Pardon the OT post, but, I doubt there is anywhere I could post this question with a higher chance of getting a good explanation.
My kids gave me the little 4GB I-pod for Christmas this year. I am in the process of importing hours and hours of music that I digitized from vinyl. I had a devil of a time figuring out that the best way to accomplish that was to burn each album to an RW-CD disc first, then import to I-tunes from there (don't know why they made it that way). At any rate, I succeeded as described above in transferring some music from my external HD's to the Itunes and will eventually load them onto the I-pod.
What really surprised me, though (and this is the reason for this post) is that an entire collection of Betthoven symphony recordings released in 1964 imported simply as Track 01, Track 02, etc., was instantaneously recognized track by track with the name of the symphony, the movement with key, date of the recording, etc.
How does Itunes do this? I would have been less surprised/impressed to see this had I been ripping commercially manufactured disks, but, what info was pressed into a 1964 recording that would allow Itunes to remotely determine so much info about that old recording.
BTW, we are all professional musicians here, and the kids got me this thing to play music on the go - I'm not interested in starting any battles for or against Apple. Just curious how they can be so knowledgeable about my recording.
Thanks for your responses.
Del
My kids gave me the little 4GB I-pod for Christmas this year. I am in the process of importing hours and hours of music that I digitized from vinyl. I had a devil of a time figuring out that the best way to accomplish that was to burn each album to an RW-CD disc first, then import to I-tunes from there (don't know why they made it that way). At any rate, I succeeded as described above in transferring some music from my external HD's to the Itunes and will eventually load them onto the I-pod.
What really surprised me, though (and this is the reason for this post) is that an entire collection of Betthoven symphony recordings released in 1964 imported simply as Track 01, Track 02, etc., was instantaneously recognized track by track with the name of the symphony, the movement with key, date of the recording, etc.
How does Itunes do this? I would have been less surprised/impressed to see this had I been ripping commercially manufactured disks, but, what info was pressed into a 1964 recording that would allow Itunes to remotely determine so much info about that old recording.
BTW, we are all professional musicians here, and the kids got me this thing to play music on the go - I'm not interested in starting any battles for or against Apple. Just curious how they can be so knowledgeable about my recording.
Thanks for your responses.
Del