New Apple Lust Objects

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but don't you know that already? i'm just confused about that. if there's a song or an album i haven't listened to, i mean, i know that i haven't listened to it. i don't need my computer to tell me that!

the other metadata you mention is not exclusive to itunes. any mp3 player can access it. and you can make smart folders that can access that stuff, too (genre, etc). no need for itunes. the problem for me with mp3 metadata is that the tags are rarely done properly, so there's this enormous - and never-ending - busywork of fixing them all, or adding them when they're missing - and you need to really do it, or else the entire system doesn't work (if, say eight songs out of your library of 10,000 songs don't have the year tag, then you're going to overlook those when compiling your "best of 2002" compilation). i have got enough things keeping me awake nights without wondering if my id3 tags are on straight.

i have to say i do like the idea of tagging things "single song", "full album" and "spoken". (if i could be asked)

if the aperture thingie is that good, do you think the concept could be applied to music? i keep bigging up the finder because i dislike itunes so much, but it course does blow, too. it would definitely be interesting to see something that DOES work well. (coverflow is beautiful but useless for my music, which is almost all singles).

I frequently find I'll rip a CD and then totally forget about it, only to rediscover it weeks later. If I bothered to use iTunes' smart playlists I'm sure it would be quite handy in reminding me what I haven't listened to yet. (I only really use iTunes to copy music to my iPod)

the problem for me with mp3 metadata is that the tags are rarely done properly

You don't tag your own mp3s properly? Oh, you mean you download them from p2p networks and they're not tagged how you like? Why don't you just use iTunes' nifty metadata editor to retag each album as you import it into the database? It takes about 30 seconds.

itunes 7 pissed me off this morning by seeming to have forgotten that i'm managing the ipod myself, necessitating another reset and 2 hours refilling it. fingers crossed it works this time. still, all worth it for gapless playback,which is making me go back to loads of mixes i haven't heard in ages.

wot a surprise eh

Andrew OTM here: I often rip six or seven CDs at once, and can then forget to listen to a track here or there.

the other metadata you mention is not exclusive to itunes. any mp3 player can access it. and you can make smart folders that can access that stuff, too (genre, etc). no need for itunes.
Well, aye, but I didn't think you were talking about other MP3 players -- you were suggesting using the Finder to do it, which can't access any of this.

compilation). i have got enough things keeping me awake nights without wondering if my id3 tags are on straight.

i have to say i do like the idea of tagging things "single song", "full album" and "spoken". (if i could be asked)

I decided to do it a long time ago -- so I spent a night or two making sure my (much smaller then) library was properly tagged. Now I only have to sort out new additions, and they're easy to spot because the wrong genres stand out.

if the aperture thingie is that good, do you think the concept could be applied to music?
I don't think it would work especially well for music -- it's about keeping 20 images shot a second apart in one stack, and adding new versions you make of images in the same stack. It's great for editing and processing, but for a ream of separate things like songs it wouldn't be useful.

is there a proper "turn off" command? or do you mean just avoiding that view? (which is what i'm doing on the other mac.)

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It's something that the classical music fans have been wanting for years

I know, I know, but how am I supposed to fit all this Justin Timberlake??

i wish i had bought more ram at the outset :(

Heheh, yes. (I forgot to mention that the credit union is the teachers' one here in OC, with an office handily on the campus. And since I do work for a university...)

i wish i had bought more ram at the outset :(

I'm fine with the 1 GB now but we'll see what the future brings.