>Besides the obvious missing support for some music file formats, what's
>so bad with iTunes?
>
Oh, there's so many things...
- Exploding compilation track artists into the list of artists.
- No support for multiple tags (aritsts, genres).
- CD autoplay automatically brings up album ripper (overrides Windows default
choice).
- QuickTime causes Windows "no disk" exception messages.
- No Music rescan
- have to find orphaned files and delete manually
- have to manually add new music
- Only gets artwork from tags, not disc files (eg. not folder.jpg).
- Get album artwork will download from internet and store in tags,
which can lose multi-tag information in id3 tags that it failed to initially
read.
- No current playlist display
- Can't navigate freely from one item to related music (eg. show other
songs by this artist).
...loads of other things, I'm sure. IPod's have additional issues from a
useability point of view that wind me up.
But there are some things that it does better than SBS (without needing
plugins):
- Podcast support
- Remembers last played position (per episode)
- Ratings/playcount/last played info
- Smart playlists
- multi-user support
- each person has their own library, different music paths, different
podcasts, different settings.
- Show in windows explorer
I mainly use iTunes/iPod Nano for listening to podcasts, not my music.
>To me it has felt like the last years the focus of Squeezebox(and SBS)
>has mainly been improvement in scanner, format support and support for
>new online services and support for new hardware. However, if we look at
>the ability to browse and control your library, what has been improved
>the last years ?
>
Not much. No rating support, smart playlists, multi-user support - all the
things that an average family are growing accustomed to being to do in other
software.
>I'm sure I'm forgetting some feature but still, is Squeezebox/SBS
>really better than an iPod Touch/iTunes when browsing and controlling
>your music listening ?
Yes!
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