lolll forever at this piece of shit program, it's really quite something
― brimstead, Saturday, 3 September 2016 09:29 (eight years ago) link
the 'rack of guitars' icon for the "genres" column label is nice though
― brimstead, Saturday, 3 September 2016 09:33 (eight years ago) link
just had to use it this week. ipod no longer has any menus associated with it. you need to click on a tiny icon to access it.
― Einstein, Kazanga, Sitar (abanana), Saturday, 3 September 2016 15:36 (eight years ago) link
I thought this retrohack was pretty clever, though I doubt I'd ever commit to such a project:http://imgur.com/a/VmT9e
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 3 September 2016 19:43 (eight years ago) link
Does anybody use Roon?
― Anacostia Aerodrome (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 13 September 2016 14:55 (eight years ago) link
kudos to dude for having ifixit's guide that also shows pictures and steps to do exactly what he's doing open in the background.
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Tuesday, 13 September 2016 15:04 (eight years ago) link
i don't think i've updated iTunes in years
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Tuesday, 13 September 2016 15:46 (eight years ago) link
I desperately want to buy something off iTunes Japan, is this easy to do or do I have to jump through a shit ton of hoops
― frogbs, Wednesday, 5 October 2016 13:00 (seven years ago) link
The purchase of digital media from countries other than your own almost always involves a piracy-promotingly high level of hoop jumping.
― Our Salads Are Now Almost Entirely Blood-Free! (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 5 October 2016 13:12 (seven years ago) link
and likely you can "find" it online somewhere
― Brevs Mekis (dandydonweiner), Wednesday, 5 October 2016 18:15 (seven years ago) link
I wish - there's a few things that haven't appeared in the usual spots yet
Was hoping someone developed a more streamlined process where you could just PayPal and get the MP3s, but I guess not - everything involves buying weird gift cards and changing a bunch of iTunes settings
― frogbs, Wednesday, 5 October 2016 18:22 (seven years ago) link
Depends on how obscure your needs are, I suppose. Depending on the genre, there are lots of forums/message boards where I've found a request will go a long ways. Too bad we can't have a request thread for that kind of thing around here or ILM, but the mods don't like it.
― Brevs Mekis (dandydonweiner), Wednesday, 5 October 2016 18:31 (seven years ago) link
slsk
yw
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 5 October 2016 18:32 (seven years ago) link
otm
(hi tracer!)
― Brevs Mekis (dandydonweiner), Wednesday, 5 October 2016 18:40 (seven years ago) link
hello dandy don :)
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 5 October 2016 18:45 (seven years ago) link
yeah no luck there either
― frogbs, Wednesday, 5 October 2016 18:46 (seven years ago) link
is it in japanese?
― Brevs Mekis (dandydonweiner), Wednesday, 5 October 2016 18:47 (seven years ago) link
one of them is - I've searched for both the English and Japanese titles
― frogbs, Wednesday, 5 October 2016 18:57 (seven years ago) link
have you ever seen them posted online in a search? Like, you located what you were looking for but the link to the file(s) was dead?
― Brevs Mekis (dandydonweiner), Wednesday, 5 October 2016 19:06 (seven years ago) link
nah haven't seen anything like that either. just links to purchase really expensive copies.
Not much help, I know!
― frogbs, Wednesday, 5 October 2016 19:09 (seven years ago) link
Ehh yes I'd think you could find some japanese forums where things might be shared but since I don't know japanese...haha.
You could make friends with a person in Japan (via forum or whatever) and have them purchase the files on iTunes then have your new friend export them to MP3 then send the files your way. I did that about 10 years ago but I lost track of her so I can't hook you up.
― Brevs Mekis (dandydonweiner), Wednesday, 5 October 2016 19:13 (seven years ago) link
Holy shit WinAmp is back!
― the tightening is plateauing (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 12 October 2016 15:35 (seven years ago) link
that hasn't been updated in a few years iirc?
― Shakey δσς (sic), Wednesday, 12 October 2016 16:23 (seven years ago) link
Yeah that's about right. Seems like there's a big reboot on the way now though.
― the tightening is plateauing (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 12 October 2016 16:38 (seven years ago) link
well I bit the bullet and jumped through the hoops
actually isn't too hard, just find the address of a Japanese hotel and make a dummy account. the store is nearly entirely translated to English so it's not too difficult to find stuff
only complaint is how weirdly expensive it is, albums are about $18 apiece and individual songs are about $2.50
still better than $25 + shipping per CD though
― frogbs, Thursday, 20 October 2016 13:27 (seven years ago) link
Too bad we can't have a request thread for that kind of thing around here or ILM, but the mods don't like it
Well, there's this one:
A thread for hooking people up with stuff that's out of print.
― heaven parker (anagram), Thursday, 20 October 2016 14:48 (seven years ago) link
anyone ever used Roon (https://roonlabs.com/index.html) to replace itunes?
― Brevs Mekis (dandydonweiner), Monday, 24 October 2016 20:24 (seven years ago) link
It's a good idea. There's an add-on to iTunes, or there used to be, that did something similar. Not quite sold on those screenshots tho I will try it.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 24 October 2016 22:40 (seven years ago) link
Now if someone made an iTunes script that could load up the relevant ILX threads in a floating window....
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 24 October 2016 22:41 (seven years ago) link
that looks pretty cool! the emphasis on portability is nice
― brimstead, Monday, 24 October 2016 23:05 (seven years ago) link
lol wait they want $10/month for aggregating songkick info etc? nnnno
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 25 October 2016 00:03 (seven years ago) link
Am gonna use it for a couple of weeks and honestly it's what iTunes should be...the metadata is appreciated (yes Songkick or whomever they are licensing to). Here are early thoughts:
- The default setting is auto shuffle and there seems to be some sort of algo as a basis e.g. Sloan-->Beulah--Warm Soda-->Weezer-->Andrew...yet on shuffle it doesn't play any of the bands that were stated as "influences" in the algo. So, weird.
- There's loads information displayed, that's for sure...
- There's also some weird GUI issues...two clicks to play a track is odd. It doesn't pull lyrics from ID3, it tries to look them up and thus if it can't find them on lookup it thinks it doesn't have the lyrics. In fact, can only summon lyrics if in Album mode. Doesn't connect to last.fm. Connects to TIDAL but not Spotify.
Not worth $114.
― Brevs Mekis (dandydonweiner), Tuesday, 25 October 2016 02:58 (seven years ago) link
I will add that the sound is better through my DAC. Or, at least EQd with stronger bass or something.
I held off updating iTunes for several months due to a growing conviction that iTunes updates generally do more harm than good. Finally gave in a few days ago, to discover that the new version takes away all cover art in the "Artists" sidebar and removes the option to refresh a non-subscribed podcast, while providing no discernible benefits. Why do they do this.
― JRN, Monday, 23 January 2017 16:02 (seven years ago) link
Well one good thing is that they finally fixed the long standing bug where iTunes would rescan thousands of tracks for gapless audio over and over again.
― Siegbran, Monday, 23 January 2017 17:46 (seven years ago) link
AAAAARRRRRRGGGGGHH!H!HH!H!
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 07:51 (seven years ago) link
I will never understand this shit.
With my Samsung phone I can just drag and drop stuff like photos from my phone onto my PC in seconds. Why is this so difficult from iPhone to Mac? I've asked colleagues and they're saying 'Airdrop it', 'Try syncing it in iTunes'... I mean FFS...
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 07:52 (seven years ago) link
I don't want to sync stuff.. I don't know what that even means?!!
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 07:53 (seven years ago) link
managed to do it using random guesswork, but there is nothing intuitive about the way Apple and iTunes works. Anyone who says so is fronting
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 07:58 (seven years ago) link
choose which photo albums to keep on your phone via..... iTunes!! of course!
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 08:07 (seven years ago) link
whatever the view is called when you click on the artwork in the title bar (when iTunes transforms into just the cover art and queue) - if you want to select something else in your library, click apple-1 and the two views will co-exist
― calstars, Monday, 7 August 2017 00:03 (seven years ago) link
If you hold cmd-opt while clicking the artwork it pops out as a single artwork-only window which can me made any size. I run my library off an iMac in the stereo cabinet (USB into a nice DAC even) and I just maximise this as the view with a black desktop and do all the controlling from my phone etc. So you just get the album sleeve on the screen.
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Monday, 7 August 2017 03:01 (seven years ago) link
And just like that... we're back to audio/video management.https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208075
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 01:27 (seven years ago) link
Have they also removed Photos sharing from iTunes? It made absolutely zero sense to put that in iTunes instead of Photos.
― Siegbran, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 06:07 (seven years ago) link
I like mp3s, I like being able to edit them in Adobe audition, I like being able to tag them however I like, I like that they will remain there whatever stupid licensing bullshit goes on in the real world, I like chopping them up and making mixes with them. If having an mp3 is like having a pet, and streaming services are like going to the zoo, then iTunes is like paying someone $1000 to put your pets in the shiniest, worst managed zoo of all time.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 07:44 (seven years ago) link
Not that I chop up and mix my actual pets
that is otm. I avoid Apple like the plague now and it's almost entirely down to iTunes. I was trying to play some FLACs the other day and wondering what was going on until I realised that iTunes Doesnt. Support. FLAC. fuuuuu---
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 08:22 (seven years ago) link
ALAC w/e, swift conversions.
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 09:13 (seven years ago) link
"Books on Windows: Books on iTunes for Windows are managed in iBooks for iOS."
well, that's clear.
― koogs, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 11:31 (seven years ago) link
good luck, apple
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 11:34 (seven years ago) link