Hasnt moved my files.
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Hasnt moved my files.
It hasn't moved my filed either.
I find the program pointless. It is far far too big to be an audio player (hell I consider Winamp3 too big to be an audio player) and as for sorting that is why Microsoft invented right click->new->folder.
First, I've heard a lot of people say that they didn't find it (the PC version) to be a resource hog at all. Maybe it is just different opinions.
As far as moving files, it absolutely should not without asking. A lot of people just click warning boxes that come up without actually reading them, so maybe that's what he did.
As far as "big"... what does that mean? You mean as in screen size? If so, just minimize it down so that it is only the controls and the track display.
Oh come now. We are long past the days when a 19MB app should be considered large.Quote:
Originally Posted by stormy
I think they were referring to the file size, which is tiny compared to some of the updates that shitty little bouncy globe tells me to download for Mac OS X. :)
So was I. (Referring to file size.) Why would you bitch about a 19MB application when the files it works with are each 5+MB?
Wait. What advantages over media player does this have?
It's not Media Player.
"snap"Quote:
Originally Posted by Lhadatt
I'll just copy and paste what I wrote over at my site...
Why use iTunes?
Here are my reasons for liking the app. Of course, I have little to no experience with WinAmp, so I can only compare the benefits to other apps that I know.
I think that the first major thing is the way you browse and play your music. With most apps I used before iTunes, it was either (a) open songs up one at a time to play in the app, or (b) whip up a playlist. With iTunes, the app gives you a big cataloged list of all of the music that you have. So, when using the app, every song that you have is there right in front of you, even if the songs are located in different places. You can sort your library by any tag that is supported - artist, song title, album, genre, encoding quality, you name it. You can turn on the filtered search option, which then puts three small scrollable columns at the top: artist, genre, and album. So, for example, you want to see all of you Ayu songs, you highlight her name and only her songs are shown. Want only your trance music? Same thing. There's a live search dialog at the very top, so as you start typing a search term, only the songs that match that term will show.
Of course, you can then create your own playlists and then drag songs from your libary into them, but you can also create "smart playlists." What these are are playlists that automatically add songs to themselves according to what rules you give them. For example, I have a "Top 25 J-pop" smart playlist. This list dynamically updates itself with the 25 J-pop songs that I play the most. Or I have one for listing any new songs I've added to my library in the last 30 days, in case I've forgotten.
Also integrated into the main player window is album cover art. (Of course, you can hide the art if you don't want to see it.) What is nice is that iTunes support cover art that is imbedded into the tracks. So, when you add the cover art, it is put into the actual song file, and follows it wherever it goes. So, if I have a track, and give it to Pro, if he loads it up in iTunes, the cover art will be there.
Then there's the networking feature. If there are multiple copies of iTunes on the same local network, they can share their libraries. So, for example, I can put iTunes and all of my music onto my desktop machine, and tell it to share its library. From there, my laptop copy of iTunes will then automatically find that there is another copy of iTunes sharing its music, and the desktop's entire music library will show up as a playlist on the laptop copy. So, if you want to have one "jukebox" computer in your house, it can share its music library with every other computer in the house. Or, each member in your family can share their own personal libraries. Thinking even bigger, I've heard of many schools where the Mac-using students shared their libraries over the local school network. This "sharing" isn't actually giving the other people the files - you are basically streaming the music from that other person's computer.
If you want to burn a CD, it couldn't be easier. Just make up a playlist, hit the "burn" button, and it's off. You can burn your music to a regular audio CD, or you can burn an MP3 or AAC CD.
That's a few things, and as those are all from the Mac version, of course the PC version could end up being a bit different. I've really come to love iTunes, if for no other reason than it is nice to have a browsable list of all of my music, instead of having to make playlists or pick songs to play one at a time. (BTW, for anyone worried about having this large iTunes window always floating around, it minimizes down to a small "controls and track info" panel.) But even beyond that, there are a lot of nice features, such as the smart playlists.
In comparison to other players 19mb is big, and when the program is that big usually the footprint is big too. I think Winamp and the DivX player are about 5 mb downloads. I finished the DL and i'll check it out after the game tonight. I'm currently using Winamp 2, 3 is too buggy and overdone. I use MusicMatch for my iPod and ripping, so at the very least i hope to replace that with iTunes. I'll post impressions later.