The song rating is only one of the many meta-data tags iTunes uses. Genre is much more useful that little stars for creating smart playlists.
For example, I have a play list that looks for folk songs that aren't Swedish, Czech, Hungarian (i.e., American roots music for my library).
I have another that has all Jazz under a certain length (to exclude whole albums from my pirating days), excluding vocals and big band.
I spent a week entering meta-data into iTunes, because I find it very useful. I also make sure that CDDB has good entries for my CDs. If they don't I spend the time to enter all the data and submit it to CDDB.
You said: Without corporations, life would be much harder.
I think most anthropologists would disagree. There was a heck of a lot less stress and a lot more free time for hobbies in the hunter and gather societies.
As long as you are healthy in an H&G society, things are lot easier.
What I want is an OS (maybe by Mac 10.3.5) level meta-data browser/search engine, like the one that iTunes has.
I want to be able to give multiple lables to e-mail, documents, [just about everything], put them all in one big folder (or let the apps put them somewhere, like in iTunes).
Then I want to be able to create smartFolders (like the smartPlaylists in iTunes) which will filter and grab my meta-data for me.
Pharisee: The next person who says, "Dude!" is going to be stoned!
Person A: You said, "Dude!"
Crowd: Stone him! Stone him!
Person B: He said, "Dude!" too!
Crowd: (Yells and throws stones at everyone)
Well, this reporter was...possibly a little hasty earlier and would like to...reaffirm his allegiance to this country and its human president.
May not be perfect, but it's still the best government we have. For now.
[notices "HAIL IBM" sign taped up, tears it down]
Oh, yes, by the way, the spacecraft still in extreme danger, may not make it back, attempting risky reentry, bla bla bla bla bla bla. We'll see you after the movie.
Well, this reporter was...possibly a little hasty earlier and would like to...reaffirm his allegiance to this country and its human president.
May not be perfect, but it's still the best government we have. For now.
[notices "HAIL BOURNE AGAIN" sign taped up, tears it down]
Oh, yes, by the way, the spacecraft still in extreme danger, may not make it back, attempting risky reentry, bla bla bla bla bla bla. We'll see you after the movie.
Now if they only offered some nice flavored coffees in the Mozilla Coffee section (and cheap shipping to Sweden).
As a side note, I have found coffee strength in different countries to be interesting. I'm from N. America, and when I moved to the Czech Republic, my collegues would allows comment on how strong I made the coffee (they would also make 1/2 liter of tea with ONE tea bag--When I makes tea, I makes tea. When I makes water, I makes water--Finnegans Wake).
Then I moved to Sweden. My in-laws quickly informed me that they only drink Skona roast by Zeagas (a VERY strong coffee blend) and showed me how to make it at their incredibly high strength level. All of my corporate English student who have been to the U.S. complains about the piss-weakness of the coffee there.
If AOL wants to regain the karma lost when it dumped collaboration with Apple on the iTunes for AOL music store and went with "there is something rotten in Redmond" MS, then they should add the ability for iChat AV and AIM to have video conferences.
From a business stand point, it would be simple and cheap since Apple has already done most of the work for them.
Well, this reporter was...possibly a little hasty earlier and would like to...reaffirm his allegiance to this country and its human president.
May not be perfect, but it's still the best government we have. For
now.
[notices "HAIL OLD JOKES" sign taped up, tears it down]
Oh, yes, by the way, the spacecraft still in extreme danger, may not
make it back, attempting risky reentry, bla bla bla bla bla bla. We'll
see you after the movie.
I used to like going to IKEA and looking through their catalogs, because they had lots of iMacs, iBooks (both were of the fruity variety) and Powermacs on their desks. Now they only have HP products.
I used to teach English at an educational center here in Sweden, whose primary use was getting the chronically unemployed their ECDL and providing them with other job hunting skills. There were many people taking the ECDL course.
I just visited the Swedish Mac storeMacoteket. They had the iTrip listed on their front-page. After describing how wonderful the iTrip is they wrote this:
OBS! Denna produkt far ej anvandas i Sverige da det kan innebara storningar pa andra FM sandningar!
(Quick Translation: NOTE! This product cannot be used in Sweden since it can create interference with other FM broadcasts!)
However, you can still buy it if you wished (I have no money for an iPod, so there is little sense for me to get one).
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For example, I have a play list that looks for folk songs that aren't Swedish, Czech, Hungarian (i.e., American roots music for my library).
I have another that has all Jazz under a certain length (to exclude whole albums from my pirating days), excluding vocals and big band.
I spent a week entering meta-data into iTunes, because I find it very useful. I also make sure that CDDB has good entries for my CDs. If they don't I spend the time to enter all the data and submit it to CDDB.
I think most anthropologists would disagree. There was a heck of a lot less stress and a lot more free time for hobbies in the hunter and gather societies.
As long as you are healthy in an H&G society, things are lot easier.
What I want is an OS (maybe by Mac 10.3.5) level meta-data browser/search engine, like the one that iTunes has.
I want to be able to give multiple lables to e-mail, documents, [just about everything], put them all in one big folder (or let the apps put them somewhere, like in iTunes).
Then I want to be able to create smartFolders (like the smartPlaylists in iTunes) which will filter and grab my meta-data for me.
That's my dream.
Pharisee: The next person who says, "Dude!" is going to be stoned!
Person A: You said, "Dude!"
Crowd: Stone him! Stone him!
Person B: He said, "Dude!" too!
Crowd: (Yells and throws stones at everyone)
What if somebody published .NET benchmarks?
What if somebody wrote a standalone Word Processor/Spreedsheet with VB Stuido?
What legal grounds does MS or Dell or * have via EULAs?
I have no answers, only questions.
May not be perfect, but it's still the best government we have. For now.
[notices "HAIL IBM" sign taped up, tears it down]
Oh, yes, by the way, the spacecraft still in extreme danger, may not make it back, attempting risky reentry, bla bla bla bla bla bla. We'll see you after the movie.
That's my excuse, and I'm stickin' with it!
Just what were you smokin' when you read that (and where can I get some?)?
May not be perfect, but it's still the best government we have. For now.
[notices "HAIL BOURNE AGAIN" sign taped up, tears it down]
Oh, yes, by the way, the spacecraft still in extreme danger, may not make it back, attempting risky reentry, bla bla bla bla bla bla. We'll see you after the movie.
PS. I have a bad cold, so no comments/flames about horrible typos and English coming from an English teacher. ;-)
As a side note, I have found coffee strength in different countries to be interesting. I'm from N. America, and when I moved to the Czech Republic, my collegues would allows comment on how strong I made the coffee (they would also make 1/2 liter of tea with ONE tea bag--When I makes tea, I makes tea. When I makes water, I makes water--Finnegans Wake).
Then I moved to Sweden. My in-laws quickly informed me that they only drink Skona roast by Zeagas (a VERY strong coffee blend) and showed me how to make it at their incredibly high strength level. All of my corporate English student who have been to the U.S. complains about the piss-weakness of the coffee there.
Okay, they are working now. I don't know why they didn't before. Maybe MSBlaster problems. tssfulk
When I clicked on ES5 and EarthStation 5, I was told that I could not connect because the servers do not exist.
From a business stand point, it would be simple and cheap since Apple has already done most of the work for them.
May not be perfect, but it's still the best government we have. For now.
[notices "HAIL OLD JOKES" sign taped up, tears it down]
Oh, yes, by the way, the spacecraft still in extreme danger, may not make it back, attempting risky reentry, bla bla bla bla bla bla. We'll see you after the movie.
What ever happened to informing the Press first?
What's up with that!
tssfulk, a Yank stuck in Sweden
That should be a hoot!
tssfulk
I used to teach English at an educational center here in Sweden, whose primary use was getting the chronically unemployed their ECDL and providing them with other job hunting skills. There were many people taking the ECDL course.
I just visited the Swedish Mac storeMacoteket. They had the iTrip listed on their front-page. After describing how wonderful the iTrip is they wrote this: OBS! Denna produkt far ej anvandas i Sverige da det kan innebara storningar pa andra FM sandningar! (Quick Translation: NOTE! This product cannot be used in Sweden since it can create interference with other FM broadcasts!) However, you can still buy it if you wished (I have no money for an iPod, so there is little sense for me to get one).
Mac users with .Mac and iSync can sync their AddressBook to with their .Mac account and then sync it elsewhere.
tssfulk