that's what i use all the time grin. do you remember me from your msn
list? i think you're still on mine.
On May 18, 2008, at 11:09 AM, erik burggraaf wrote:
Hi, I just got a look at vlc player, and I think I've come home,
smiles. I'm not quite ready to abandon the iTunes ship just yet but
probably very soon that is how things will go.
Anybody know what all the unlabelled controls in the main window are
for?
Thanks,
erik burggraaf
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On 18-May-08, at 5:59 AM, Dan Eickmeier wrote:
Yeah I have to agree Erik, it is rather in convenient having
multiple copies of files, and that's why I have VLC on my mac as
well. About the only thing I use ITunes for, is podcasts.
On 18-May-08, at 11:34 AM, erik burggraaf wrote:
Hi Cara,
I'm a pretty new mac user, and so maybe some of this is just that
it doesn't work like my old stuff did, but I loved the method of
winamp and it's over all interface and functionality. Where-as
ITunes seems more like going back to windows media player or even
musicmatch.
Take a week or two ago when I had to ask where the fast forward
and rewind controls were. They don't appear anywhere in the
menues, so I was stumped. What other features might I be missing
in that regard?
Now, when I opened a file Winamp would play it. When I opened a
selection of files or a folder winamp would playlist it. It would
save those things if I wanted it to, but only if I told it to.
ITunes works backwards. You have to load your ITunes library. It
will play a file or selection if I open it in finder, but not
without placing it in the library and adding it to the main play
list. I find that rediculously clumsy. It keeps track of a lot
of information I don't care about, such as my own personal ratings
for things.
Here's a case where this got really in my way. I bought "A Civil
Campaign" by Lois M Bujold some weeks ago from Emusic. It was a
15 disc audiobook and it came in over 360 track by track files.
ITunes imported the entire 360 files into my music playlist and
dumped them right in with my albums. I tried to seperate the book
out by making a new play list from the files, but all that did was
make an extra layer of pointers to the files in my music playlist
in my library. So, to listen to my book I have,
*1 copy in my emusic download folder,
*one copy in my ITunes library,
*one set of pointers in the main music play list,
*one set of pointers in the new play list for the book files.
Mercy! God save me if I had an IPod, or I'd have a copy on there
too most likely. Using winamp I could just open the book from my
downloads folder and it would go until I opened something else. I
have to clean up the ITunes library to get rid of the extra copy
after every book, and at 360 files per book that's rather
inconvenient. At least when I moved to Toronto very quickly at
the beginning of april I had a few albums here because I'd played
them in ITunes and it added them to library on the fly, but I
really don't want it to do this with my audiobooks.
Now we have this issue where iTunes doesn't support flac, and it
doesn't support ogg, and so now I'm looking at VLC player, or at
least, I will shortly. But I don't really have a desire to have
two media players. Even under windows I refused to install real,
quicktime, and all the other junk they want you to have. It
doesn't appeal to my minimalist nature.
So maybe it's just me, but I'm really not sold on ITunes. I
haven't found any of it particularly inaccessible. I just don't
like the way it goes about it's business.
Best,
erik burggraaf
Certified Technician
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On 17-May-08, at 4:07 PM, Cara Quinn wrote:
Strange / clumsy? -Am curious here, what you mean?
Would ya mind elaborating?… Thanks so much and perhaps we might
help make it better.
Smiles,
Cara :)
On May 17, 2008, at 11:25 AM, erik burggraaf wrote:
Hi friends,
What's the preferred method of playing flac files on the mac?
The flac website has sugestions, but I'd rather get something
tried and accessible. Apparently iTunes doesn't support the
format and won't any time soon.
Actually, I've been thinking an alternative player might be nice
all around. ITunes has been doing more or less what I want, but
in what seems to me an awefully strange and clumsy way.
Best,
Erik
erik burggraaf
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Assistive Computing LTD Support and training
Sales department: 888-828-2445
Support and Training: 888-255-5194
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