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<blockquote data-quote="chas_m" data-source="post: 1184434"><p>Must ... resist ... obvious joke ...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Let me start by saying all are great questions, but the chief answer to all of them is this: the Mac isn't anything like Linux. Whole different attitude required. Now, then, to your questions:</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Not in the manner you are thinking, no. Expose and Spaces takes care of this instead.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yes, iTunes itself will do this for you. Make a playlist of songs that you're going to burn to CD, then select File -> Print and choose from the options. It's pretty cool actually.</p><p></p><p>There are great third-party programs that offer some variation on this, from Roxio's Toast to BeLight's Disc Cover. But iTunes is all that is actually required.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>iTunes handles all of this. When you specify that you are burning an Audio CD, iTunes will convert the songs on-the-fly to the correct format for Orange Book CD Audio, regardless of what format the songs are in your library. Likewise, you can also burn "MP3 CDs" for car stereos that read those -- but the songs should already be in MP3 format.</p><p></p><p>If they're not and you would like them to be, iTunes can convert them (Advanced Menu). These days most everyone uses an MP4-compatible device (ie iPods), so having music in MP3 format is less necessary than it used to be. I prefer the MP4 codec myself, and havent found myself needing MP3 format for a long time (though I'm sure I still have quite a few from my many years of ripping songs).</p><p></p><p>Again, iTunes generally handles all this stuff by itself.</p><p></p><p>Finally, to edit tags for MP3 or MP4 files, just select a song or group of songs and choose command-i (get info). Here you can drag in artwork or lyrics, type in any additional info you want (iTunes will "grab" CDDB info from ripped or purchased tracks all by itself), set genres, rate tracks and so forth.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chas_m, post: 1184434"] Must ... resist ... obvious joke ... Let me start by saying all are great questions, but the chief answer to all of them is this: the Mac isn't anything like Linux. Whole different attitude required. Now, then, to your questions: Not in the manner you are thinking, no. Expose and Spaces takes care of this instead. Yes, iTunes itself will do this for you. Make a playlist of songs that you're going to burn to CD, then select File -> Print and choose from the options. It's pretty cool actually. There are great third-party programs that offer some variation on this, from Roxio's Toast to BeLight's Disc Cover. But iTunes is all that is actually required. iTunes handles all of this. When you specify that you are burning an Audio CD, iTunes will convert the songs on-the-fly to the correct format for Orange Book CD Audio, regardless of what format the songs are in your library. Likewise, you can also burn "MP3 CDs" for car stereos that read those -- but the songs should already be in MP3 format. If they're not and you would like them to be, iTunes can convert them (Advanced Menu). These days most everyone uses an MP4-compatible device (ie iPods), so having music in MP3 format is less necessary than it used to be. I prefer the MP4 codec myself, and havent found myself needing MP3 format for a long time (though I'm sure I still have quite a few from my many years of ripping songs). Again, iTunes generally handles all this stuff by itself. Finally, to edit tags for MP3 or MP4 files, just select a song or group of songs and choose command-i (get info). Here you can drag in artwork or lyrics, type in any additional info you want (iTunes will "grab" CDDB info from ripped or purchased tracks all by itself), set genres, rate tracks and so forth. [/QUOTE]
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