iTunes 7.6.1 truncates last CD track?

There is talk on the Apple discussion forums about iTunes 7.6.1 and how
it supposedly chops off the last few seconds on the last track on every
CD it imports. Has anyone here had this problem? What did you do about
it?

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In article <no-B9609D.10182128032008@news.west.cox.net>, Babaganoosh
<no@spam.invalid> wrote:

> There is talk on the Apple discussion forums about iTunes 7.6.1 and how
> it supposedly chops off the last few seconds on the last track on every
> CD it imports. Has anyone here had this problem? What did you do about
> it?

I've had this problem.

I work around it by importing the last track in "lossless" format
(which doesn't truncate) and then converting that to AAC format.

I'm surprised there hasn't been a fix released for this yet, actually.

- Steve

In article <280320081351438837%maser@umich.edu>,
Steve Maser <maser@umich.edu> wrote:

> In article <no-B9609D.10182128032008@news.west.cox.net>, Babaganoosh
> <no@spam.invalid> wrote:
> 
>
> I've had this problem.
>
> I work around it by importing the last track in "lossless" format
> (which doesn't truncate) and then converting that to AAC format.
>
> I'm surprised there hasn't been a fix released for this yet, actually.

I'm wondering if QuickTime and/or what encoding method is used in
iTunes, might also be to blame.

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In article <no-A80880.15483128032008@news.west.cox.net>, Babaganoosh
<no@spam.invalid> wrote:

> In article <280320081351438837%maser@umich.edu>,
>  Steve Maser <maser@umich.edu> wrote:
> 
>
> I'm wondering if QuickTime and/or what encoding method is used in
> iTunes, might also be to blame.

I just experienced this for the first time this evening and tried the
"lossless" solution suggested above, but the identical thing occurred.
However, I imported as AIFF and all went well.  I hope that there's a
fix issued soon.

Cheers!

Mudge

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In article <no-B9609D.10182128032008@news.west.cox.net>,
Babaganoosh <no@spam.invalid> wrote:

> There is talk on the Apple discussion forums about iTunes 7.6.1 and how
> it supposedly chops off the last few seconds on the last track on every
> CD it imports. Has anyone here had this problem? What did you do about
> it?

I never use the iTunes ripper.  It's 10 tons of crap.

Alternatives -

Max - http://sbooth.org/Max/
CD Stack - http://www.kapraet.com/
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In article <megadethguy-9C3D63.20513228032008@news.comcast.net>,
Megadave <megadethguy@invalidgmail.domaincom> wrote:

> In article <no-B9609D.10182128032008@news.west.cox.net>,
>  Babaganoosh <no@spam.invalid> wrote:
> 
>
> I never use the iTunes ripper.  It's 10 tons of crap.

That's funny. It's worked ust fine for me, through multiple versions of
iTunes, for years and years.

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Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
 
>
> That's funny. It's worked ust fine for me, through multiple versions of
> iTunes, for years and years.

I was thinking the same thing.  Don't you just love the people who post
to say something is crap without any explanation whatsoever?  It's
especially funny when they're talking about something that works
flawlessly most of the time.

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In article <1iejznf. 9rjxj414vqukyN%mikePOST@TOGROUPmacconsul
t.com>,
mikePOST@TOGROUPmacconsult.com (Mike Rosenberg) wrote:

> Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
> 
>
> I was thinking the same thing.  Don't you just love the people who post
> to say something is crap without any explanation whatsoever?  It's
> especially funny when they're talking about something that works
> flawlessly most of the time.

OK.. you and JR got me on that one...  But I note you *did* say "most of
the time".. ;)

Now that I think about it... the only one I used was the Windows iTunes
ripper.  THAT one - rather than retry when it hit a flaw in a CD would
just put a dropout in the ripped song.  A 'blank' spot.  Every version
until I moved to the Mac did the same thing.  Regardless of the PC I
used.  I just got fed up.  On Windows I use EAC and LAME - and on that
platform there is *nothing* better.

I've tried the Mac version of the ripper.. and while I didn't have the
problem with dropouts I *did* run into issues where it would simply
stall while ripping some of my CDs where CD Stack and Max worked fine.

Perhaps it was my media (tho I keep my CDs in pristine shape - they
never leave the house, etc).. perhaps it was bugs in iTunes (that later
may or may not have been fixed).  No idea..  I just know overall I've
had better luck with other tools.
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On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:51:32 -0700, Megadave
<megadethguy@invalidgmail.domaincom> wrote:

>I never use the iTunes ripper.  It's 10 tons of crap.

How do you know it is that heavy?

It works for me.

In article <pkg4v354f8bo0ssc2ke6bhutf0f6d3lsub@4ax.com>,
Howard Brazee <howard@brazee.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:51:32 -0700, Megadave
> <megadethguy@invalidgmail.domaincom> wrote:
> 
>
> How do you know it is that heavy?
>
> It works for me.

Me too.

In fact I just ripped a CD with iTunes 7.6.1, and it *didn't* truncate
the last track.

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pulled down the stars to our will."
- Ezra Pound, poet and critic, 9/18/1912, reflecting on New York City