first off id like to thank you otto for this fantastic peice of software.  it has made my life a hell of a lot easier encoding my FLAC libraries

i have a suggestion of improving it somewhat, and i dont think it would involve too much rework of the original sourcecode (not that id know as i dont code myself )

i was wondering if it would be possible to implement a "BAND" tagging switch so that my FB2K "BAND/Album Artist" would be automatically written to the iTunes "Album Artist" tag on conversion of my files. BAND is apparently the string iTunes uses for its "Album Artist" tag. 

I read the readme file, copy and pasted the suggested foobar200 parameters, and it still refuses to convert my flac files to apple lossless! 

Haved tried with both flac and wav versions of the same files, and it fails every time. 

Is it because I'm using foobar2000 1.1.7 and this new version is incompatible with iTunesEncode?  If so, can someone please give me a URL to the old version of foobar200 that does work or tell me which version works with iTunesEncode so that I can find it myself. 

Does the file location of iTunesEncode.exe make any difference?  If its on the desktop, instead of in the same folder as foobar200, could that be the problem? 

i think itunesencode is limited to running a single instance whereas foobar will try and create a new instance for each core if you have a multi core system.  you can change this by going to file>preferences>advanced>tools>converter>thread countand setting it to 1. 

using qaac/qtaacenc would be far better though - they don't have this limitation. 

edit: doh, i only just realised the person with the problem posted back in september. 

i think itunesencode is limited to running a single instance whereas foobar will try and create a new instance for each core if you have a multi core system.  you can change this by going to file>preferences>advanced>tools>converter>thread countand setting it to 1. 

Yes I complained about that single instance problem.  Anyways if qaacenc provides the same quality (same encoding library) then no need to use itunesEncode.