tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961660238450693245.post8336522004613579735..comments2024-02-13T03:59:13.635+00:00Comments on Eat Electric Death: iTunes [drdave]Slimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02020308502156946280noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961660238450693245.post-61959996563655242132005-02-21T01:10:00.000+00:002005-02-21T01:10:00.000+00:00iTunes is the best. makes everything easy. and win...iTunes is the best. makes everything easy. and winamp is so slow.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961660238450693245.post-67899165125188033402003-10-30T13:00:00.010+00:002003-10-30T13:00:00.010+00:00ephPod is quite good Dave, well worth a look for m...ephPod is quite good Dave, well worth a look for managing the songs on your ipod.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961660238450693245.post-30487959330061965722003-10-30T13:00:00.009+00:002003-10-30T13:00:00.009+00:00Apparently Mac owners have a patch that lets them ...Apparently Mac owners have a patch that lets them share over the net (rather than just your LAN). Its not clear if this shares the list or just lets you stream.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961660238450693245.post-5362714016281208292003-10-30T13:00:00.008+00:002003-10-30T13:00:00.008+00:00Netjuke owns it really. It's staying on Wench thou...Netjuke owns it really. It's staying on Wench though because the folks upstairs have a Mac and like to burn off shit from the collection to CD.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961660238450693245.post-58645166733251992752003-10-30T13:00:00.007+00:002003-10-30T13:00:00.007+00:00Quite frankly all I care about is whether or not i...Quite frankly all I care about is whether or not it rocks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961660238450693245.post-66193699081190542992003-10-30T13:00:00.006+00:002003-10-30T13:00:00.006+00:00Oh yeah sure, its not for everyone. Definitely not...Oh yeah sure, its not for everyone. Definitely not, and its not perfect either. It just stands up remarkably well against every other library app I've tried, including Winamp 2.91 (which I found to be too small and fiddly). I also had my MP3 dir as a shortcut on my taskbar, like Spiney I guess. And it worked really well until my collection became so big that the lame Windows UI handling of large Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961660238450693245.post-31798424806205385542003-10-30T13:00:00.005+00:002003-10-30T13:00:00.005+00:00The media library in Winamp 2.91 works great for m...The media library in Winamp 2.91 works great for me. Most of all it starts up real fast and I've got my mp3s off my start menu 'my music' folder. What could be easier than that?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961660238450693245.post-75622515484210934002003-10-30T13:00:00.004+00:002003-10-30T13:00:00.004+00:00Personally I've also gone back to Winamp already a...Personally I've also gone back to Winamp already as iTunes really does nothing useful for me that the Albumlist plugin doesn't already do.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961660238450693245.post-87949452813337595302003-10-30T13:00:00.003+00:002003-10-30T13:00:00.003+00:00I wanted to like iTunes. I really did. But less th...I wanted to like iTunes. I really did. But less than a day after installing it, I'm using Winamp 2.8 again and iTunes sits unwanted and gathering dust in my Program Files folder.<br>It's not a bad app; it's quite clever actually. But it was woefully inadequate in the same way that so many applications like this are woefully inadequate - namely that it doesn't give ANY credence to your directory Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961660238450693245.post-71797676240957064742003-10-30T13:00:00.002+00:002003-10-30T13:00:00.002+00:00it must also be said that eMusic still offer the '...it must also be said that eMusic still offer the 'rogueish freedom' that they did before and the RIAA has fuck all to do with it. They're just charging silly money for it and they can't convince publishers to climb on board without the silly money and, possibly, the lack of DRM too.<br>It's a ludicrous situation, you're far better off buying a CD and then you can do your own encoding from a Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961660238450693245.post-24746318396612370702003-10-30T13:00:00.001+00:002003-10-30T13:00:00.001+00:00It's the right attitude, but he's not even close i...It's the right attitude, but he's not even close in practice. $0.99 a song, which is as much as a cd for an average album, yet more restricted than a cd with the DRM shit. I can play a cd in any cd player, I can only play itune songs on 3 macs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961660238450693245.post-67563554294860470422003-10-30T13:00:00.000+00:002003-10-30T13:00:00.000+00:00Have to say, I'm quite impressed with the directio...Have to say, I'm quite impressed with the direction these lot have taken.<br>Great quote from Jobs at the iTunes for Windows launch: <i>'We're going to fight illegal downloading by competing with it,'</i> said Jobs. <i>'We're not going to sue it. We're not going to ignore it. We're going to compete with it.'</i>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com