Hatred of Itunes

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!

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 Drive
SONG: 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.

You know, they ARE programmers. If this were to be integrated into iTunes, they could make it do it right :)

folder monitoring doesn't have to be instantaneous! DO YOU NOT GET THE IDEA OF SCHEDULED TASKS

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.

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.

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.

come on, even you can see the futility of that statement.

Maybe my brain is like a relational database.

-- 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)

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.

dislike change? steer clear of updates

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.

How are they ordered now?

it just ordered me to reinstall :(:(:(:(

will my playlists still exist?

it's a crapshoot.

what happened? just crashed?

it said like "itunes can not run, plz reinstall itunes"

!

Tried something like gtkpod? I don't know what kind of computer you're using.

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??

Are they bringing out a new version of this piece of shit soon or what?

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 (5 minutes ago) Link

they're smart playlists. you can make 'em yourself, using whatever criteria you want.

oy thx b nard.

meh still can't figure this out.

file -> "new smart playlist", then just pick the criteria you want to use for including songs on the playlist. for "top 25 most played", it's "limit to 25 items selected by most often played"; "recently added" is "date added is in the last 3 months" (live updating on for both, of course).

still got em, whew!

i still use Cog and i still love it -

http://cogx.org

for special playlists i make smart folders right in the Finder.

Cog also has a cousin, called "Play", which uses iTunes' "media library" approach to music organisation if that's what you prefer -

http://sbooth.org/Play

iTunes demanded that I reinstall it and I said no. Now Quicktime is screwing up, possibly due to its unholy alliance with iTunes updates.