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Ask Slashdot: Best FLOSS iTunes Replacement In 2013?
First time accepted submitter cs80 writes "I've been looking high and low for a decent, open-source, cross-platform audio player that can import an existing iTunes library and sort my files based on their ID3 tags. Nightingale, with its iTunes-like interface, would have been the obvious answer, but its file organization feature was pulled for being too buggy. What open-source audio player did you migrate to after dumping iTunes?"
How surprising. An idiot without the courage to post under his own name who neither knows how to uncheck the box asking if he'd like safari installed nor uncheck the box telling iTunes to copy files to it's library. All he knows how to do is whine...
Democracy is a sheep and two wolves deciding what to have for lunch. Freedom is a well armed sheep contesting the issue
or maybe
1. software installs shouldn't default to bundling extra bullshit that really shouldn't be there in the first place?
2. software shouldn't have features that mess with source files turned on as start up/initial defaults?
itunes on windows is a piece of shit... hell so is quicktime. What started as a simple directshow/vfw codec turned into a monstrosity that installs tons of bullshit that is not necessary nor asked for.
I've got about 1100 albums in a library of over 300GB (90% lossless), even running with the actual tracks on my NAS over WiFi to my MBP, it's very fast.
I don't understand the people who say it's slow, maybe it's slow under WinXP on qemu on a raspberry pi?
or maybe
1. He should have read the installation options.
2. (end of problem)
Anybody that enjoys reading slashdot should have enough basic computer experience to know that you have to check for bundled software install options when installing free software.
He has no excuse. He obviously installed without checking the installation options. He did it wrong. He needs to stop bitching about it.