ever try to drag a couple hundred or thousand files from one folder to another? the setup algorithm for the drag operation must be linear time or worse, because the more you try to drag the longer it takes. a thousand items takes a long time.
Right. I use that (I have genre off) but they're only partially as tall as the window. I have my window at maximum size, but i want to see, say, 40 artists instead of 15, so I can more quickly scan.
All I'm saying is I wish the GUI were improved to be more customizable. That would be swell.
I have over 200 albums, too, (not that I really think that's a lot these days) and ripped them all in a few days with no effort or attention on my part, using the iTunes rip-and-eject mode. Man that's sweet. Pop it in, wait like four or five minutes (or ten) and the CD pops out; then pop in a new one.
I do wish that the default settings for their encoder were more reasonable but they're easy enough to change.
I wish iTunes could tell you when it was having trouble reading a scratched CD, though. As I listen thru my music library every now and then I'll come across a messed-up MP3. I have a "re-encode" playlist for this purpose, so I can remember what tracks are junk and go back and try to re-rip them.
Gapless playback is not achieved by sliding the crossfade period to zero. If you do that, the first song fades out for about a tenth of a second while the new one fades in. That's not acceptable, and surely isn't the same as gapless playback.
Really, how hard is it to append a new audio stream to an existing stream without a gap? It's just a string of bits, right?
There is one pair of tracks that makes me want this feature: Parabol and Parabola from Tool's most recent album. Those tracks are essentially one song, and the god-damned quarter-second silence iTunes puts between them drives me CRAZY! it ruins the whole transition!
I'm just sayin'. I still use and love iTunes.
Here's a feature I wish it had, though: I wish I could drag around the interface elements. For me, what I really want is for the Artists to show up where the playlists show up, so that I have a whole window-height worth of space to browse my artists. Maybe the same for albums, so that you'd get four columns of data: playlists, artists, albums, and tracks. Perhaps columns could pop in and out of existence contextually.
Dartmouth got number five. I don't know how access gets any better than at Dartmouth, where you can get a guaranteed signal over 100% of the entire campus, including all the dorms, all academic buildings, all open parks and greens, all the streets, performance halls, dining halls and study spaces, parking lots... everywhere.
The only place you can't get a signal is in the physics labs where the scientists were rightfully worried about interferance with experiments.
So anyway I don't know what my point is. I guess the top four schools must have some sweet wireless.
are you saying that Mac owners don't fix their broken Macs as often as PC users fix their broken PCs? why would that be? i would assume the opposite, but i don't have any evidence of that.
Seriously. Yo I've had problems with my Macs over the years, too, but doesn't Apple have the lowest DOA and repair rates of anyone in the computer industry? I think that's the relevant statistic.
Well, yeah dude. There is a fairly famous calculation comparing the total number of bits shuttled around the internet in a day to the total number of bits delivered by the US Postal Service every day. The USPS was way ahead. That's what makes a service like NetFlix so popular.
it's not that i disagree with you, it's just that you sound a little sour grapes. Like no one ever spent money on you to show they care, so you're bitter. Again, it's not that i disagree, just be aware of the tone you give off, dogg.
Okay, okay, sure. But modification and redistribution is the ENTIRE POINT of free software. Can you imagine if every change had to be accompanied by an entirely new name? We'd have millions of different softwares with only slight differences but different names. Hell, there wouldn't even be enough names to go around.
I don't really agree. I mean, if I take any piece of GPL software I can modify it so that it sucks and redistrubute it. Sure, someone could think that emacs sucks if my personal version of emacs sucks, but that's the tradeoff for freedom.
If you're worried that derivitave works will reflect poorly on your work, Free Software might not be for you.
Yeah I agree. All the other applications from Apple are so astoundingly awesome (iTunes, Safari, iChat are my favs, but also iMovie, iDVD, Garage Band, and the non-free ones like Final Cut Pro) that I'm shocked how piss-poor the Finder is.
Personally, I like the file browser, but what the hell is with the way the Finder chooses to remember window positions? It's totally random! Move your browser window, change its size, take away the chrome, and there is like a 20% random chance that the change will stick to the next browser window you open -- and for the life of me I can't figure out when the changes stick and when they don't.
Also, isn't it totally obvious that you should be able to double-click on the document preview to open the document? It's huge! It represents the document! How could this NOT be the natural thing to double click?
Is it REALLY too much to ask to have a half-way point for complicated drags? You know, a way station for files going from one deep location to another? NeXT had this (right?), and I can fake it with a couple 3rd-party utilities, but none of them are any good. Or even how about "pick up" and "put down" commands? Like select some files, right-click-"pick up" then they stay with you while you can fully navigate to the destination then right-click-"put them down".
I did try out PathFinder one time but it needed some Apple-y polish. Maybe I'll give it another chance.
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off topic: Fred Rogers had a requiem written for him, released in February. He went to my college, too, and spoke at my graduation.
lighten up, man. one fewer SE in the world is not trashing history. there are millions of computers in dumps around the world. you may be a proud owner of a Classic which will not be destroyed, but instead it'll die a lonely death in the corner of a closet.
you're totally right. next time i get some mod points i'm'a go thru and mod down everyone who says that in their post. seriously. it's like "first post" for karma whores.
i don't know. i went there in Sarafi and of course it didn't crash. so i fired up IE and it displayed the exact same page, no problem. 'cause it's Mac IE, i guess.
(tongue in cheek:) i guess that's further proof that all things are better on a mac.
PS back when i used Mozilla i can across a webpage that crashed Moz. the page was fine in all the other browsers, but Moz would just crash when it loaded the page. i never figured out why -- the html looked okay to me.
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ever try to drag a couple hundred or thousand files from one folder to another? the setup algorithm for the drag operation must be linear time or worse, because the more you try to drag the longer it takes. a thousand items takes a long time.
Right. I use that (I have genre off) but they're only partially as tall as the window. I have my window at maximum size, but i want to see, say, 40 artists instead of 15, so I can more quickly scan.
All I'm saying is I wish the GUI were improved to be more customizable. That would be swell.
I have over 200 albums, too, (not that I really think that's a lot these days) and ripped them all in a few days with no effort or attention on my part, using the iTunes rip-and-eject mode. Man that's sweet. Pop it in, wait like four or five minutes (or ten) and the CD pops out; then pop in a new one.
I do wish that the default settings for their encoder were more reasonable but they're easy enough to change.
I wish iTunes could tell you when it was having trouble reading a scratched CD, though. As I listen thru my music library every now and then I'll come across a messed-up MP3. I have a "re-encode" playlist for this purpose, so I can remember what tracks are junk and go back and try to re-rip them.
Gapless playback is not achieved by sliding the crossfade period to zero. If you do that, the first song fades out for about a tenth of a second while the new one fades in. That's not acceptable, and surely isn't the same as gapless playback.
Really, how hard is it to append a new audio stream to an existing stream without a gap? It's just a string of bits, right?
There is one pair of tracks that makes me want this feature: Parabol and Parabola from Tool's most recent album. Those tracks are essentially one song, and the god-damned quarter-second silence iTunes puts between them drives me CRAZY! it ruins the whole transition!
I'm just sayin'. I still use and love iTunes.
Here's a feature I wish it had, though: I wish I could drag around the interface elements. For me, what I really want is for the Artists to show up where the playlists show up, so that I have a whole window-height worth of space to browse my artists. Maybe the same for albums, so that you'd get four columns of data: playlists, artists, albums, and tracks. Perhaps columns could pop in and out of existence contextually.
Sounds like girlfriends are like automobiles and dogs; wives are like computers and cats. /jk
Dartmouth got number five. I don't know how access gets any better than at Dartmouth, where you can get a guaranteed signal over 100% of the entire campus, including all the dorms, all academic buildings, all open parks and greens, all the streets, performance halls, dining halls and study spaces, parking lots... everywhere.
The only place you can't get a signal is in the physics labs where the scientists were rightfully worried about interferance with experiments.
So anyway I don't know what my point is. I guess the top four schools must have some sweet wireless.
are you saying that Mac owners don't fix their broken Macs as often as PC users fix their broken PCs? why would that be? i would assume the opposite, but i don't have any evidence of that.
Seriously. Yo I've had problems with my Macs over the years, too, but doesn't Apple have the lowest DOA and repair rates of anyone in the computer industry? I think that's the relevant statistic.
Flamebait is a right mod, I'd say.
Well, yeah dude. There is a fairly famous calculation comparing the total number of bits shuttled around the internet in a day to the total number of bits delivered by the US Postal Service every day. The USPS was way ahead. That's what makes a service like NetFlix so popular.
It might have been this
if they were smart, then pushing it would charge the battery.
or maybe they'll use fuel cells. Plug your segway into your PDA for power.
it's not that i disagree with you, it's just that you sound a little sour grapes. Like no one ever spent money on you to show they care, so you're bitter. Again, it's not that i disagree, just be aware of the tone you give off, dogg.
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man that's funny. i'm laughin'.
seriously imagine the look on a starving kid's face when he gets a picture of a cupcake to his village email address.
dude liv tyler is not hot, i'm sorry. i'm baffled that people think so. drew barrymore, on the other hand...
oh my goodness thank you that is so useful. i totally didn't know that.
Okay, okay, sure. But modification and redistribution is the ENTIRE POINT of free software. Can you imagine if every change had to be accompanied by an entirely new name? We'd have millions of different softwares with only slight differences but different names. Hell, there wouldn't even be enough names to go around.
compared to doing nothing previously?
I don't really agree. I mean, if I take any piece of GPL software I can modify it so that it sucks and redistrubute it. Sure, someone could think that emacs sucks if my personal version of emacs sucks, but that's the tradeoff for freedom.
If you're worried that derivitave works will reflect poorly on your work, Free Software might not be for you.
Yeah I agree. All the other applications from Apple are so astoundingly awesome (iTunes, Safari, iChat are my favs, but also iMovie, iDVD, Garage Band, and the non-free ones like Final Cut Pro) that I'm shocked how piss-poor the Finder is.
Personally, I like the file browser, but what the hell is with the way the Finder chooses to remember window positions? It's totally random! Move your browser window, change its size, take away the chrome, and there is like a 20% random chance that the change will stick to the next browser window you open -- and for the life of me I can't figure out when the changes stick and when they don't.
Also, isn't it totally obvious that you should be able to double-click on the document preview to open the document? It's huge! It represents the document! How could this NOT be the natural thing to double click?
Is it REALLY too much to ask to have a half-way point for complicated drags? You know, a way station for files going from one deep location to another? NeXT had this (right?), and I can fake it with a couple 3rd-party utilities, but none of them are any good. Or even how about "pick up" and "put down" commands? Like select some files, right-click-"pick up" then they stay with you while you can fully navigate to the destination then right-click-"put them down".
I did try out PathFinder one time but it needed some Apple-y polish. Maybe I'll give it another chance.
off topic: Fred Rogers had a requiem written for him, released in February. He went to my college, too, and spoke at my graduation.
amen, brother. doubly so with cartoons.
Is this story news for nerds, or stuff that matters? I can't figure it out.
lighten up, man. one fewer SE in the world is not trashing history. there are millions of computers in dumps around the world. you may be a proud owner of a Classic which will not be destroyed, but instead it'll die a lonely death in the corner of a closet.
you're totally right. next time i get some mod points i'm'a go thru and mod down everyone who says that in their post. seriously. it's like "first post" for karma whores.
i don't know. i went there in Sarafi and of course it didn't crash. so i fired up IE and it displayed the exact same page, no problem. 'cause it's Mac IE, i guess.
(tongue in cheek:) i guess that's further proof that all things are better on a mac.
PS back when i used Mozilla i can across a webpage that crashed Moz. the page was fine in all the other browsers, but Moz would just crash when it loaded the page. i never figured out why -- the html looked okay to me.