Hi. You really should consider doing what Penny suggested in another
thread, and set your itunes library to the external drive.
Personally I love the way itunes organizes my music, and you might
want to take another look at it. Prior to itunes, I also used winamp
in windows, and selected songs with windows explorer. But things are
so much better in itunes, where you can use either the search box, or
the browser to have your music sorted in to genre, artist and album.
I find I can get to the music I want much faster than I could in the
winamp days. Plus, you can use smart playlists to sort your music
based on various criteria. For example, you could have smart
playlists, to just play music from a certain year, or certain decade.
I have a playlist called "songs never played". Its purpose is for
when I've just added a bunch of new music to my itunes library. I can
select this playlist, hit shuffle, and then I get random music I
haven't played before. You can do much more creative things with
smart playlists, I'm just starting to play with them.
But at any rate, there are some great reasons to have itunes organize
your library. It's hard sometimes to get used to a new way of doing
things, but for me at least, I've found it a much better way to go.
Darcy
On 21-Nov-07, at 3:08 PM, Jed Barton wrote:
Hey guys, There has gotta be an easier way to play music on a mac.
I need a program that was quick and dirty like winamp in windows.
I never had to add music to a library. I wanna be able to open a
folder, highlight a bunch of tracks, and lick play, and cyce through
them.
Can this be done?
It almost seems like itunes is way too complicated, and is basicly
forcing you to organize stuff. I don't want to clutter my internal
harddrive with music, that's exactly why i got the external.
Any ideas?
I did the command O, and i ould not find my external harddrive in my
list.
Can someone go through a step by step process of adding a foler of
tunes that i can listen to?
I'm royally confused.
Thanks,
Jed
