iTunes for Windows

[Diff-chan]

Dunno. I've fiddled with it for all of 15 minutes and I'm already liking it more than Winamp. J-Radio and a dozen electronic stations with the press of a button? Yes, please.

It's a hell of a lot easier to organize files, too. Thank god for one click file renaming, too.

So far, so good.

How do you do that one-click rename shit?

[stormy]

someone tell me how to disable iTuneshelper.exe

If i can't get this thing off

[Rocca]

start menu > run > msconfig > startup. Uncheck that option. It might keep coming back every week or so, but it's better then every time you turn your comp back on.

[stormy]

thanks, still seems to work fine even though ituneshelper is gone.

For comparison's sake, winamp 2 only uses 8MB of RAM for me.

[Rick]

I'll stick with WinAmp 2. I don't need something to organize playlists or download music for me, I just want something to play the damn MP3.

[Masaka]

After using iTunes and iPod together, why would you want to sync with anything else? MusicMatch =

MusicMatch is teh suck. I used it for about 2 minutes before it was uninstalled and I went and found a replacement. I use EphPod for Windows now and it's light years ahead of MM.

I'm at least interested in iTunes though. I actually like the idea of being able to buy one or two songs if I want to. Beats having to buy a whole CD for a couple of songs ;p

[Psx]

I wish there was some program to convert ID3 tags to unicode...then maybe a jukebox program could actually be useful if it could read all the songs properly at once.

[mollipen]

I'll stick with WinAmp 2. I don't need something to organize playlists or download music for me, I just want something to play the damn MP3.

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.

How do you do that one-click rename shit?

I'm not totally sure what you are talking about, but if you mean edit the ID tags without bringin up a seperate window, click on the information that you want to change, and then quickly click on it again, just like if you were re-naming a file on your Desktop. Any visible information (track name, artist, album, genre, etc.) can be changed that way.

If you were talking about something different, then ignore that.

Stupid bug #1: If you want to type in a new artist name for example, and you want it to start with a capital letter, it won't let you type the capital if the autocomplete is matching to a word with the lowercase letter. You have to finish the word, then go back and redo the first letter.

Indeed. This is one of the few bitches that I really have about iTunes.

I wish there was some program to convert ID3 tags to unicode...then maybe a jukebox program could actually be useful if it could read all the songs properly at once.

iTunes, at least on Mac OSX, can handle any language, and you can convert the ID3 tags from one format to another using one of the menu options. My library, for example, is an intermixing of English and Japanese track and artist names.

Of course, this might be because OSX is natively supportive of all major languages out there. I don't know if Windows has native multi-language support, so I don't know if it works the same way on the PC side.

[Click_Stick]

How do you do that one-click rename shit?

Click highlighted title. Once.

Type.

[LOL]

There's a nasty bug with it not recognizing CDs or not updating CD info when you change CDs. I'm trying to rip all of my CDs, but it sucks ass to restart the program every time I switch CDs. Hopefully there will be a quick patch for this, because I really like everything else about it.