pablolie;456466 Wrote: > Hey, these forums would be very tedious without our being opinionated > and passionate at times.
Thank you for your lengthy and considered reply. It is interesting that we have such different experiences with iTunes but I suspect that is down to individual configuration issues. I moved to an Apple iMac for the 24" screen and specific software including iPhoto and Logic Studio. It made sense to use it to host an iTunes library and it hasn't let me down yet. Yes, I am passionate about music, both listening and playing. I also teach Web classes and I am seriously interested in the direction that digital media distribution will take. I am also trying to cut down the number of computers, switches, WiFi basestations and other sundry devices soaking up the kWatts in our house. The wonderful AVI speakers are part of that :-) They are so revealing - but that is yet another story. I am guilty of persuing too many agendas here which is what had me tripping over my replies. My mindset was locked in the ripping, tagging, serving model even though I had all the evidence in front of me. Rental already makes more sense for movies and it is interesting to see music licencing moving the same way. Ripping - R.I.P. and not a moment too soon. I already download classical music from Passionato but have limited lossy pop/rock/electronica downloads to tracks where quality is not such an issue. I can see that I - and my mythical scenario friend - needs to embrace the new virtual library and let go of our CD security blanket. So that is conclusion 1 that I have drawn from this discussion. Tagging - I don't really see how this can go away just yet, at least until we fully embrace the cloud. I have returned to my own personal sanctuary of iTunes, accepting that it does not work for all users and there are serious problems on some platforms. I have Jaikoz as a reasonable alternative, but now my library is how I like it I don't expect to use it much in future (appologies to the developer who is a really keen, commited guy). I have found SqueezeCenter works well fed a properly (individual taste again!) structured library but I still don't know what I would recommend to a PC user to massage the library into shape, except to use dbPowerAmp and get it right in the first place. I have found the dbPowerAmp tag editor is ok for individual tracks and albums but not for mass editing - unless I have missed something which is quite possible. To be continued ... -- dBerriff ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dBerriff's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12247 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=67637 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
