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> s/use/try out to see what all the fuss is about now I'm being forced to > use Windows/ Ah, that I can understand. I'd steer clear of it on the Windows side though, unless you need the iPod+iTMS folderol. While it did start out as a music player on the Mac side, it's always been integrated with iPod+iTMS on the Windows side. (Original release date for Windows: October 16th, 2003.) > Yes, odd that I should try and use a music player to play music. > I am a little weird like that. There are better music players for Windows. (For that matter, if all you want to do is *play* music, there are better music players for the Mac as well.) There's gobs of them here and there. I'm still partial to WinAmp 2. > Which bit are you disagreeing with? I don't particularly like the > library management. I imagine some people do and that's cool. I was > vaguely surprised that it didn't have an interface like the iPods which > I would have liked. But that's a preference thing. I was really confused by this until I realized that by 'forced to use Windows' you were trying to indicate that you were coming from some Unix variant instead of coming from the Mac. What did you previously use to manage your library? I'm sure there's a Windows port out there somewhere. The big hubbub about iTunes these days is that it makes it really easy to puchase music legally and get it on to an iPod. If those don't matter to you, it's probably not worth the effort to hack at it to make it tolerable. > Are you disagreeing that the autocomplete sucks? In which case you might > be in a minority. No, that complaint is fully valid. That version of autocomplete is braindead and ought to be taken out back and shot, and then shot again for good measure. I seem to recall that Windows itself once had a similar problem when using 'short' (8.3) filenames -- if you tried to change the case of the filename, it would disappear when you confirmed it. You had to change the filename to something different or something longer, and then change it back. Hate. --sjd;There's stuff above here
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