Just a couple of notes. First, I have no idea what feature you are
addressing here but in your message, you say you like tree views
because
column view is like windows. For the sake of full disclosure,
windows also
has two other modes to view in just like osx.
As far as organization, have you looked at the browser in ITunes?
you can
have all your albums listed, jenres, artists etc. I just the album
display.
----- Original Message -----
From: "erik burggraaf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS
X by
theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2008 8:58 PM
Subject: Re: ripping cd's
Hi Scott, Sorry about that, I didn't even think to look in the
ITunes
menu. Saddly my windowsish nature made itself evident, as I
looked in
the help menu first and discovering it wasn't where it would be in
windows, dashed off an email, lol. So it's done, fwew. Hopefully
it
will be useful.
I must agree with you on tree structures. I keep my finder locked
into column mode which most closely relates to windows explorer
interface and it works extrordinairly well. This morning before the
great cd ripping debacle, I had Itunes up and was playing with the
browser. That'd be pretty nice, except that it came up with all my
music sorted by genra which really threw a branch in my spokes,
because I never knew I had so many genras in my music collection.
It
also seems that a surprising number of artists are cross-genra. I
was
going to have a play and see if I could get it sorted artist/albumn
the way things are laid out in finder, but then I got sidetracked on
the cd ripping issue.
I'd love to put all my stuff back on line. I've been looking at
network attached storage, and we got a d-link dns323 up and running
here with two 1.5 tb hard drives for a client. If the four bay's
were
reasonable it might be fun to grab one and stack it up. My
collection's pretty big, but that would definitely keep me going
for a
while, grins. I still don't think I'd use ITunes though. All the
individual third party apps are so much less proprietary and more
powerful that it just doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. The
more I use Itunes, the more I think it's like a sell phone with all
the latest hardware: Digital camera, video, mp3, wifi, the works.
If
you need to take a picture, the camera will do it, and it may do a
pretty good job. But if you are in extreme lighting conditions or
you
want to do action shots at 30 to 60 fps, well, the sellphone camera
probably won't hack it. Most of the hardware in the rather
expensive
all in one device is like that. It's not useless, and it isn't
necessarily crap just because it's in an all in one, but it just
can't
beat the power of stand alone devices. The reason why I lose it
with
ITunes is that where-as with most things you get a choice, ITunes
locks on and takes complete control, and you don't get an opt
out. It
may be benine control for the most part, but if you are in any way
non-
conformist, ITunes fights you.
Audiobook builder looks like exactly what I need. I don't really
care
about chapter points and such. To me the real value of the thing is
that it'll playlist and segment audiobooks automaticly from the rest
of the library, making them hopefully easier to add and remove
without
disterbing the perminant residents. Appreciate the tip, and thanks
very much.
Best,
erik burggraaf
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On 9-Nov-08, at 3:37 PM, Scott Howell wrote:
Eric, first you can locate the option under the iTunes menu bar,
just VO-m for the menu and arrow right to iTunes and arrow down to
Provide iTunes Feedback. I don't fully understand the entire
cataloging process, but it sounds as though you have a system that
is considerably extensive and not always online and so iTunes may
not have all the functionality you require. As far as managing a
music collection, works great here, all my files end up in this
lovely tree structure which I like so very much. I am a tree
structure freak for sure.
As far as importing a CD, I have to admit I'm not so sure why the
settings aren't holding and you could possibly delete the plist
associated with iTunes, but that seems extreme. I can say for the
most part the audio book feature works well, but I did get a $10
app
called Audiobook Builder which seems to help in the process.
Syncing
via iTunes to the iPod works very well indeed and so overall iTunes
fits my needs well. I can understand of course you have a unique
situation and so you need to use what works best for you.
