Re: iTunes on Windows

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From: Ricardo SIGNES
Subject: Re: iTunes on Windows
Date: 23:10 on 03 Oct 2006
* Martin Ebourne <lists@xxxxxxx.xx.xx> [2006-10-03T17:59:20]
> On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 23:51 +0200, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
> > The filesystem is not a good way to organise music. For small
> > libraries it's OK. To navigate big ones, it blows.
> The filesystem is an entirely excellent way to organise music. So long
> as it's all laid out consistently, which is the software's job.
> (sound-juicer works well for me, sorry that was rather off topic).

I think that Aristotle was talking about more than just

  ./music/Some\ Band/Some\ Album/01\ Track.mpg

...or the equivalent.  With iTunes, I can easily say "every song from an album
with 'Greatest Hits' in the title" or "every song that I rated 3+ stars and is
not in the genre 'chick music'" and so on.  It stores quite a lot of data about
your music that can be used to build fairly diverse collections, quickly.

Smart playlists, and the way that iTunes' data collection interacts with my
iPods' data collection is what I really love about iTunes.  (I have my own
hates about it, too, though... mostly about the features it lacks.  Those
hardly count.)

-- 
rjbs
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