| Oh, right, this is why I hated iTunes... |
[May. 11th, 2008|01:44 pm] |
Well, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) takayla willingly gave me back the shuffle, and I have been fooling with it all morning. I know, I'll go blind if I keep doing that, right? I got this shuffle as a gift from an Ars gift exchange about a year and a half ago, and then I got the iAudio, so I didn't use it. I recall this was my first encounter with iTunes, and how much I hated it. This is my beef:
- It is currently taking up 73% of my CPU, and that's after I added my music.
- I can't just add stuff to my iPod, no, I have to have iTune "discover it," or import a folder
- That "import" stuff, and thank God I remembered this from last time, slows down the iTunes to a crawl. Last time, it froze the computer, so this time I am importing only a few songs at a time.
- The iPod doesn't like ogg files. Come on, it's an Open Source standard, Apple, jesus. I got iTunes to accept ogg with a plugin, but the iPod won't take it because even the most current firmware won't recognize it. So much for half my music.
- I have to bind it to this computer, and that's not so much an iTune issue (it could me, I didn't check very thoroughly), it's the fact the shuffle takes a proprietary charger/transfer device.
- Linux can read, but not sync. I think it's a PEBCAK, so I had to boot back into Windows for the first time in a week
- Because iPod wants to catalog things ITS way, my current folder structure is pretty meaningless
- Adding songs you just burned from disk or moved around folders requires a manual rescan
Oy. Of course, I may have to get used to this, not just because of the Shuffle, but if the rumors are true about the new iPhone coming in late June, the $200 new iPhone with the 2-year contract, GPS, and so on... it could replace both my MP3 player and phone, which I could budget for since I planned on getting a new phone anyway. |
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From: (Anonymous)
2008-05-11 06:33 pm (UTC)
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> - Because iPod wants to catalog things ITS way, my current
> folder structure is pretty meaningless
At least this one you can get around. Go into the iTunes preferences and indicate that you DO NOT want it to manage your directory structure. Easypeasy. You actually had to answer this question upon installation.
> It is currently taking up 73% of my CPU, and that's after
> I added my music.
That right there is fscked up. I cannot remember iTunes ever misbehaving so much on either of my Macs, nor on my wife's XP box.
Cailin | |
