[Jenn]

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vlad wrote:

On Jul 23, 9:31 am, Jenn wrote:
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vlad wrote:
Arnie, thanks for your kind response.

On Jul 23, 4:32 am, "Arny Krueger" wrote:
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I am trying to put my CD library into my new shiny iPod.
On the surface it looks easy: - start iTunes, put CD in
CD-ROM, rip.

It is iTunes on Windows.

1) I have two CD readers, CD-ROM and DVD-ROM. iTunes
recognizes only on of them, the slowest one.

Complain to Apple. Its software should recognize every drive and give
you
the option to choose.

Yes, I will contact them today.

2) many tracks when I am listening them on iPod have
skips in them (fraction of the second pauses in a middle
of the track). Few tracks even have missing pieces,
repeated fragments, etc.

As others have pointed out, this is a problem with lost data.

First I thought my iPod is faulty, then I noticed that
that same defects are in tracks on PC in iTunes data
files. I listened them side by side (PC and iPod), they
are identical.

IME, iPods are better products in general than iTunes is as a CD
ripper.

So, from there skips are coming?

iTunes is apparently not as good of a CD ripper as Winamp on your PC.
The
problem could be your PC hardware especially the optical disc drives,
or it
could be the configuration of your PC (i.e., not fast enough CPU, not
enough
RAM), or it could be due to other software that is running on your PC
at the
same time.

3.0 gigaherz Athlon with 2 gigabytes of memory. And I make sure that
this is the only application running.

It can have lousy codec, but at least it must be able to read data
from CD and process them without skippings. Is it too much to ask?

. . .

I can see where iTunes would put the files into a different place in
the
hierarchy, but there may be some way to control that by changing tags
after
you load them into iTunes, etc.

You are right about it. Unfortunately changing tags in iTunes means
typing them manually.

How does one change tags in other software?

Ever heard about "drag and drop" paradigm?

That's funny that to Mac user retyping tags again and again seem
normal.

vlad

I don't retype tags again and again. I've never had to do that. I
insert the disk, if tags are in the database, it downloads them. Pretty
easy.