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> I don't know why MP3 players and audio are so hard; I really don't. I do. It's because audio cards aren't just dumb buffered D/A converters, they've got half a dozen legacy interfaces from the old days when you had to shove everything in through a 16-64k window, plus MIDI players from the old days when PCs were singletasking and games took over the machine and the serial port MIDI player connection was the only thing they could depend on, plus thirty dozen plain and fancy incompatible equalizer interfaces, and a joystick port, and now half these things are implemented in the Windows driver in a different way for each card. And MP3 players are hard because the skinnable interface is more important than actually making it work well. XMMS used to drive me insane on a regular basis just for existing. > All OSes, because they basically all lack this feature? CoreAudio seems pretty solid, but it doesn't have to deal with any of the Wintel legacy audio crap listed above. > Why do the damn operating systems expect me to know how everything > works? I want music played through my computer, and I want hotkeys that > allow me to quickly pause or fast-forward, and I want some mechanism for > managing my music. I frankly don't care how this is done, but I > categorically don't want to spend 5 hours a month just making sure it > all fucking works. You are SO ready for a Mac.
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