{"id":3598,"date":"2003-10-25T18:32:34","date_gmt":"2003-10-25T18:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=3598"},"modified":"2003-10-25T18:32:34","modified_gmt":"2003-10-25T18:32:34","slug":"cd_ripping_itun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=3598","title":{"rendered":"CD Ripping, iTunes, and Applescript"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being a bit of an anime geek I have a bunch of soundtrack CDs from Japan.  iTunes handles them just wonderfully.  Even CDDB seems to have pretty good results (many times in japanese).  But every once in a while I run into a CD where the information in CDDB is in some strange character set that I can&#8217;t identify.  When this happens I usually check over on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedb.org\/\">FreeDB.org<\/a> to see if they have better information (which they do much of the time). Today I discovered some great scripts for managing my track listings and looking them up on FreeDB.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.malcolmadams.com\/itunes\/index.shtml\">Dave&#8217;s AppleScripts for iTunes<\/a> has tons of useful scripts.  I found one called something like FreeDB to iTunes via Safari that worked amazingly.  It pulls the tracklisting from a FreeDB page and pastes it into iTunes.<\/p>\n<p>Though what I&#8217;d really like is for iTunes to support using FreeDB, since they seem to be a big fan of open source projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being a bit of an anime geek I have a bunch of soundtrack CDs from Japan. iTunes handles them just wonderfully. Even CDDB seems to have pretty good results (many times in japanese). But every once in a while I run into a CD where the information in CDDB is in some strange character set [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}