Jukebox for dummy

Bobby Dandruff

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LincsOSCA said:
Good job neither of us bought directly from forum members, they would have been well & truly rumbled!
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Now THAT is a great idea for a separate thread!

Name (and shame!) the previous owner by the contents of the jukebox on your car.

My 4.2 had some quite good stuff on actually.
 
Felonious Crud

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^^ What Frank said.

If you're an iTunes user there's a Mac tool called mp3 converter which will convert your entire iTunes library to mp3, including the album / track directory structure. You can then use a tool called BlueHarvest to strip out all the strange artefact files which will have appeared. Note that the Maserati system can't handle over 999 tracks, so you'll need to be selective. Oh, and you won't be able to list by artist, only by album title... so you may find your have numerous albums called "Greatest hits".
 
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CatmanV2

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Copying the MP3s vai CD is not *too* painful. And Adam, I can't even get my my collection on a 60G iPod, so I was always going to be selective :)

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murph7355

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Felonious Crud said:
^^ What Frank said.

If you're an iTunes user there's a Mac tool called mp3 converter which will convert your entire iTunes library to mp3, including the album / track directory structure. You can then use a tool called BlueHarvest to strip out all the strange artefact files which will have appeared. Note that the Maserati system can't handle over 999 tracks, so you'll need to be selective. Oh, and you won't be able to list by artist, only by album title... so you may find your have numerous albums called "Greatest hits".
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iTunes itself can convert to MP3. Once converted, just copy them to a USB stick and delete them from iTunes.

I have a tool called MusicRenamer - basically let's you rename files based on any of the tags against the file (e.g. artist, track, track number, album etc etc). So I've....

- for albums by one artist, I create a folder called <artist> - <album name>, and then in the folder change track names to just the track name with no number etc.
- for mixed albums, I create a folder called <album name>, and then in the folder change the track names to <track name>, <artist name>

I also use the dot_clean function after copying everything to the USB stick to get rid of all the rinky dink files that then show up in the Jukebox.

It's easier than it sounds, and once done, it's done (or will be - I'm not finished yet). But copying does take forever! I think it took around 2hrs to copy 500 tracks which is nuts.

Didn't know it could only take 999 tracks though. That seems daft bearing in mind it has 20Gb available. Will have to have a read of the manual as that's a major limitation...
 
StuartW

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I think it's a 10gh hard drive so if your files are fairly small, that's a shed load of songs
 
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Felonious Crud said:
It's 999 tracks via usb. I expect that the HD will handle as many as it can squeeze in.
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Ah ta. In the manual I could see that track names can't be > 99 characters but couldn't see the USB limit, however I did see xxx/999 when trying to copy over and the copy was a bit random (not copying everything over). I'll do smaller batches next time.

LincsOSCA said:
I think it's a 10gh hard drive so if your files are fairly small, that's a shed load of songs
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30Gb with ~20Gb free. Should be good for ~3,000-4,000 tracks :)
 
StuartW

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I 'THINK' when I checked the capacity in the audio section, it said 10gb was the capacity on mine but I may be wrong - an accountant over inflating figures? Not me
 
JonW

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Felonious Crud said:
^^ What Frank said.

If you're an iTunes user there's a Mac tool called mp3 converter which will convert your entire iTunes library to mp3, including the album / track directory structure. You can then use a tool called BlueHarvest to strip out all the strange artefact files which will have appeared. Note that the Maserati system can't handle over 999 tracks, so you'll need to be selective. Oh, and you won't be able to list by artist, only by album title... so you may find your have numerous albums called "Greatest hits".
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This is a perfect example of what this Forum is great for - thank you Adam! I'm about to download Blue Harvest and hopefully get rid of the ._ files....
 
JonW

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Contigo said:
I've answered in the other thread mate.
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Thanks - saw that, but for some reason my Jukebox doesn't recognise mp4a files, and when I convert to MP3 and copy them to the USB it seems to double up, so a 12 track album has 24 files copied across... I don't know if it's just a Mac thing?
 
CatmanV2

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JonW said:
Thanks - saw that, but for some reason my Jukebox doesn't recognise mp4a files, and when I convert to MP3 and copy them to the USB it seems to double up, so a 12 track album has 24 files copied across... I don't know if it's just a Mac thing?
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You're probably copying over resource forks as well _whateversong.mp4a

If you open the disc once you've copied it over, you can probably see them and delete them. Bit of a PITA but more the NIT's fault than the Mac. Probably

<edit> Apparently there's a terminal command to merge them back, but given you don't need the data for the NIT it's probably not worth effort. Let's put it like this: If you understand 'man dot_clean' then you might want to give it a try. Otherwise don't :D

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JonW

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CatmanV2 said:
You're probably copying over resource forks as well _whateversong.mp4a

If you open the disc once you've copied it over, you can probably see them and delete them. Bit of a PITA but more the NIT's fault than the Mac. Probably

<edit> Apparently there's a terminal command to merge them back, but given you don't need the data for the NIT it's probably not worth effort. Let's put it like this: If you understand 'man dot_clean' then you might want to give it a try. Otherwise don't :D

C
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Thanks C

Am currently converting my iTunes library to MP3, and will then copy that over in chunks to the USB, which is set up with BlueHarvest to remove the ._ files...

It is a big PITA, but at least this way I will have full album names and track data... (fingers crossed!)
 
CatmanV2

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JonW said:
Thanks C

Am currently converting my iTunes library to MP3, and will then copy that over in chunks to the USB, which is set up with BlueHarvest to remove the ._ files...

It is a big PITA, but at least this way I will have full album names and track data... (fingers crossed!)
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*Should* do as my (slightly aging) memory tells me that the album, track etc is stored in the metadata of the MP3 itself.

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JonW

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CatmanV2 said:
You're probably copying over resource forks as well _whateversong.mp4a

If you open the disc once you've copied it over, you can probably see them and delete them. Bit of a PITA but more the NIT's fault than the Mac. Probably

<edit> Apparently there's a terminal command to merge them back, but given you don't need the data for the NIT it's probably not worth effort. Let's put it like this: If you understand 'man dot_clean' then you might want to give it a try. Otherwise don't :D

C
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P.s. What's a NIT?
 
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