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DancingSponge · Dec 5, 2005, 08:40 AM

How can I rip mp3's from a CD? Will iTunes do it.

Also, using GarageBand, can I export a project to mp3?
Thanks

f1000 · Dec 5, 2005, 08:45 AM

Originally Posted by DancingSponge

How can I rip mp3's from a CD? Will iTunes do it.

Yes.

Jacke · Dec 5, 2005, 09:25 AM

Originally Posted by DancingSponge

Also, using GarageBand, can I export a project to mp3?
Thanks

And yes.

DancingSponge · Dec 5, 2005, 09:40 AM

Originally Posted by f1000

Yes.

Care to share with me the secret on how to do it? I can only seem to find an option to rip them to iTunes format, and not to a separate mp3 file for use on Windows machines.

f1000 · Dec 5, 2005, 09:45 AM

Originally Posted by DancingSponge

Care to share with me the secret on how to do it? I can only seem to find an option to rip them to iTunes format, and not to a separate mp3 file for use on Windows machines.

Preferences -> Advanced -> Importing -> Import Using: MP3 Encoder

You can also install iTunes for Windows on your PC and then you can use any iTunes compatible format you want.

Thinine · Dec 5, 2005, 09:48 AM

AAC is not an Apple format, it's standard MPEG-4 audio.

DancingSponge · Dec 5, 2005, 10:08 AM

Aaah finally .. got it! Thanks guys.. I've been like this.

Now, when they rip out to mp3 how do I get it to use the full name/album/track no/song name when it creates the file name.

I never figured that moving from PC to Mac would have been so ... different.

With GarageBand, do I have to export that to iTunes, then go from iTunes to mp3, or is there a more direct route?

f1000 · Dec 5, 2005, 10:16 AM

Originally Posted by DancingSponge

Now, when they rip out to mp3 how do I get it to use the full name/album/track no/song name when it creates the file name.

iTunes will name your tracks automatically if you import from CD while connected to the Internet. If you import first and then get access to the Internet, select your unnamed imported tracks and choose "Get CD Track Names" from the "Advanced" menu.

DancingSponge · Dec 5, 2005, 10:21 AM

iTunes got all the names of the tracks when I put the CD in, however, when I ripped it out to mp3 it created a folder with the artist name, then a sub folder with the album, (which is perfect) but then the mp3 was named track # - song name.mp3

I specifically like the track to be named artist - album - track # - song name.mp3 though.

TETENAL · Dec 5, 2005, 10:23 AM

Originally Posted by DancingSponge

I specifically like the track to be named artist - album - track # - song name.mp3 though.

As an iTunes user you don't care about the filename. You access all your music exclusively through iTunes and never through the Finder, so it doesn't matter which name the file has.

Jacke · Dec 5, 2005, 11:41 AM

Originally Posted by DancingSponge

With GarageBand, do I have to export that to iTunes, then go from iTunes to mp3, or is there a more direct route?

You just select export to iTunes and it uses whatever encoding options you have set to directly encode it and add it to your iTunes library.

DancingSponge · Dec 5, 2005, 12:08 PM

Originally Posted by TETENAL

As an iTunes user you don't care about the filename. You access all your music exclusively through iTunes and never through the Finder, so it doesn't matter which name the file has.

The thing is, I'm not going to be just an iTunes user. I have other Windows pcs's on the network which I do not wish to install iTunes on.

SpaceMonkey · Dec 5, 2005, 12:23 PM

Originally Posted by DancingSponge

The thing is, I'm not going to be just an iTunes user. I have other Windows pcs's on the network which I do not wish to install iTunes on.

Unfortunately, iTunes is not very flexible in terms of what directory structure it will put your ripped songs into. If you rip with iTunes, you are stuck with the Artist/Album/Song title structure. Personally, I find this structure to be very intuitive, but some might not. The one saving grace is that iTunes won't care if you re-structure the files after you rip (as long as you turn off the automatic management in the iTunes preferences). So feel free to rename the files after you rip them.

Thinine · Dec 5, 2005, 12:31 PM

Putting all of the track's information in its is just stupid. Use the tags, that's what they're there for. But no, there is no way to have iTunes put all of the information in the track name. Because that's stupid.

siMac · Dec 5, 2005, 01:18 PM

^^^ Right on.

megasad · Dec 5, 2005, 03:34 PM

Originally Posted by DancingSponge

The thing is, I'm not going to be just an iTunes user. I have other Windows pcs's on the network which I do not wish to install iTunes on.

The quickest name to rename a whole bunch of files in one go is to use an application such as Renamer4Mac. An even quicker way, if you have hundreds of MP3s to rename, would be to use Automator / Applescript to take the information straight from the ID3 tags and rename the files with no involvement from you needed, but I have no experience with those, so I cannot help further.