iTunes for Windows

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Originally Posted by diffusionx

Yea I wanna do that too but the problem is that my 955 files are in complete, total, disarray. Winamp kinda masks the lack of ID3 tags by using the filenames but a ton of my files didnt even have ID3 tags, and most of them dont even have the album name on them... its gonna be a loooong loooong time before this is in order.

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I just reinstalled WinXP on my PC last night so I haven't gotten around to the Windows version of iTunes, but on the Mac, you can just select all songs by an artist and do mass editing of tags. So for my 4000-something files that didn't have ID3 tags, it was much easier and faster. The bulk of work I had to do was changing the song names to be different from the file name. My 'delete' key got a workout.

I hope that's a feature on the PC version. :)

So how is iTunes for Windows any better than using Winamp 2 with the album list plugin?

Try it and see...

But the smart playlists and super easy burning/ripping are 2 examples I could probably come up with off the top of my head.

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Originally Posted by diffusionx

Try it and see...

But the smart playlists and super easy burning/ripping are 2 examples I could probably come up with off the top of my head.

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I don't want to try it, because there seem to be a lot of reports circulating around about iTunes reorganizing MP3 collections and fucking around with PC's in a variety of other ways. How are smart playlists different from the capabilities offered by Winamp and its thousands of plugins?

I don't really care about burning, but are there any limitations of the iTunes ripping capabilities?

Plugins? Fuck that shit.

Smart playlists... like it lets you enter a few different parameters and it automatically makes a playlist.

In 2 clicks you can get all of the songs by one artist, all the songs you rated 5, all the songs in a genre, all the songs from 1978 (or any other year), etc... its actually really powerful and hella easy.

As for ripping... erm, no, no limitations that I know of.

Honestly Ive used Winamp for... oh I dont know maybe 7 or 8 years now but after 2 days of iTunes I realized its superior and I would take iTunes over having to fiddle around with goddamn Winamp plugins any day.

Sure you could probably *do more* with Winamp and its plugins but iTunes is so damn easy and you dont have to worry about mp3 files anymore as much as you do whatever shows on iTunes... and like I actually want iTunes to reorganize my files, it never did but I rather it would but I dont know how to do that.

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Originally Posted by Mamoscott

I don't want to try it, because there seem to be a lot of reports circulating around about iTunes reorganizing MP3 collections and fucking around with PC's in a variety of other ways. How are smart playlists different from the capabilities offered by Winamp and its thousands of plugins?

I don't really care about burning, but are there any limitations of the iTunes ripping capabilities?

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The only way it reorganizes everything is if you set your default iTUnes music directory to where you have your music before turning off the 'auto-sort' option (or whatever its called). I just imported my music from File->Import Directory and nothing was reorganized.

A new version of iTunes is available (4.1.1) see here

Now that's more like it, it actually works now. It still doesn't work 100% with my shortcut media keys though. Hope they hop on that for the next update.

Is there a way to make the library auto-update as songs are added?