--- Doug Pensinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does anyone else hear use Itunes extensively?
I do I do!
First, are you using this on mac or winders?
> 1. Shuffle. While I think that over a long time span the shuffle is
> essentially random, I've noticed that over a shorter period it seems to
> emphasize certain albums/artists (I'm working with a 4-5 thousand song
> database).
Me too (4637 to be exact) I /think/ it weights towards highly
rated/listened to tracks, and then further within the genre of such
"popular" tracks; this is actually a really interesting thing to me, given
my job :)
> 2. Clipping songs. Sometimes songs are cut off before they finish
> playing. I'm pretty sure the same songs are effected time and again - in
> other words it's not a random problem, but I have no idea why these
> particular songs have problems. I am careful when I record my albums to
> refrain from all other activity on the computer so I don't think that
> I've corrupted the files, but I suppose that automatic stuff could be
> interfering.
I've not noticed that, but you may want to turn on the option for "cross
checking" or somesuch within the burning preferences.
Is your crossfade setting maybe on, with a wierd attack/retreat value?
> 3. Categorizing. The program has a real problem categorizing albums as
> compilations. It almost never categorizes the real compellations
> properly
> but often categorizes regular albums as compilations. Very irritating!
Compilation support is teh suck. FREX, any box set (like, oh, Eric
Clapton, Crossroads... or any techno album!) gets sorted as individual
albums, even when marked as a compilation. Major annoyance. When I sort
by artist, I want it to sort by artist, but keep compilations silo'd
together.
> 4. A friend of mine records his songs in m4A format and has a problem
> with
> the albums and song titles being automatically named in Itunes - he has
> to
> go through and name them one by one, but the folder and file names are
> correct. When I copy some of his stuff, I have the same problem, but I
> never have the problem when I record albums (using mp3)
I don't use m4A, but you know you can select entire albums and change their
names, yes?
I wonder if iTunes just doesn't read the equivilent id3 tags on m4a files?
-k-
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