iTunes for Windows

[stormy]

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*

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 got the folder options back. I can do everything you said there just as easily without making a playlist, except for playing specific genres. If i want all my songs i can right click My MP3 folder, hit play in Winamp and it will play everything. From there shuffle is just one more click. So that's 3 clicks. Same can be applied to artist, or album. Granted i organized all my folders myself, but it's not like iTunes does all the organization perfectly, you still need to do a lot of tweaking ID3 tags and such.

I honestly like both, but for me on a laptop with only 256Mb of RAM, i can't stand the performance hit.

[DArque Bishop]

Another handy tip for the day:

If your sound ends up sounding muddy or staticy in iTunes, go to the Control Panel, into Quicktime Settings, and change the Sound Out option from DirectSound to waveOut. I was having that problem myself, and changing it to waveOut fixed it.

[GohanX]

I just downloaded iTunes..and...

Holy shit!!!

First of all, it's the only player I've used aside from winamp that lets me simply add an entire directory to the playlist and randomize it easily when there are dozens of subdirectories and hundreds of files. Nice.

Second, my computer/mobo/soundcard has a fucked up problem. It can't play wav's or mp3's properly, there's some fucked up conflict. So, mp3 sound quality isn't up to snuff, and occasionally the sound skips. Itunes somehow fixed that. I forgot that I had a badass speaker set. Itunes also seems to have a nearly perfect high/mid/sub balance level (about as perfect as a 160kbps mp3 can get, anyway)

Also, the randomizer seems to randomize better. Don't ask me why, it may just be pure chance, but out of gigs and gigs of mp3s, there are just some songs winamp never played that Itunes has played. I have no explanation for this.

Me=

[Josh]

Is there any way to refresh your song list? If I remove files, or add files, iTunes doesn't want to recognize them.

[Schlep]

Is there any way to refresh your song list? If I remove files, or add files, iTunes doesn't want to recognize them.

If you're dropping new songs on iTunes or deleting them in iTunes, it does all of your management for you. If you're just putting them in the iTunes directory in Windows, it won't automatically add it.

[mollipen]

Putting new songs into a folder won't have iTunes instantly add them to its library. For me, since iTunes is my default player, if I double click the song in the Finder (Desktop or whatever for you) once I've put it where I want, it will then be added to iTunes. Or, you can just drag it to the iTunes window or whatever.

Or, if you've put a lot of files into different folders, you can go File -> Add to Library, and pick your main library folder. It'll go through and recognize all of the files that were added, and add them to its library.

For getting rid of music, you can do that directly from iTunes. Highlight the song you want to get rid of, and hit Delete. iTunes will then ask you if you want to throw the song into the trash (recycle bin) or if you want to just remove it from iTunes' library.

[flux=rad]

I've been messing around with this for a few days now, and I'm having fun with it. I'm gonna switch over to it for my main player. Right now I'm going through and fixing up the library by giving the songs the right track numbers and giving the albums cover art. When I get done, I think it'll be pretty slick.

[Diff-chan]

I've been messing around with this for a few days now, and I'm having fun with it. I'm gonna switch over to it for my main player. Right now I'm going through and fixing up the library by giving the songs the right track numbers and giving the albums cover art. When I get done, I think it'll be pretty slick.

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.

But yea this is now my main player, its running a lot better than it did yesterday (for some reason) and Im happy with its performance.

[Psx]

My conclusion of iTunes for windows:
Too big, bloated and slow for me. The only features that I really liked were the 'smart' playlists and also the rating system. I was never really a fan of jukebox programs anyway though.

[Josh]

I'm a little pissed. My sings are doing this stupid ass electronic skipping shit.

Kind of like the effect they occasionally use on the voice of the hip hop guy in Lincoln Park.

Needless to say, this is unacceptable. I tried changing the sound output, and it does nothing.

When it skips my PC processor usage jumps by 10-15%.

Why? Help me. I love this program... and really want to keep using it.