Comfortable Disappearance

I love the ease of Blacktree’s iTunes-LAME application. It makes ripping CDs in high-quality incredibly easy. LAME (LAME Ain’t no Mp3 Encoder), is an encoder that allows for ripping CDs at high-quality compression ratios, given you the most “bang for your buck” in your audio files.

Unfortunately, Blacktree’s current version of iTunes-LAME didn’t support the latest iTunes version (currently 7.4.2), causing a bit of panic when I went to rip some CDs last night. Thankfully, Blacktree has an updated version on their Google Code site, which works perfectly. Apple discontinued AppleScript Support in the latest versions of iTunes, but you can simple treat iTunes-LAME as a stand-alone application and it works fine.