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I have thousands of CDs ripped to iTunes but hundreds of tracks have vanished and Apple clearly have no interest in maintaing the platform. It is only going to get worse.
Possibly getting old hat now but are there any modern, reliable, streamable CD ripper boxes of the Brennan or Cocktail Audio ilk that won't die if looked at the wrong way? I want something entirely independant from the PC that can output to phones, iPods and SD cards. Bluetooth would be good too.
No I don't want a streaming service as that needs a stable connection. I already have the CDs.
Cheers
I'm surprised tracks have vanished. Have you checked if the media files themselves still exist on your hard drive?
They do but iTunes won't recognise them. It has also started to mislabel albums and tracks. I downloaded Music Bee to rescue the situation to no avail. PC is 5 years old. Want to start again with a stand alone device that can link to a hard drive and play through a hifi or BT speaker.
CDs?
Get with the times Grandad .... it’s all about vinyl now. 😉
Wheesht! My 16 y.o. daughter is making noises about vinyl. She was told to do one! Got boxes of 33s, 45s and cassettes in the loft, they can stay there!
just listen to them on your 8 track tape machine you have stashed away 🙂
My Dad has Queen 'Night at the Opera' on Philips reel to reel. Wonder if he's got Nirvana on wax cylinder?
I'd rip them on computer (I do) to ensure they're properly tagged. Then Apple Music (I presume that's what you have) and iTunes will recognise them. If you use some auto-ripper box and it can't find a CDDB entry, you'll lose em to the Unknown Artist/Unknown Album wasteland.
They were all ripped to iTunes and all was well from 2008 to 2015 when iTunes 'upgrades' started to lose or mislabel info. Initially the odd track, now quite significant losses, particularly recent albums. Can rip a CD to Apple lossless, convert to AAC, come back the next day and nothing is there. Mildly annoying!
I'd agree with DezB - it's not the answer you were looking for, but do it on a computer with something like MediaMonkey to ensure the tagging is all done properly. And store to a HDD independent of any crapware like iTunes/ Google Music etc - if you want to also upload/ import them to some proprietary library tool like iTunes, you can, but you also have the originals stored safely away.
...or regain your life and get Spotify... 🙂
They were all ripped to iTunes and all was well from 2008 to 2015 when iTunes ‘upgrades’ started to lose or mislabel info
Weird that. Can't explain it. I've got close to a 1TB library in iTunes and I'm damn sure it's all still there. (all backed up to NAS, just in case).
Maybe it's just that your itunes library is ****ed. Back it up, delete the library file (see link), then open itunes and add the files to the new (empty) library.
https://ccm.net/faq/38758-how-to-reset-the-itunes-library
Thanks r83, will give that a try.