iTunes has all the charm of a fat, bloated dead cow. However, it still works for me.
I live and die by metadata in iTunes. I almost exclusively use Smart Playlists to generate what I listen to. Winamp doesn't cut it for that, nor does anything else I've found. I take the time to correct all the meta data on all my music so I can do just this - that's important to me. To me this is the only way to really enjoy my music collection. If I want to listen to a single album, that's easy. If want to find all music I haven't listened to in a year that is of genre XXX, that's also easy. Show me how you can do that with anything else except iTunes or some iTunes clone. Definitely not WinAmp last I checked.
As for the iTunes clones, none of them come close to being able to run like iTunes. Try sorting by 'Album by Artist' or 'Album by Artist/Year' - I haven't found that in any of them, or if it does, it doesn't work the same. I hate to say it, but when I sorting data in iTunes, it just works perfectly for me. I get exactly the data I want IN THE ORDER I WANT. Not to mention the fact that none of them can sync to an IOS device, such as my iPod. Hell it's a Gen 2 iPod and *STILL* nothing can sync to it. I want auto-syncing of tracks and metadata - until somebody cracks the iTunes database format I'm stuck syncing with iTunes from my Mac.
Find me something that does all this and does it from OSX and I'm all over it. Until then, I'm stuck with iTunes. (Granted, I'm sticking with v10.7, anything else makes my eyes bleed and is full of crap I never use like their streaming services.)
Very cool! I just inherited a NorthStar system (complete in original box!) from my girlfriend's mother's basement (don't ask). I'm told it works - but I haven't had even had a chance to set it up. (Got it on Sunday night)
The NorthStar's case is solid wood! It's amazing. And the transformer in it is about the size of a grape fruit! From what I can tell, it appears to be from circa 1980. I hope this thing actually works!
Not only did I get a box of old software for it (can you say 'DBase II' on 8 inch floppys?) I also got most of an old IBM 3101 Terminal to use with it. I got the main box (which I believe has the CPU in it) and the key board, but no monitor.
I've been trying to find out information on NorthStar computers, but haven't been able to do much digging so far. Anybody know of a good place to start?
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iTunes has all the charm of a fat, bloated dead cow. However, it still works for me.
I live and die by metadata in iTunes. I almost exclusively use Smart Playlists to generate what I listen to. Winamp doesn't cut it for that, nor does anything else I've found. I take the time to correct all the meta data on all my music so I can do just this - that's important to me. To me this is the only way to really enjoy my music collection. If I want to listen to a single album, that's easy. If want to find all music I haven't listened to in a year that is of genre XXX, that's also easy. Show me how you can do that with anything else except iTunes or some iTunes clone. Definitely not WinAmp last I checked.
As for the iTunes clones, none of them come close to being able to run like iTunes. Try sorting by 'Album by Artist' or 'Album by Artist/Year' - I haven't found that in any of them, or if it does, it doesn't work the same. I hate to say it, but when I sorting data in iTunes, it just works perfectly for me. I get exactly the data I want IN THE ORDER I WANT. Not to mention the fact that none of them can sync to an IOS device, such as my iPod. Hell it's a Gen 2 iPod and *STILL* nothing can sync to it. I want auto-syncing of tracks and metadata - until somebody cracks the iTunes database format I'm stuck syncing with iTunes from my Mac.
Find me something that does all this and does it from OSX and I'm all over it. Until then, I'm stuck with iTunes. (Granted, I'm sticking with v10.7, anything else makes my eyes bleed and is full of crap I never use like their streaming services.)
Very cool! I just inherited a NorthStar system (complete in original box!) from my girlfriend's mother's basement (don't ask). I'm told it works - but I haven't had even had a chance to set it up. (Got it on Sunday night)
The NorthStar's case is solid wood! It's amazing. And the transformer in it is about the size of a grape fruit! From what I can tell, it appears to be from circa 1980. I hope this thing actually works!
Not only did I get a box of old software for it (can you say 'DBase II' on 8 inch floppys?) I also got most of an old IBM 3101 Terminal to use with it. I got the main box (which I believe has the CPU in it) and the key board, but no monitor.
I've been trying to find out information on NorthStar computers, but haven't been able to do much digging so far. Anybody know of a good place to start?
thx,
Kazot