Got an iMac and 400 cds to "import"

[Mr. Laser Beam]

And who uses MP3 anymore?

Anyone who cares about portability?

Or people with a grudge against Apple so strong that they refuse to use iPods on principle?

 

[propita]

I would say make a copy of everything to an external HD so that when you get a new PC and want to transfer them over (or if your Mac crashes), you don't have to burn them again.

I figure that after I have them on the new iMac, I'll copy them all externally to a backup.

And thanks everyone for the advice. I have so much to learn to really use this system.

 

[Amaris]

And who uses MP3 anymore?

Anyone who cares about portability?

Or people with a grudge against Apple so strong that they refuse to use iPods on principle?

I like the iPod, wouldn't mind having one. Although now I'd probably just buy an all-in-one, and since iPhones are nice but not that great in the phone department, I'd probably buy an HTC.

 

[Rii]

And who uses MP3 anymore?

Anyone who cares about portability?

Or people with a grudge against Apple so strong that they refuse to use iPods on principle?

Given that Apple's devices support MP3 and that AAC has nothing to do with Apple, I'm not sure where you're going with this. And I have nothing against iPods/iPhones; iTunes is a different story.

 

[propita]

This is my favorite site for album art:

Album Art Exchange

How do I get one of these covers into my itunes stuff?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ When you do a Get Info on an entire album, there should be an area set aside to paste the artwork into.

 

[Small White Car]

^ When you do a Get Info on an entire album, there should be an area set aside to paste the artwork into.

You can also just drag an image straight from Safari right onto the 'Artwork' section in iTunes.

Thought I'd point that out since I know some people's first thought is "save image to desktop," "import image into iTunes," & finally "erase image from desktop" which, of course, is a big time waster.

 

[propita]

Well, google images was just as simple. I did the "get info" method; it didn't seem to want to drag into the artwork section. Probably doing something wrong. New to this.

52 albums / 5.16 GB down. A bunch to go.

It's going in aac format automatically. That'd likely end up around 60GB total or so.

Is that a lot? Even if it is, we got 1 TB of memory, so it's not like we're gonna fill up.

 

[Small White Car]

Is that a lot? Even if it is, we got 1 TB of memory, so it's not like we're gonna fill up.

Everyone's different, but it's not unreasonable. I have 45 GB of music in my iTunes. (And 37 GB of video.)