― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 19:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 19:48 (eighteen years ago) link
Look at all the hassle and BS people go through with iTunes and ipods, and the entire appeal of a mac is that it's user-friendly even to "liberal arts idiots," who by the way are typically the only people to defend macs.
No possible defense can be made for iTunes run on a PC, it is so shitty that it must be a deliberate attempt to sabotage the PC experience. That attempt, that Ned linked to above, to keep Apple from forcing ipod users to install TEH HATED ITUNES and KEEP THE ENTIRE HUGE IPOD PLAYLIST STORED ON THE HD EXACTLY AS IS is amazing. If it ever comes to it, though, I think Apple would rather lose the entire European market than give consumers any kind of freedom.
― richardk (Richard K), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 19:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 19:53 (eighteen years ago) link
Basically when you install iTune+quicktime, you are installing a large chunk of OS X lots of the Carbon and Cocoa APIs), every update includes any updates and bugfixes to these chunks of OS X, I guess they figure it is better to reinstall from scratch every time than to patch.
It is a bugger though.
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 20:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 20:06 (eighteen years ago) link
FOR FUCK'S SAKE DO YOU PEOPLE NOT GET THE IDEA OF METADATA?
folder monitoring doesn't have to be instantaneous! DO YOU NOT GET THE IDEA OF SCHEDULED TASKS
― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 20:07 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.dougscripts.com/itunes/itinfo/folderaction01.php
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 20:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 20:16 (eighteen years ago) link
Try using the Mac version of Windows Media player! That may be the worst "media" software ever.
That attempt, that Ned linked to above, to keep Apple from forcing ipod users to install TEH HATED ITUNES and KEEP THE ENTIRE HUGE IPOD PLAYLIST STORED ON THE HD EXACTLY AS IS is amazing.
Uh, you can manually move stuff to the iPod inside iTunes. USE 1 BRANE MORAN
If it ever comes to it, though, I think Apple would rather lose the entire European market than give consumers any kind of freedom.
Dude, you can still do whatever you want with all your DRM-free music. Do you really think the DRM music from anyone else is any better? At least Apple Music Store works on more than one platform!
― R.I.P. Concrete Octopus ]-`: is a guy with a belly button piercing (ex machina), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 20:26 (eighteen years ago) link
Yeah really, this is total delusional talk. There are programs that fix your filenames for you, ie FileRenamer. Tagging is no more reliable than filenaming, and just confuses things when it comes to filesharing.
Did you read what I wrote upthread?ARTIST: At the DriveSONG: In-One Armed Scissor
BAD BAD BAD SOLUTION.
iTunes will rename the filenames and manage the folder hierarchy to keep it in line with the metadata store if you let it. There is no problem.
― R.I.P. Concrete Octopus ]-`: is a guy with a belly button piercing (ex machina), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 20:28 (eighteen years ago) link
You know, they ARE programmers. If this were to be integrated into iTunes, they could make it do it right :)
That isn't folder monitoring. Monitoring is either instantaneous or happens over a very short cycle time via something like Linux's FAM. If you want the batch task sort of behavior, there's all kinds of applications to let you do that. Now, sometimes I am actually doing something intensive on my computer and I wouldn't want iTunes import to take up any memory or cpu (unlike you sad people who spend your lives in Word and complaining that iTunes is too hard) so I wouldn't want this kind of thing.
FOLDER ACTIONS!!!!
The problem with Folder actions is that the actions only register from Finder actions IIRC. This means that file transfer programs will not register events upon download completetion.
― R.I.P. Concrete Octopus ]-`: is a guy with a belly button piercing (ex machina), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 20:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 21:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 21:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― R.I.P. Concrete Octopus ]-`: is a guy with a belly button piercing (ex machina), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 21:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― My faxed joke won a pager in the cable TV quiz show. (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 21:45 (eighteen years ago) link
haha jon that's not true at all! neither winamp nor foobar define folder monitoring as instantaneous or short-cycled; they're totally customizable. hence my point uptop that if you wanted to curtail the computer hiccuping every five minutes, you could set it to monitor every 24 hours so it functions more like a scheduled task.
i'm sorry that you don't think that's what folder monitoring is, but each program i mentioned calls that customizable feature "folder monitoring", as do most of these people.
― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 21:54 (eighteen years ago) link
yes you are, you're talking about UI design, on which you're a completely incomprehensible and reactionary fanboy dimbulb for whatever program you're using that week.
― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 21 March 2006 21:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― R.I.P. Concrete Octopus ]-`: is a guy with a belly button piercing (ex machina), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 22:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 22:03 (eighteen years ago) link
come on, even you can see the futility of that statement.
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 22:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 21 March 2006 22:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― R.I.P. Concrete Octopus ]-`: is a guy with a belly button piercing (ex machina), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 22:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― R.I.P. Concrete Octopus ]-`: is a guy with a belly button piercing (ex machina), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 22:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 22:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― R.I.P. Concrete Octopus ]-`: is a guy with a belly button piercing (ex machina), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 22:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― clodia pulchra (emo by proxy), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 23:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― R.I.P. Concrete Octopus ]-`: is a guy with a belly button piercing (ex machina), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 23:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 21 March 2006 23:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 21 March 2006 23:32 (eighteen years ago) link
Maybe my brain is like a relational database.
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 23:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― R.I.P. Concrete Octopus ]-`: is a guy with a belly button piercing (ex machina), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 23:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 00:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Equator Lounge (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 01:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― R.I.P. Concrete Octopus ]-`: is a guy with a belly button piercing (ex machina), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 03:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― toby (tsg20), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 09:31 (eighteen years ago) link
-- Tracer Hand
ha its not like i have something virtuoso crazy going or anything, like for the strays its
2006 >+ random rnb+ random rap+ dancehall, riddim subsets, soca, oldskool+ random grime > radio rips, sets, shop clips, rng+ random random
big deal. if u listen to new music all day ur not fucking with well tagged business, and nor would i be able to work with searching for stray nobody artists i never heard of and might never remember again; alba likes to bust the pretence of being an organic feely starchild all about the music maaan but really itunes is far more set up for bitter shopkeeper learned id3 scholarship than winamp, which is a bit clunkier i suppose but still has a way more colloqial relation to the way ppl listen to music cos it bloody well reminds u ur listening to fucking mp3s on a fucking computer, whats that got to do with real life! like ooh, u can add poxy *starzz* to remember if u like something, how human! (this sort of totally fake 'feature' is 100000x gayer than any wonky ashley simpson skin on a winamp btw)
― rtcotm (mwah), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 10:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― R.I.P. Concrete Octopus ]-`: is a guy with a belly button piercing (ex machina), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 14:44 (eighteen years ago) link
god, this new little update is stupid. when browsing, i'm used to having artist names and album names that start with numbers or special characters at the top. i dislike change.
― andi, Saturday, 30 June 2007 13:12 (seventeen years ago) link
dislike change? steer clear of updates
― Alan, Saturday, 30 June 2007 13:14 (seventeen years ago) link
Easy to say when you're sleepy and it says "hey, want to install this update?" and you click Yes Please instead of Leave Me Alone.
― accentmonkey, Saturday, 30 June 2007 13:31 (seventeen years ago) link
How are they ordered now?
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Saturday, 30 June 2007 13:39 (seventeen years ago) link
it just ordered me to reinstall :(:(:(:(
will my playlists still exist?
it's a crapshoot.
― roxymuzak, Thursday, 13 December 2007 02:11 (sixteen years ago) link
what happened? just crashed?
― stevienixed, Thursday, 13 December 2007 02:12 (sixteen years ago) link
it said like "itunes can not run, plz reinstall itunes"
!
― roxymuzak, Thursday, 13 December 2007 02:21 (sixteen years ago) link
Tried something like gtkpod? I don't know what kind of computer you're using.
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 13 December 2007 05:23 (sixteen years ago) link
my itunes crashed and i lost all my playlists. does anyone know how to get the itunes preset playlists back? i'm talking like "top 25 most played" and "recently added". is it in preferences or something??
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 13 December 2007 05:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Are they bringing out a new version of this piece of shit soon or what?
― W4LTER, Thursday, 13 December 2007 05:29 (sixteen years ago) link