who else get’s annoyed with itunes?
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Topic: who else get’s annoyed with itunes?
Posted By: acheron
Subject: who else get’s annoyed with itunes?
Date Posted: November 15 2005 at 18:39
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does it really annoy anyone else that there's pauses between tracks in itunes? i mean when listening to "Dark Side of the Moon" or "Fragile" or "Scenes from a Memory" who wants a pause between the songs? am i right people? |
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Posted By: lunaticviolist
Date Posted: November 15 2005 at 18:42
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Get Winamp, and go to the winamp website and download a plug-in called mp3 splice or something: http://www.winamp.com - www.winamp.com Here's a gap killer plug-in: http://www.winamp.com/plugins/details.php?id=112588 - http://www.winamp.com/plugins/details.php?id=112588 If that doesn't work, try this one: http://www.winamp.com/plugins/details.php?id=107818 - http://www.winamp.com/plugins/details.php?id=107818 Does anyone know any similar plug-ins for i-tunes? ------------- My recent purchases: 
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Posted By: prog4evr
Date Posted: June 24 2007 at 07:19
| I am annoyed with the whole iPod Shuffle package. iTunes is the least user-friendly mp3 playing software out there IMO, and you never know what tune is playing or coming next on the shuffle, unlike the regular thumb-drive size mp3 player for 1/3 the price! Yeah, you could say I really hate the ***king software and hardware to go with it! |
Posted By: Paradox
Date Posted: June 24 2007 at 09:45
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Seeings as this thread is pushing two years old now, I assume you were using a now old version of iTunes at the time of writing. In the latest version (7.2 I believe?), simply highlight the tracks you wish to remove the playback gaps from, right click and select 'Get Info'. Then in the drop down box entitled 'Gapless Album' select Yes, click the arrow to apply these changes, and problem (hopefully) solved. You've probably already figured this out a long time ago but oh well. ------------- 
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Posted By: purplepiper
Date Posted: July 25 2007 at 00:14
I had itunes on my computer, but It got erased somehow and I can't make it successfully download! Frustruating! How am I suppossed to create the perfect prog playlist for my ipod now? ------------- for those about to prog, we salute you. |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: July 25 2007 at 00:17
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I definitely have issues with it
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: July 25 2007 at 20:26
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The biggest complaint I have with iTunes is that I cannot control where it stores files.
Sure, I can tell it to save the mp3's to any location on my PC - but it still keeps its internal files, the index-database and all the album-cover images in My Documents.
Which does me no favours as my laptop is synchronised with my work desktop PC via a VPN network, so I have one My Documents shared between two PC's. Now my laptop goes looking for the mp3 tracks on a disc it doesn't have - and then updates the index because it cannot find them. So when I go back to the desktop the updated index no longer has the tracks in its dbase so I cannot play them there either.
Come the revolution both Steve Jobs and Bill Gates will be amoung the first to the wall.  ------------- What? |
Posted By: bhikkhu
Date Posted: July 25 2007 at 20:32
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I don't have any of those problems. Works like a dream for me.
Maybe you all need to get Macs.  ------------- a.k.a. H.T. http://riekels.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow - http://riekels.wordpress.com |
Posted By: magnus
Date Posted: July 27 2007 at 13:10
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I don't get annoyed with iTunes... ...Because I use foobar2000 instead, a MUCH better player <3 ------------- The scattered jigsaw of my redemption laid out before my eyes Each piece as amorphous as the other - Each piece in its lack of shape a lie 
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Posted By: thellama73
Date Posted: July 27 2007 at 13:16
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the only problem I have with iTunes is that I have to tell it to stop after an album finishes, or elsse it keeps playing through my entire library. So if I' m lying in bed listening to music. I have to get up and walk over to my computer rather than just go to sleep. The only way to get around this as far as I can tell is to make seperate playlists for every album you own, but that's unrealistic. ------------- 
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: July 27 2007 at 13:29
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^ erm, iTunes can play seperate albums without running-on. Just click on the album in the Albums column of the Music Browser. ------------- What? |
Posted By: Paradox
Date Posted: August 02 2007 at 17:59
Yes that annoys me too. I only hope with future editions of iTunes that this problem is sorted out. I'm not hopeful though... -------------
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darqdean wrote:Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: August 02 2007 at 18:09
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I don't know if my problem is with ITunes, or if it is with McAfee virus protection, but each song as it plays gets interrrupted/distorted about 8-10 seconds in. Otherwise it plays fine. I think that it might be the McAfee checking the song for a virus or something which causes the song to become distorted. Has anybody else had this problem? Any suggestions? ------------- 
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Posted By: KoS
Date Posted: August 02 2007 at 18:11
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itunes is annoying by definition. Come to think of it, everything Apple makes is annoying especially their marketing. Elitist f**ks. |
Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: August 02 2007 at 18:26
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Use Winamp,it's a far superior and much more user friendly player. -------------  |
Posted By: andu
Date Posted: August 03 2007 at 10:23
Finally, another foobar user! Yay!  ------------- "PA's own GI Joe!" 
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Posted By: mrcozdude
Date Posted: August 05 2007 at 04:24
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I just have problems with itunes and my ipod like every1 else lol it cant detect my ipod so i cant put my mr bungle tull and john zorn albums on there insert sympathy here ....
P.s woo! im a groupie now ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/cozfunkel/" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Man Erg
Date Posted: August 05 2007 at 04:37
...and another Foobar user. Excellent player etc.It's very well organised. 
http://www.foobar2000.org/ ------------- 
Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb. |
Posted By: purplepiper
Date Posted: August 07 2007 at 19:19
they are marketing nazis! I always get annoyed with marketing of any kind, especially when it shows up everywhere! ------------- for those about to prog, we salute you. |
Posted By: Easy Livin
Date Posted: August 08 2007 at 03:57
| Watch the language please guys. There are some offensive terms cropping up. |
Posted By: The Whistler
Date Posted: August 08 2007 at 04:05
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Yeah! Stoopid iTunes! I delete Quicktime, and suddenly it's MY fault that the mp3 player thingy don't work no more! ------------- "There seem to be quite a large percentage of young American boys out there tonight. A long way from home, eh? Well so are we... Gotta stick together." -I. Anderson |
Posted By: bhikkhu
Date Posted: August 08 2007 at 11:43
Have you tried resetting it? Go to the apple support site. There are many helpful suggestions there. ------------- a.k.a. H.T. http://riekels.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow - http://riekels.wordpress.com |
Posted By: Shakespeare
Date Posted: August 23 2007 at 19:37
You can redirect the files elsewhere, just go to Edit--->Preferences-->Advanced and uncheck "Keep my iTunes folder organized" and it will just read the files from where they are right then. Easy. iTunes is a genius program, I've never had a single issue with it - on both the PC and the Mac. |
Posted By: Shakespeare
Date Posted: August 23 2007 at 19:38
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Posted By: Shakespeare
Date Posted: August 23 2007 at 19:41
Have you honestly tried any of the new, high-end, Mac software/hardware? It is infinitely simpler than PCs. |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: August 23 2007 at 19:55
Yeah, well done. You missed-off this bit of my post...
...where I explained that I knew that.
Yes on a single user, totally issolated PC or Mac it is a good program, if a little clumbersome and quirky.
But on a networked Laptop PC that is used on several different networks in several different locations it is a *very*bad*thing* - iTunes does not cater for a single user having an account synchronised on different PC's - it overwrites the iTunes database and hence wipes out the entire library on all but one of the PC's for that user. ------------- What? |
Posted By: Shakespeare
Date Posted: August 23 2007 at 20:01
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Woops, guess I did. I've never had a problem anything like that...When I had my upstairs and downstairs computers networked, it worked fine. I selected "Copy files to iTunes folder when adding to library" on one of them, and it simply copied all the songs from the basement computer onto the upstairs one without incident. And why would you care if iTunes keeps the artwork in My Documents? |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: August 23 2007 at 20:09
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Because on the network I have to use for Work the My Documents is shared between many PC's. So if I have iTunes on two of them for example, then the album artwork for one will overwrite the other - which is not that important. But what is important is the database index file that tells iTunes where all the song-files are is also overwritten, which effectively wipes out the whole database onthe 2nd machine. ------------- What? |
Posted By: andu
Date Posted: August 23 2007 at 20:10
Well there are some disadvantages in keeping it basic, you know  ------------- "PA's own GI Joe!"
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Posted By: Shakespeare
Date Posted: August 23 2007 at 20:16
(In addition to being way more user-friendly, and having loads more interesting programs. Not to mention no viruses whatsoever.) |
Posted By: Shakespeare
Date Posted: August 23 2007 at 20:17
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Posted By: andu
Date Posted: August 23 2007 at 20:18
I didn't put words in your mouth, it's me who says the MAC is too basic for my "tastes" in some aspects (which is not a general negative evaluation, just an observation). ------------- "PA's own GI Joe!"
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Posted By: Shakespeare
Date Posted: August 23 2007 at 20:20
| Really? I don't find Macs basic at all. |
Posted By: andu
Date Posted: August 23 2007 at 20:31
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Well I didn't say "Mac is basic" either. I said is basic in some aspects. I didn't say those are fundamental aspects, just that they're important for me. ------------- "PA's own GI Joe!"
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Posted By: Shakespeare
Date Posted: August 23 2007 at 21:44
| Gotchya |
Posted By: Dim
Date Posted: August 23 2007 at 21:47
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I have always stayed away from iTunes, though I would like an ipod, itunes messes up and implodes on itself quite often. I'm a Windows media player kinda guy anyways! ------------- 
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Posted By: Shakespeare
Date Posted: August 23 2007 at 22:16
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Fact: Don't kid yourself, Schizoid, that never happens. Opinion: Media Player SUCKS! |
Posted By: T.Rox
Date Posted: August 26 2007 at 10:15
Ditto  ------------- "Without prog, life would be a mistake." ...with apologies to Friedrich Nietzsche |
Posted By: N Ellingworth
Date Posted: August 26 2007 at 10:29
I've never used iTunes myself but my brother has an iPod and gets nothing but grief from iTunes so it does happen. As for Media Player the latest version ('11'/ 'for Vista' depending on your OS) is a very good piece of software it makes organizing my library of mp3s very easy and burning CD copies of downloaded albums really easy too. It also serves as a very good DVD player. Personally I don't see any reason to not use it at the moment. |
Posted By: E-Dub
Date Posted: August 26 2007 at 10:33
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The only thing that drives me nuts is if you want to load in the album's artwork and it's not in the iTunes store's database, it'll replace it with something of a slightly similar name. For example, for the very first Saga album it's got the artwork by some female rap artist named Saga. Or Kino's Picture has some folk dude with the last name of King. Morons. E ------------- 
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Posted By: bhikkhu
Date Posted: August 26 2007 at 10:51
Automatic features like that never work 100%, but when it does, it's a good quality picture. It's really not that difficult to find artwork and add it yourself. ------------- a.k.a. H.T. http://riekels.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow - http://riekels.wordpress.com |
Posted By: Shakespeare
Date Posted: August 27 2007 at 10:28
| I don't buy music from iTunes, so it doesn't do that automatically for me. But still, I have a fun time looking through the google turnout, and choosing which one I like best. |
Posted By: E-Dub
Date Posted: August 28 2007 at 16:39
HT, is there a way to load the artwork in yourself through iTunes? I've done some searching and can't find any way to do it. Cracks me up how they have just about every major Marillion album cover EXCEPT for Misplaced Childhood! E -------------
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Posted By: Shakespeare
Date Posted: August 28 2007 at 16:55
| E-Dub, you do realize that if you hit the upward arrow in a box (in the bottom left section) then the artwork pops up in the bottom left of the screen? Are you? Well, if you don't have image at the moment, it is blank and says "Drank Album art Here". You can either drag a picture into that box, or you can right click on the song, go to "Get info" click the "Artwork" tab, and add a picture from your photos. |
Posted By: rileydog22
Date Posted: August 29 2007 at 00:08
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I can't say I've ever used WMA or Foobar or anything else very much, but I can say that I've been using iTunes for a few years now and it's never given ME any sh*t.
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Posted By: Shakespeare
Date Posted: August 31 2007 at 18:26
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Testify, brotha. - The Bard |
Posted By: Trademark
Date Posted: August 31 2007 at 22:58
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A simpler way of replacing or adding artwork in itunes. Select the songs you want to add artwork for. under the file menu choose "get Info". when the info window opens simply drag the new artwork into the box and click OK. This way you can do whole albums at once rather than one song at a time.
You can also add comments, alter genre descriptions, change groupings, correct spelling errors etc. in all the other information for those songs you have selected. I've got over 26,000 songs in my itunes library and I use the Get Info menu extensively to keep things organized. |
Posted By: Shakespeare
Date Posted: September 01 2007 at 10:20
| YOu don't even have to go into the "Get info" menu. If you highlight a song, and then click on the area you wish to alter (the name, the album, genre, et cetera) you will be able to edit the text that way. Also, you don't have to go into "Get info" to add artwork, you can simply drag it into the box in the bottom left of the screen. |
Posted By: bhikkhu
Date Posted: September 01 2007 at 15:02
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Or, for a whole album, you highlight the album title in the browser, click get info, and drag the picture to the artwork square. It will put the picture on all the songs for that album. ------------- a.k.a. H.T. http://riekels.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow - http://riekels.wordpress.com |
Posted By: goose
Date Posted: September 02 2007 at 11:35
| I installed iTunes for about half an hour, but I am no longer annoyed with it because i use Quod Libet (and formerly foobar2000, when I had Windows.) |
Posted By: Shakespeare
Date Posted: September 03 2007 at 09:45
| iTunes pwns!!! Geez... |
Posted By: activetopics
Date Posted: September 06 2007 at 21:39
Yea but maybe we're not all as rich as you. |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: September 07 2007 at 09:35
 I get annoyed with the way so many people randomly use apostrophes with plurals and words ending in "S," but maybe that's just me....
 Seriously, English speakers go through years of education, graduate high school, and still don't have a fewking CLUE about the correct use of apostrophes! Why I outta...BLAM!
 That's better....
kind of....  ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: September 07 2007 at 09:42
 So, is that "get is" or "belonging to, or of, get?"
Get's a nice word.
That's Get's house.
C'est what?  ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: kazansky
Date Posted: September 07 2007 at 09:43
^ maybe you're just TOO sensitive  ------------- The devil we blame our atrocities on is really just each one of us. |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: September 07 2007 at 09:53
 They've made a monster out of me -- curse you, books and education! (Or should that be BOOK'S?)
 Seriously, that thread title has been DRIVING ME MAD for weeks!
What is the big mystery about apostrophes -- and why do people go all the way through school, and STILL not understand them?
...and don't get me started on "alot!" ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: kazansky
Date Posted: September 07 2007 at 10:00
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actually i didn't really realized the whole thing untill you brought that up, it looks alright in a glimpse ------------- The devil we blame our atrocities on is really just each one of us. |
Posted By: bhikkhu
Date Posted: September 07 2007 at 10:12
Bugs me too, just like improper speech. It's a mystery how people who grew up a mile away from me can say things like, "I ain't got none." But I also know that typos are often the culprit here. As much as I stress proper grammar, my fingers betray me quiet often. ------------- a.k.a. H.T. http://riekels.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow - http://riekels.wordpress.com |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: September 07 2007 at 10:47
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I think Peter is too sensitive also, but I think that I have seen somewhere that he is a teacher, so it his job to be sensitive towards these things. However, I also agree with him and I think that people should take more pride in their work and what and how they are typing/saying here.
I know that In my case I try to use proper spelling and punctuation but sometimes it is hard to remember the various rules that, in some cases, I was taught twenty years ago.
As far as apostrophes go, I prefer Frank Zappa.
 As to his alot, I know that that it one of the rules I don't remember very well. A lot or alot. My biggest hang up is the "then" versus "than" usage. I have been trying to figure this one out for years but still can't get a handle on it.
My biggest foul-up that I am aware of is the "their", "there" and "they're" usage. I know the proper usage of these words, however, my fingers tend to type the wrong one more often than (or is it then?) not.
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: September 07 2007 at 10:51
I think the problem is that the use of apostrophes was never properly explained at school in the first place. It was either taught when the children were too young to appreciate the difference and then never reitterated later when they were old enough or never really taught at all.
This is then componded by people not explaining why the use of an itinerant apostrophe is wrong in the given context -in this instance Peter did, but all to often the culprit is slapped down with no explanation.
Your and you're and there, their and they're are other homonyms frequently crop up in informal correspondance such as this forum, but to be fair to the posters, this is rarely due to ignorance, just speed. Also the similarity to the forum to coloquial chat implies that adhering to strict gramatical rules is not that necessary... after all, there are no apostrophes in speech. Since their misuse does not affect the understandabilty of the text, (as the human brain is perfectly capable of filtering out the nonsensical meanings from the one the poster was trying to convey), I don't think it is that big an issue.
I can remember a time when to flipantly use a split infinitive was a gramatical faux-pas. ------------- What? |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: September 07 2007 at 21:57
"A lot" is always two words, just like "a few," "a bunch" "a group" "a multitude" or even "a car" or "a guitar" are all two-word constructions. There is no such word as "alot."Re the confusion between THEN vs THAN: This is another very common problem. Think of "then" as being connected to time, sequence, as in:
I woke up, then went downstairs for breakfast.
Here's how you can remember that: I bet you know how to spell "when," another word having to do with time.
Now: notice that both words have "HEN" in them, and remember this sentence:
I will buy a HEN, and THEN we'll have eggs WHEN we wake.
THAN is used for comparing & contrasting: I like Stan better than Dan.
Understand?  ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
) not.Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: September 07 2007 at 21:59
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you're a peach, Peter
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Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: September 07 2007 at 22:07
I know about typos, of course (I am a terrible typist), but in this case, the apostrophe key is nowhere near the T or the S of "gets" -- the apostrophe was added quite deliberately, and incorrectly.
I see incorrect apostrophe usage everywhere -- even in expensive advertising. I think writing and spelling abilities are declining, and I put a large part of the blame on the Internet (email, chat, "webspeak," etc.), and television (people are reading less).
Anyway, that's enough of this! I had my rant, and feel better now.
 I don't want to be "at work" when I'm on here, as well. (I usually ignore these types of errors -- for my own sanity, and everyone else's!) ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: September 07 2007 at 22:19
Thanks, Ata-boy.
Now it's time to play some good old mindless Red Alert 2!  ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: The Wizard
Date Posted: September 07 2007 at 22:25
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Me. Itunes pisses me off, it makes me love Window's Media Player. The only thing I don't like about Ipods is Itunes. -------------  
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Posted By: rileydog22
Date Posted: September 07 2007 at 22:48
You nee'd 'to chi'll out'. ------------- |
Posted By: BroSpence
Date Posted: September 07 2007 at 22:49
| Itunes is an ass blower. It sucks in storefront, playfront, allfront. Itunes is the devil. Lets purchase sh*tty sounding sound files! WOOOWEEEEEE ITUneS. Wait wait....that would be crazy! EVEN IF IT IS ONLY A BUCK A SONG! |
Posted By: rileydog22
Date Posted: September 07 2007 at 22:52
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You do realize that you don't have to purchase music through it, right?
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Posted By: 1800iareyay
Date Posted: September 07 2007 at 22:53
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I may not be a hi-fi nut, but I really don't think the songs on iTunes are low quality. However, I have noticed the sound quality improving, and I've read articles on mp3s preserving more quality, so even if the songs used to sound bad they are better now. iTunes can be annoying, but the music itself is great and it makes finding some hard to get stuff very easy. I'd rather sacrifice a tiny amount of sound quality than carry around 800 CDs (400 of which I've either gotten from iTunes or other legal download services). Long live the iPod |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: September 08 2007 at 02:49
Why should anyone use iTunes if not for purchasing music? There are many programs which you can use to organize your music library, all better than iTunes (IMO). The only reason I can think of for using it is if you purchased an iPod and thus bound yourself to Apple. ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/users/Mike" rel="nofollow">Recently listened to: 
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: September 08 2007 at 06:11
There are alternatives to iTunes for managing the iPlod, but they all have failings in someway or other. I use iTunes because I have an iPlod, but I've never linked it to iStore so have never purchased music using it - Apple have had enough of my money as it is and I'm not giving them any more . In retrospect I would never have bought an iPlod if I had used one first, but I love its iconic styling even if it is the most unreliable lump of hardware I've ever encountered.------------- What? |
Posted By: andu
Date Posted: September 08 2007 at 06:22
AAhh, another Red Alert 2 fan!  I thought I was the only one left in the whole world! ------------- "PA's own GI Joe!"
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Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: September 11 2007 at 16:52
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I will not even consider I-tunes until I can browse without having to give all my personal info. Its like walking into a record store and having to sign in with name address and phone number before shopping. All I want to do is look around to see if the selection is any good. ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow">  https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: September 11 2007 at 16:57
d0nt b hayt|N 0 leet hax0R wil pwn u ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow"> https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: Shakespeare
Date Posted: September 11 2007 at 21:42
But wHyyyyy?!?! iTunes is lightyears ahead of Media Player. |
Posted By: bhikkhu
Date Posted: September 11 2007 at 23:43
No kidding. I haven't used WMP (or windows for that matter) for quite a while. Not took long ago, I was helping my Step-Mother get her new mp3 player loaded up. It takes so much more time to do things, I almost went out and bought her Mac.
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Posted By: darkmatter
Date Posted: September 11 2007 at 23:44
| I don't have any problems with iTunes, I think it has a pretty simple interface and it's easy to use. |
Posted By: KoS
Date Posted: September 11 2007 at 23:57
I only use Itunes to download to my Ipod. |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: September 12 2007 at 00:08
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I've tried bunches of media players. I use Windows primarily to play stuff on my computer. (My whole CD collection has been converted by me for portability, that in and of itself is way cool over 3000 titles and no I don't sell or "share" copies.)
The latest version of WMP is reasonably cool as far as search capabilities and album art display. Still a little buggy. I've tried itunes as a media player and wasn't impressed, probably didn't work with it enough to judge it. I've done Real Player and it's ok. The most dissapointing program is the one I use with my current digital music player, the Toshiba Gigabeat. It's been more reliable than my last player, but leaves a lot to be desired. The device's main goody is the 40 GB capacity. The software is the most buggy I've ever worked with though. Don't know if they are still for sale, but it would be hard to give it a really positive recommendation. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: September 12 2007 at 16:12
I use the Gigabeat too. If yours is the F40, I recommend http://www.rockbox.org - Rockbox firmware (free, open source!). Playlists are alot nicer and it has a crossfader. Supposedly the Gigabeat can sync with WMP as long as you use the dock with the AC adapter. I still havn't got that to work. But its still the most bang for the buck from a 40gb player. ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow"> https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: Shakespeare
Date Posted: September 16 2007 at 13:57
Enough said?!?!?!?! I hate those two words.  |
Posted By: rileydog22
Date Posted: September 16 2007 at 22:25
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Is there any program that will be able to accept my current iTunes library? I'd love to try a new program, but I'm tied to iTunes by 54 gigabytes of music that would literally take weeks to add to another program.
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Posted By: goose
Date Posted: September 17 2007 at 03:36
Weeks? I can add 100GB in a few minutes. Try something else, I'm pretty sure it will be a lot faster at cataloguing than iTunes. |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: September 17 2007 at 04:50
You should have thought about that before selling your soul to Steve iJobs ... Kidding aside: If your music is mp3 then you can simply install Winamp (my recommendation) or any other music player and simply add the folder to the library. It will take a few moments, but if it's all properly tagged I don't see a problem. ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/users/Mike" rel="nofollow">Recently listened to:
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: September 17 2007 at 04:54
I think you may be exagerating just a smidgen - just copying 100GB will take more than a few minutes (more like 2-3 hours) - re-adding the CD's manually would take weeks.
The "problem" with iTunes is that with the default settings it does not store the music files in an easily transferable form, so it is only possible to move the library to another player after a lot of effort.
/edit: sorry Mike, didn't see your post: iToons does not use mp3 as a default, nor does it store tracks by album or artist, but by some random method known only to iApple. I have changed my default settings so they are, but most users will be using it with the out-of-the-box settings. ------------- What? |
Posted By: kazansky
Date Posted: September 17 2007 at 04:59
i don't if it's the problem with itunes or ipod, but sometimes after connecting to itunes a few tracks on my ipod got scrambled (the track listing in an album)... ------------- The devil we blame our atrocities on is really just each one of us. |
Posted By: bhikkhu
Date Posted: September 17 2007 at 08:47
That's a labeling problem. All the tracks on an album must be labeled in the same way. If one tack has something listed in the "Album Artist" column, and all the others have that selection blank, it will not order correctly. An easy fix is to select the album title, click on get info, and fill in all the blanks with the correct information. Make sure you click the boxes next to the ones that should be blank. If the artwork is fine on all tracks, just leave that box alone. ------------- a.k.a. H.T. http://riekels.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow - http://riekels.wordpress.com |
Posted By: goose
Date Posted: September 17 2007 at 14:51
Ah sorry, I misunderstood. In my thoughts adding songs to a library would just be a matter of reading their tags and storing a database of where they all are (like Quod Libet, foobar2000, Winamp, WMP etc. etc!) I didn't realise iTunes would make it more complicated for no reason! |
Posted By: Leningrad
Date Posted: September 21 2007 at 22:08
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My iTunes no longer recognizes CDs like it used to. Now I end up replacing the names and info manually, extremely tedious with many songs.
Anyone know a solution?
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Posted By: Shakespeare
Date Posted: September 24 2007 at 21:27
I know exactly what is wrong, my fellow Magma-nite. If it is not a burned CD (which are often not recognized), then you are not connected to the internet when you insert he Cd. If that isn't the case, then i seriously doubt it is iTunes to blame, but your internet connection and how it isn't properly speaking to your 'Tunes. Today, with the new update of iTunes, I was frustrated with my beloved program for the first time. Now you can rate albums on iTUnes (not just songs) which, in theory, is a good idea. The only problem is that it guesses what you're going to rate the album by getting the average of your songs, which annoys me. Secondly, after rating an album, it guesses that all unrated songs on it will be the same rating as your initial rating. When it "guesses" the rating, the stars are all hollow, whereas when you actually rate it, they are filled. However, songs that are "guessed" to be 4 or 5 stars (again, the guess is judged by the album's rating) show up in the "top rated" smart playlist, which means my playlist which used to be only so long, is now SOOOO long. Grrr. |
Posted By: Leningrad
Date Posted: September 26 2007 at 09:40
| I don't even bother rating songs. If I rated one, I'd have to rate them all, which would be a serious pain. |
Posted By: Shakespeare
Date Posted: September 26 2007 at 17:46
| It started when I just rated my favourites (so just 5 stars) but then the "Top Rated" playlist was rather empty so I went and did some 4s, and then it got out of hand, and now a good portion of the songs I listen to most are rated. |
Posted By: cynthiasmallet
Date Posted: October 17 2007 at 13:43
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iTunes is rather annoying, but my Genesis collection looks so pretty on Juke Box mode.... ------------- Would you like to watch TV, or get between the sheets, or contemplate the silent freeway, would you like something to eat? |
Posted By: Shakespeare
Date Posted: November 08 2007 at 16:57
Yeah I thought I had the answer. I said "Just connect your internet" but now I'm starting to get the same problem with a select few CDs I'm adding to my Mac. Three out of 20 CD came up a "Audio CD" by "Artist" and all songs were "Track 1" and "Track 2" and so on. Anyone know why? Any intelligent guesses? |
Posted By: rileydog22
Date Posted: November 11 2007 at 20:12
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That can happen when the CD is too obscure to be in the CD database iTunes uses. It can also happen if you happen to not be connected to the interwebz at the time you insert the CD.
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