tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7689571.post769426717445294704..comments2023-11-05T12:59:29.404+02:00Comments on CsĂkszereda musings: What I learned from iTunesAndyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11294221123964774524noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7689571.post-10994796482393043922012-02-10T18:16:00.662+02:002012-02-10T18:16:00.662+02:00Hey, this blog is on again:-)?
Hi Andy, I met you...Hey, this blog is on again:-)?<br /><br />Hi Andy, I met you in the summer of 2011, my sister plans to live near you and you showed me around your house (which was very nice:-))<br /><br />What kind of iPod Touch do you have, mine has wifi and I never had to go near a computer to download anything from iTunes, it works fine over wifi. Since iOS 5 it can supposedly even update iOS over wifi (although I never tried that one).Laszlohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06191152223499145854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7689571.post-53652547735813909982012-02-07T14:06:12.514+02:002012-02-07T14:06:12.514+02:00There are other things too.
1. Leaving iTunes is ...There are other things too.<br /><br />1. Leaving iTunes is a bit like leaving a cult. In fact, the thought of doing, and how long it will take to rejig everything to the right format has put me off trading in my iPod and iPhone for Android based devices. <br /><br />2. Much on the same theme, even just changing computers is horribly difficult. I got a new PC at the end of last year and moving iTunes (and all music) from one to the other was incredibly difficult.Craig Turphttp://www.bucharestlife.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7689571.post-17679586375788641502012-01-31T11:34:15.840+02:002012-01-31T11:34:15.840+02:00OK, I'll bite. I used iTunes for many years a...OK, I'll bite. I used iTunes for many years and was by and large happy with it. I never experienced the 'bloatware' you, and many others as well, described. even when it came to speed, I didn't find that a problem. But I made an essentially ideologoical decision to move away from iTunes. Like you, I disliked the almost religious fervour of the apple 'fan-boys' and I disliked the way Apple wanted to control my 'user experience'. So I made a decision to use opne-source and non-Apple products whereever possible. Since I don't have an iPod/iPhone as a portable media player this wasn't such a big deal. I re-ripped my music collection in FLAC, which iTunes does not support, and went in search of a alternative - a suitable based Windows media player for my (work) laptop. Man, what a mission that was. I tried Foobar but after a month of trying to customize it, gave up as I was spending more time on that than actually listening to music. Next was Winamp which, while doing the job, seemed to me so 1990's in the way it looked. All those uber-geeky skins! Let alone the fact that to rip at full speed I needed the 'Pro', i.e. paid version. No way was I going to use Windows Media Player 'cause I always found that too hard to use. And besides why swap the Apple dictatorship with a Windows one? I tried MediaMonkey but that was too 'function-rich' for my liking, i.e. more bloatware, I even purchased JRiver Media Center for heavens sake, but again, too feature-rich and it locked-up more times than I thought necessary. So I landed on Songbird. But without joy or enthusiam. It too is bloatware and let's not get started on how each new version breaks extensions. Sigh. However, I have stuck with Songbird as the best of a bad lot. I do miss the ease of use of iTunes, the way it easily downloads artwork, etc. when I rip a CD, or the ease at which I can legitimately purchase music. I can't go back and don't really want to, but to be honest I haven't any program that works as easily as iTunes. Every one has their favourite media players and I understand, to some extent, the hate iTunes seems to generate. But, but, if it wasn't part of the Jobs empire and all it stands for, I could consider going back.Paul Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13042347499548245711noreply@blogger.com