On Wednesday, August 13, 2003, at 02:04 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 8/12/03 3:53:33 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Before iTunes 4, I used to be able to add cd's that I own to my
library. Now they start to import and iTunes crashes within 5 seconds!
It just crashed on me 8 times in a row and I tried multiple different
ways......
Fix or suggestions?
I do think that iTunes it is very annoying, I did posted a question like that
but didn't get a reply. Here's what I posted:
"Every time I open iTunes to play an MP3 or sound file it seems like is
making an extra copy. I converted all of my CDs to MP3s to preserve them longer a
while ago, does that mean that iTunes will save them somewhere else and
occupy another 4GB unnecesarily? The OS X disk only has 4GB free. The MP3s
exceed that."
With v4, iTunes has Smart Playlists. These are dynamic lists based on a criteria match. But, whether you use a Smart or a standard playlist, iTunes makes no copies of your files. The only time it copies is if you have it set up to copy the file to your music folder when you add it to the library (in which case it will be placed in folders according to its id3 tag). Putting a file in multiple standard playlists should only add to two files: iTunes 4 Music Library, and iTunes Music Library.xml. It makes no aliases or copies. I just put my entire library (1157 songs) into a new standard playlist, and it added 100k to each of the two files. I don't think v3 behaves any differently with its playlists.
Why can't iTunes make 1K or 2K playlists instead, I am tempted to dump it and
use something else. Is there a way to do such thing? Oh BTW a simple sound
file opens iTunes as well, when with classic OS it would just play on the
desktop (I used to add some music sounds to the startup folder).
It does this sort of. Only they are added to a file instead of making a bunch of small separate files.
Hamlin
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