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On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 14:02 -0500, Peter da Silva wrote: > Hmmm. I use "cp -pR" to copy my iTunes Music Library to my USB hard drive > to take it to work. I have even used "find ... | grep -l" to generate an m3u > file for a share. I have two powerbooks, two ipods, and multiple Unix machines, all of which I want to have the same music on. However, my wife and I make our own playlists. I want to be able to sync everything in a way that all of the information is available everywhere, including the playlists that each of make. Yes, I'm fully aware that I could manually do that somehow, by parsing the XML files and rewriting them as .m3u files or whatever, but of course that won't work for automatic lists (which is fine, I guess), and I just shudder at the idea of what would happen if I somehow did something iTunes didn't like to its library -- I have already had to rebuild my whole library, including all playlists because I moved the library, opened iTunes, and moved it back. No idea what went wrong, but I never got it to understand its configuration again, so I had to rebuild it from scratch. Not exactly encouraging that it'll be easy to write sync stuff. It doesn't help that Apple seems to despise the mere idea of you syncing in a way they don't approve, or with devices you didn't buy from them. Those guys are dicks sometimes -- I'm pissed that all this extra functionality is being added to .Mac, but if I just want to sync two accounts on two Macs, I have to have a stupid .Mac account. WTF? > > I want all of my applications to be turned inside out; rather than there > > being a hard shell around all of the functionality, with some limited > > exposure to that functionality from the outside, I want the whole app to > > be available from the outside, including the ability to swap pieces in > > and out according to whim. > > I guess we have different ideas of what this means, because Mac OS seems > to be better about this than just about any environment I've used. I mean, > I can do stuff to GUI apps on OS X that require source code to do on anything > else, whether through Applescript, through the files in the Appdir, or just > editing their defaults databases... and while it's nice to have source it > sure makes Applescripting look friendly. > > The opacity of GUI apps on EVERY OTHER OS has been a burning hate for me for > years. Mac OS X is like Maalox for my geek soul. Heh, I didn't mean to imply that other people did this well, just that 1) OS X still does it poorly, and 2) Apple is generally retardly protective and hates you touching their stuff. > > I do know why this isn't possible, though: because it gives _me_ > > control of the app, instead of Steve-o, which doesn't fit with his > > megalomaniacal world model. Thank God Apple is still a niche player -- > > if they ever got to be as big as Microsoft, I'm convinced they would be > > 10x worse. > > That may be true, but that doesn't mean they haven't done a good job here. > > But then I'm weird, I find good things in every OS, even ones that drive me > to despite and despair, so maybe I'm a soft touch. You're right: that is weird. ;) -- We either are networking, or we areNT networking... --------------------------------------------------------------------- Luke Kanies | http://reductivelabs.com | http://config.sage.orgThere's stuff above here
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