Re: iTunes on Windows

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From: Stephen Deken
Subject: Re: iTunes on Windows
Date: 16:08 on 03 Oct 2006
> 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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