The way I was able to switch from regular to soda to diet was drinking C2. I couldn't stand diet coke, it tasted empty and metallic. I drank C2 for about a month then tried diet coke again one day. Since I had weaned myself off of the uber-sweetness, it wasn't that bad. Now if I even try regular coke, its feels like drinking syrup. I am almost completely off of sugary sodas and now even C2 is too strong.
The exception to this is Mt. Dew. Diet Mt Dew is the height of nasty, so I sneak a regular one in from time to time.
Yes, being able to edit the info of more than one file is handy.
Just by looking at my original mp3 directories I have 104 distinct artists. I know this because I have put them in seperate directories by artist, then by album as I ripped them. It was easy to do it this way already because I was ripping most of the cds one at a time and often the ripping software would make the directories this way (CDEX is my favorite).
So after I search for each one, update all of the artist fields, then I need to do the same to update all of the album names. So if each of these bands have 3 albums, (which is a very conservative estimate since most of the bands I like have been around for awhile) thats 300 album names to type in. Just so I can use iTunes.
No thanks.
I will continue to use iTunes as a method of copying my media on to my iPod and Winamp to play my music. It loads pretty fast, it has an "always on top" feature and its responsive. ("Enque Directory in Winamp" ftw!)
I plug in my ipod, all my podcasts, videos automatically re-encoded by my eyetv, and any songs I've downloaded with cabos are all automatically added to the player.
The fact that you have to mess with all of these 3rd party encoders is one of the major problems I have with iTunes. ITunes sucks at transcoding video. There is a whole market of 3rd party shareware and freeware devoted to just these shortcomings. Oh and if you have a 60 gig ipod with the latest firmware, only a few of those applications can produce video the iPod still likes. If you are going to develop a video Ipod you have to expect that PC users will want to put avi or wmv on there, even if it has to transcode it first. QT and mpg only? WTF?
I don't like the way that iTunes uses the media metadata to manage my library rather than at least defaulting back to a file and directory approach. It assumes that if you have an existing library that you must have it all in one directory and that you were using very normalized id3 info to manage it. Like many, I have had an extensive music and video library that was already sorted by directory. ITunes ignores all of that puts it all in one big list that it expects me to filter with playlists.
I've been using id3 info from cddb/gracenote/freedb for years, but that information was user-submitted. So sometimes the info that it groups and sorts by has slightly different wording or content. So now under bands I have "Beatles" and "The Beatles". Then in a year when I buy some new Beatles compilation from the iTunes store and it shows up "Beatles, The". Then what? So I guess I could go through and standardize the naming of all of the mp3s I've been collecting since 1997....Um...ya....no.
Don't even get me started on the lack of per-podcast settings, how unresponsive the player application is even on fast machines or having to "Add to library" anything new rather than it watching a directory....
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All pranks are childish in some way. You seemed to have missed the point completely.
The way I was able to switch from regular to soda to diet was drinking C2. I couldn't stand diet coke, it tasted empty and metallic. I drank C2 for about a month then tried diet coke again one day. Since I had weaned myself off of the uber-sweetness, it wasn't that bad. Now if I even try regular coke, its feels like drinking syrup. I am almost completely off of sugary sodas and now even C2 is too strong.
The exception to this is Mt. Dew. Diet Mt Dew is the height of nasty, so I sneak a regular one in from time to time.
I am simultaneously inspired and creeped out by your success story.
Yes that was a great excuse when the game first came out in 2004. Now there is no excuse.
Yes, being able to edit the info of more than one file is handy.
Just by looking at my original mp3 directories I have 104 distinct artists. I know this because I have put them in seperate directories by artist, then by album as I ripped them. It was easy to do it this way already because I was ripping most of the cds one at a time and often the ripping software would make the directories this way (CDEX is my favorite).
So after I search for each one, update all of the artist fields, then I need to do the same to update all of the album names. So if each of these bands have 3 albums, (which is a very conservative estimate since most of the bands I like have been around for awhile) thats 300 album names to type in. Just so I can use iTunes.
No thanks.
I will continue to use iTunes as a method of copying my media on to my iPod and Winamp to play my music. It loads pretty fast, it has an "always on top" feature and its responsive. ("Enque Directory in Winamp" ftw!)
I plug in my ipod, all my podcasts, videos automatically re-encoded by my eyetv, and any songs I've downloaded with cabos are all automatically added to the player.
The fact that you have to mess with all of these 3rd party encoders is one of the major problems I have with iTunes. ITunes sucks at transcoding video. There is a whole market of 3rd party shareware and freeware devoted to just these shortcomings. Oh and if you have a 60 gig ipod with the latest firmware, only a few of those applications can produce video the iPod still likes. If you are going to develop a video Ipod you have to expect that PC users will want to put avi or wmv on there, even if it has to transcode it first. QT and mpg only? WTF?
I don't like the way that iTunes uses the media metadata to manage my library rather than at least defaulting back to a file and directory approach. It assumes that if you have an existing library that you must have it all in one directory and that you were using very normalized id3 info to manage it. Like many, I have had an extensive music and video library that was already sorted by directory. ITunes ignores all of that puts it all in one big list that it expects me to filter with playlists.
I've been using id3 info from cddb/gracenote/freedb for years, but that information was user-submitted. So sometimes the info that it groups and sorts by has slightly different wording or content. So now under bands I have "Beatles" and "The Beatles". Then in a year when I buy some new Beatles compilation from the iTunes store and it shows up "Beatles, The". Then what? So I guess I could go through and standardize the naming of all of the mp3s I've been collecting since 1997....Um...ya....no.
Don't even get me started on the lack of per-podcast settings, how unresponsive the player application is even on fast machines or having to "Add to library" anything new rather than it watching a directory....
I liked it better the first time it came out when it was called Serious Sam 1+2!