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On 25/02/04 20:18 +0100, John Sinteur wrote: > What continues to get under my skin with iTunes is that, despite the > fact that is already knows which albums tracks belong to, it doesn't > give you automatic playlists based on that kind of stuff. Just like > iPhoto has all kind of albums automatically (mostly based on stuff you > don't need, like the year you took a picture in - but then again, a > picture has less meta info than a album track) What always got me about iTunes (warning: blissfully released from the Apple "bodysnatchers"-style thrall thanks to kindly neighbourhood burglar scum) was that it couldn't *actually*, *reliably* play mp3s without skipping. I mean, hey, maybe that was my fault for trying to run iTunes on an "officially supported, but low-end" G3 iBook. But it was still shit. It's *playing mp3s*, goddammit. I've managed to get a 100mhz pentium2 to play mp3s reliably. Skip the "shiny" (read "shit, looks like tarnished concrete") interface crap, and just play the goddamn music in the background whilst I get on with writing/coding/photoshopping/ whatever. Oh, an a vaguely unrelated rant - if I ever find another bloody .DS_Store file in an mp3 directory which a mac user has left on a communal nfs/smb/afp shared directory, I shall kill them and dance on their grave. Not because I particularly enjoy dancing on graves, but because I will have placed their mac hardware on the "dancefloor" before I commence my jig-o-death. Apple should return to what they're really good at, which is dying quietly in the corner of the computer industry whilst players like Microsoft laugh and buy them out of trouble just to prolong the agony. Only this time, I pray to $deity, there will be no buyers.There's stuff above here
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