David Myers
2003-10-09 06:30:40 UTC
As a new iPOD user who has just discovered the EphPOD site I have a
number
of questions. Perhaps some kind person can help...
Configuration: MusicMatch Plus (Purchased end July 2003)
iPOD Mark II - 15 GB (Purchased end July 2003)
HP-6000 portable with Windows-XP Professional and USB-1
=20
1. The EphPOD introductory material suggests that the MusicMatch CD to
MP3
translator is (very) inferior to LAME. Does anyone have any details
of
the difference? Are there significant audible effects? I have
converted
about 250 CDs (so I don't want to do this all again!), but I have not
noticed any significant drop in quality at the "CD equivalent"
setting
which uses ~900 KB per minute.
2. I have found two bugs in MusicMatch, though. In some cases it clips a
few
seconds off the end of a track and glues it onto the next track (as
if
it doesn't flush a buffer under some circumstances). I also have
managed
to delete an album (~16 tracks) from the iPOD but not from the iPOD
database. This is clearly not a serious problem, but I did want to
clean it up. Has anyone else seen this? I don't know what sequence of
actions I took with MusicMatch to do it. It has been suggested to me
that I could fix it the problem with EphPOD, which leads to the next
question.
3. The EphPOD documentation seems to refer to the Mark I iPOD version
which only ran with Macintosh, or required something called MacOpener
to convert the file system formats. However, if I make hidden files
visible on my W-XP machine then I can see all the iPOD files without
using any such conversion. Also, in the iPOD settings, it states that
the iPOD is using the "Format: Windows". Thus, my conclusion is that
the EphPOD program is designed for the Mark I iPOD only. The question
is will it work with a Mark II (firmware 2.01) set up with a Windows
file system? If it will, does it really require a Firewire card, as
my iPOD connects quite happily to my PC via the USB cable I purchased
from Apple.
Thanks for any replies...
David Myers
Geneva, Switzerland.
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number
of questions. Perhaps some kind person can help...
Configuration: MusicMatch Plus (Purchased end July 2003)
iPOD Mark II - 15 GB (Purchased end July 2003)
HP-6000 portable with Windows-XP Professional and USB-1
=20
1. The EphPOD introductory material suggests that the MusicMatch CD to
MP3
translator is (very) inferior to LAME. Does anyone have any details
of
the difference? Are there significant audible effects? I have
converted
about 250 CDs (so I don't want to do this all again!), but I have not
noticed any significant drop in quality at the "CD equivalent"
setting
which uses ~900 KB per minute.
2. I have found two bugs in MusicMatch, though. In some cases it clips a
few
seconds off the end of a track and glues it onto the next track (as
if
it doesn't flush a buffer under some circumstances). I also have
managed
to delete an album (~16 tracks) from the iPOD but not from the iPOD
database. This is clearly not a serious problem, but I did want to
clean it up. Has anyone else seen this? I don't know what sequence of
actions I took with MusicMatch to do it. It has been suggested to me
that I could fix it the problem with EphPOD, which leads to the next
question.
3. The EphPOD documentation seems to refer to the Mark I iPOD version
which only ran with Macintosh, or required something called MacOpener
to convert the file system formats. However, if I make hidden files
visible on my W-XP machine then I can see all the iPOD files without
using any such conversion. Also, in the iPOD settings, it states that
the iPOD is using the "Format: Windows". Thus, my conclusion is that
the EphPOD program is designed for the Mark I iPOD only. The question
is will it work with a Mark II (firmware 2.01) set up with a Windows
file system? If it will, does it really require a Firewire card, as
my iPOD connects quite happily to my PC via the USB cable I purchased
from Apple.
Thanks for any replies...
David Myers
Geneva, Switzerland.
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