Comments on: A Death Knell For Requiem?

By: kanenas

kanenas — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:07:51 +0000

For the technically minded, you can back up “/Users/Shared/SC Info” (“%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\\Application Data\\Apple Computer\\iTunes\\SC Info” under MS Windows), then patch the requiem source to use the old directory. You could also backup the new authorization data once you upgrade and put the old SC Info folder in its place, but this might prevent iTunes from playing protected files (not much of a problem, obviously). Personally, I don’t find iTunes 8 to be that much of an improvement over 7.7.1.

By: MegaZone

MegaZone — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:58:28 +0000

Yeah, I’ve played with Tunebite. But it is a lossy program. More than just transcoding, it actually captures the sound after decoding. So it ‘plays’ the track and it is decoded into analog form, but it captures that with a special sound device and routes that into an encoder. So it is effectively the same as burning a DVD and re-ripping it, just a lot faster and more convenient.

The good news is the author of Requiem is working on making it work in iTunes 8.0.

By: Glenn

Glenn — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:07:57 +0000

If you’re willing to spend money, TuneBite has always worked for me. Just scripts the iTunes interface and hacks into the playback audio path to capture and convert it to mp3. Obviously there is some transcoding loss, but its not obvious and obviously you should be buying things elsewhere whenever possible anyway, so hopefully you don’t need it too often.

By: Daghead

Daghead — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:36:51 +0000

True, true, true…

Keep up the great work people, looking forward to being able to upgrade!