[geeks] favorite mp3 splitter/joiner/editor?

[Nadine Miller]

On Feb 25, 2009, at 12:51 AM, sammy ominsky wrote:

> On 25/02/2009, at 07:11, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
>
>
>> There are plenty of editing suites, Audacity works fine. It's a  
>> Linux program,
>> but there is a decent port to Windows. There may also be a BSD  
>> (Xwindows under
>> MacOS) or a direct MacOS port too.
>
> There is.
>
>> AFAIK iTunes does not tag a file. It creates seperate XML tags in a  
>> file
>> of tags for your entire database. Works great with 100 MP3's, sucks  
>> when you
>> have 30k.
>
> iTunes definitely does tag the files, and inserts all sorts of other  
> information into the file itself.  iTunes is the bane of music  
> torrent sites.  If you play the files you're seeding, they no longer  
> match the hash created with the torrent.
>
> The xml file is your library data.
>
> What problems have you experience with iTunes and 30k songs?  There  
> are 36,051 songs in my library, and I have no complaints whatsoever  
> about the way iTunes handles things.  I did have to get really anal  
> about tagging my files because iTunes is built for case-insensitive  
> filesystems and my library lives on a zfs RAID-Z.  Once I fixed all  
> that, though, it's smooth sailing.

Assuming you have a fast Mac and fast I/O.  If you don't have either  
of those, the updates to the XML file that happen anytime you make a  
change to your library, get really, really annoying.  The easy fix:  
make the XML file read only. :-)

(It's just a backup of the data stored in the SQLite DB, anyway.)

=Nadine=