Simultaneous Encoding Is Limited

I bought Phile Audio to save time with its ability to simultaneously encode in multiple formats. The app, however, has a significant limitation that makes it relatively useless for me.

Phile Audio can only import a CD to one iTunes library at a time, and to that library only in one format at a time. Phile Audio stores any other formats in a user-designated folder on the "Audio files path" you have selected in Phile Audio preferences. If you want to import more than one format to a library, or more than one format to multiple libraries, that involves separate operations, and its just as quick and easy (and less expensive) to do that in iTunes directly.

I also found that the AIFF tracks stored by Phile Audio outside an iTunes library didnt contain all of the track information from the CD. When those tracks subsequently are imported into iTunes, you have to add the missing information manually. That may also be true of other formats, but when I found that the AIFF format was broken I didnt bother with any further testing.

All-in-all, I found that Phile Audio didnt do anything I couldnt do better in iTunes, or save me any time, and having to add available track information manually was a non-starter.

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