On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 11:08:30AM -0700, Jason LaPier wrote: > If you really want iTunes in linux, Banshee aims to fill the gap: > http://www.banshee-project.org
Banshee seems not to have the browser feature built into iTunes.. Cmd-B in iTunes brings up a frame at the top with a list of genres, artists, and tracks. Selecting any of these limits the track display by whatever of those criteria you select. I've really started to get into the idea of using databases with indices and selections to find what I want to see. It's extremely handy, and it really does seem to be the trend in managing a user's data in most areas. I say most because the one area that still would benefit is the one that so far is least developed in my mind: Email. Gmail doesn't make it quite as easy as I would like to sort or select by multiple categories on the fly. Its ability to be really smart is limited somewhat by the fact that the data is all kept on Google's servers/ It also doesn't doesn't really have anything I would consider equivalent to seperate mail folders, which is important when you're on as many lists as I am. At the same time, the standard method of storing one message per file in an unindexed flat file tree demonstrates itself as slow and difficult to use for large volumes of mail. There's also the fact that I would prefer to do this from the console. Basically, I use mutt and I like mutt. I just want it to operate a little faster and have it be smarter about handling lots of folders at once. _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
