Need Help in having Itunes Tag 1 Tb of lssless Wav


..I just got a mac mini and had over 1 tb of lossless wav files that play thue itunes but i can not get the files organized thru itunes...ie artist song and album all mixed as one on itunes..triedto you us tuneup but that didnt work .. Seems I itunes can not tag these files correctily as media monkey did on my windows computer. Also i converted a few files to apple lossless but they transcribed as mp4 and also the file size was almost in half..any aideas?
zugisland

Showing 2 responses by sufentanil

Ah yes, another person bitten by the WAV bug. Every time I see someone here advise using WAV files "because they sound better" (NOT validated by my own tests, by the way) I cringe. And this is why: WAV files have no standard way for tagging the file with the song title, composer, artist, etc. So they end up as meaningless files scattered across someone's hard drive.

Your best option might be to go back to MediaMonkey and export all the files into a format that is mutual between MediaMonkey and iTunes. I would normally advise to use FLAC but iTunes doesn't make that easy. I'm not sure if iTunes and MediaMonkey have any lossless formats in common except for WAV (iTunes uses ALAC and AIFF, MediaMonkey uses FLAC), so it's possible you may need to use high-quality lossy formats (such as MP3).

Maybe someone else has some advise here?

Bottom line: DON'T USE WAV!

Michael
Wloeb, that's nice you were able to do that, but what about classifying the genres of music in your collection? How did you handle compilations or soundtracks? Also, the year of the disc publication, composer, conductor, etc wouldn't be there.

I just really feel that people should be discouraged from using WAV files. My FLAC files can be queried for music by a particular composer, or I can get all 80's music, or even pieces by a particular violinist. I do this all with my squeezeboxes, and none of this was possible when I was using WAV files around 10 years ago.

Michael