OK, so here is the best way to backup and rip your CD on the Mac:
# iTunes-LAME. To rip. So you insert you CD and click on it. , Make sure that iTunes-LAME is set to _–alt-preset fast extreme_ which is most folks think the best tradeoff between compression and CD quality. Now, you want to stick you music at the main volume and not way down in your personal directory, so create /Music/mp3/ and point iTunes-LAME there, then when you create the album, you want its name to be _:%a:%l:%a – %l – %n – %t which means put it in a subdirectory for the artist and then for the album, finally, name the track as _artist_ – _album_ – _track number_ – _song title_.mp3. This is good because no matter where you copy your tracks, you won’t forget where it belongs. You are now ready to push encode and away you go.
# Harmonic widget should be on and set to automatically install the lyrics into iTunes
# Amazon Art Finder widget should also be installed and set to operate on the whole album.
# Use the iTunes control widget and go to the playlist that iTunes-LAME automatically creates in iTunes, play each song. The lyrics are added automatically by Harmonic and when you get to the first song, click on the Amazon Art Finder to get the art and then click on Add Art to iTunes
At the end, you have to go through each song, but you will have lyrics and album art in each MP3.
Tags: Lame, Lyrics, Mac, Music Mp3, Personal Directory, Playlist, Tradeoff, Widget, Workflow
[...] See Final Mac Ripping Workflow | Tongfamily Website as it is still the best way to get a high quality MP3 encoding on your Mac. You basically use a free tool called iTunes-LAME instead of iTunes itself and then you use two widgets Harmonic to find lyrics and Amazon Art Finder to find album art. The main problem is that Harmonic seems to fail much more at finding lyrics now. Don’t know why. I also us nlyric, but this really only works well when I’m in China. The servers must be closer [...]