I've been evaluating Media Center 9.1 intermitantly for just over two weeks. I had been quite impressed until I realize that the CD rips I made into .APE format are for version 3.98 alpha. No other program uses 3.98, they use 3.97. Even the Monkey audio site only has v3.97 available for download. Even worse, I messed with the tags of a bunch of my pre-existing v3.97 APE files. I see now that no other 3.97 aware program (all of them) can see the new 3.98 tags. Argh!
What now? I want a lossless format that is not tied to just one software program.
If my files are now MC only readable, do I pay the ransom and purchace Media Center before my trial period ends? I can re-rip my most recent CDs again but I want my tags back proper!
FLAC might be a way out of this, but MC doesn't appear to support them. Is this correct? Easy CD-DA Extractor is the only APE to FLAC capable converter I've found and it doesn't like MC's v3.98 APEs nor MC's tags on v3.97 APE files.
I'd also like to make Mpeg4 AAC files as it is the highest quality per size that my ipod supports. Do any MC plugins support conversion to this file format?