also gone. Fortunately I still have the flac files.
I will be abandoning itunes in favor of another solution that I have found (more later in a future post) but I was wondering if the many forumites who are more IT sophisticated than myself could explain this.
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