Eh, I'll stick with Winamp 2.8. I've used it for years, and it gets the job done.
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Eh, I'll stick with Winamp 2.8. I've used it for years, and it gets the job done.
Uh, yeah. I really don't care. I have no clue what I want to listen to in advance, I just open the folder and if I see something I feel like hearing that's what will get played. If I want to listen to the whole album that happens to be open (my stuff is organized in Windows Explorer by Artst-->Album) then double-clicking the next song isn't much of a hassle.Quote:
And having a program that sorts and lists your MP3s so that you don't have to open an open dialog to go find them doens't help you in the playing of the MP3s? I can't imagine why anybody would ever want to deal with having to open each and every song they want to hear manually, or having to make a playlist every time they want to listen to multiple songs without doing that.
What happens is that Japanese is handled fine because it is set as my default for non-unicode applications. All filenames and directories on my system are in unicode so they display correctly no matter what. The ID3 tag contained within the files is not in unicode however, and as there is no way to fix this that I know of, reading ID3 tags is useless for me. It would only work with Japanese, and songs that use the roman alphabet(although accents would get screwed up as well). Chinese(Big-5) and Korean(EUC-KR) would be left out...and that is a significant amount of music I listen too.Quote:
Originally Posted by shidoshi
Im pretty surprised you actually have English music.Quote:
Originally Posted by shidoshi
As for me I dont think Ive ever heard a Japanese song I liked.
edit1: question, is there any way to sort the columns so artist is first?
edit2: Last night I was like... pfft this program isnt better than Winamp (much to my dismay, I pimp Apple here more than just about anybody, and I dont even have a Mac), but then I went back to it... and yea, if you are gonna use it just in the same way you do Winamp, don't bother switching. However, try out Smart Playlists... try rating a few songs... try going on the internet radio... its really really cool and way better than anything Winamp ever was.
Yea, its a bit of a RAM hog compared to Winamp 2... but people, Winamp 2 is six or seven years old and doesn't do most of the stuff that iTunes does. And besides, most of you probably have 256+ megs anyway.
Just a quick FYI: The 19 MB file size might have something to do with the fact that it also includes QuickTime....
Just wanted to say that there is software that will properly convert ID3 tags to unicode based on your default system setting. here
See, from what you're saying, using iTunes sounds like it would allow you to do all of that, but far easier and more convenient. But, whatever.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rick
all you have to do in winamp is select all the mp3s in your album folder, right click, either Play in winamp or enque in winamp. It's easy. Or you can just do the same thing to the folder containing the MP3s you want to listen too (although this option hasn't appeard since the latest time i installed winamp). If you have all your files organized in folders already, you really don't need all the stuff in iTunes. The 25 most played and recently played lists are cool though.
Yeah, I'm not the total "it has to be Japanese or it sucks" fanboy that a lot of people probably expect that I am. I like almost everything, and have songs from every genre in my library (top40, hip hop, R&B, jazz, country, rock, alternative, etc.). Though, my English tastes could probably be mocked by people anyhow, because my favorite stuff are things like classical music or Frank Sinatra.Quote:
Originally Posted by diffusionx
I think part of the problem is that, by far, the stuff that gets the most exposure over here is the pop stuff, which, if you hate American pop, you'ree LOATH Japanese pop. And, for stuff like rap, their artists don't adhere to this "you have to look and act like a thugg" mentality, so a lot of their rap acts come off as seeming like jokes. Once you get past the stuff that is heavily marketed, though, they have a lot of "genuine" artists that I think are just as good as some of the artists over here.Quote:
As for me I dont think Ive ever heard a Japanese song I liked.
I can get every other column to switch to a different slot, but I can't get anything to come before the song title column. Odd.Quote:
edit1: question, is there any way to sort the columns so artist is first?
I think this is indeed the biggest problem for those people who are trying it for a bit and then saying they don't see the point. You can't come into iTunes expecting it to act like your other MP3 players. If you try to use iTunes like WinAmp, then of course it's going to seem like a worthless program. If you go into it and try things the iTunes way, I think you then get a far better idea of the purpose of the program and why it might be a better choice.Quote:
and yea, if you are gonna use it just in the same way you do Winamp, don't bother switching. However, try out Smart Playlists... try rating a few songs... try going on the internet radio... its really really cool and way better than anything Winamp ever was.
Like I said before, I can't imagine why anyone would want to stick with browsing through folders for the song they want to play when you have something like that. I know, opinions differ, but if I had to be back to the days of stopping what I was doing to go pick a new song every time the one I was just listening to stopped, I'd go mad.
And as far as organizing your music, there is nothing that comes even close to iTunes. (At least on the Mac side - maybe you PC people have something.)
It probably won't work, but highlight a song with screwed up tags, go up to "Advanced," go down to "Convert ID3 tags," and play with the last option a bit to see if anything will work.Quote:
Originally Posted by Psx
I can't give much advice, though, because the differences between multi-language handing on the Mac and on Windows are different. I wish the mess of multiple languages would be fixed up, but I think Windows does it the MS way because that is what MS wants, and Mac OSX does it a more "standard" way to try to adhere to standards. I don't see either side budging, and it causes problems. I get MP3s all the time that were created on a Windows system where the ID3 tags are nothing but gargage. It's frustrating.
Uh... all you have to do in iTunes to plan an entire album of MP3s is start playing the first song. From there, the rest will play in order. That, you know, kinda seems easier to me. *shrug*Quote:
Originally Posted by stormy
What if you want to keep playing music, but shuffle through your entire collection? What if you want to, in no more than two steps, play every song by a certain artist without stopping? What if you want to continuously shuffle through every song by one artist? What if you want to play all of the songs of one genre that you have - classical, for example?
These are all things that have nothing to do with playlists or any fancy features, yet seem to be impossible the way WinAmp works.
I like iTunes. And I tend to hate the "omfgmac" shit.
Is there any way to refresh your song list? If I remove files, or add files, iTunes doesn't want to recognize them.