I wasn't at first (heh, it something different!), but now I'm a big fan of iTunes. I also like the idea that iTunes manages my music folders for me, but the big kicker for me is that just about everything you tag a MP3 file with in iTunes is stored in the file, not only in the database like Windows Media Players does (or at least did in WMP9.)
This means I can add album covers and all the other meta-data and just copy my files from computer to computer. I was burned multiple times with WMP with 2500+ songs when my hard drive crashed or I reformatted my computer. I had most everything backed up, but all the changes I made (song titles, artist info, etc) were lost and reverted back to whatever DB values WMP pulls its "correct" information from. And for you iTunes newbies, make sure you hit "Ctrl + B" when you first view your library or playlists. Tyler -----Original Message----- From: Cameron Childress [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 3:56 AM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: iPod shuffle > > I've never used Windows Media Player to manage my mucis collection. > > I'm curious to know what that involves to "set up a library" in WMP? > > Probably nothing more that doing the same thing in iTunes I would expect. ---<snip>--- Just about all of that does sound very similar to iTunes. Your comments did bring one additional iTunes feature to mind (WMP prolly has it too). When I first started using iTunes it tried to move all of my music around on my drive into it's own directory structure. This pissed me off greatly since I had, like you, gone to great lengths to organise my music into a directory structure by genre, artist, and album. I cursed iTunes alot, and turned that feature off right away. However, after some time I turned it back on and now love it. Now when I change/modify/correct the ID3 tag info, iTunes will automagically move the files into an /artist/album/song.mp3 structure, with compilation and VA albums in a /compilations/album/song.mp3 structure. Now I can be as anal retentive about my metadata/ID3 tag info as I want and iTunes organizes my files into nice little directories for me. -Cameron ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Protect Your PC from viruses, hackers, spam and more. Buy PC-cillin with Easy Installation & Support http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=61 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:142489 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
