GOTTA LOVE MAC!!!!
on 2/4/01 7:32 PM, CatherineTurley at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'd like to step in from the Mac perspective and say this: iTunes!
> iTunes! iTunes!
>
> Its freaking amazing. Just introduced at the last MacWorld Expo by the
> sinister Mr. Jobs (he's no Bill Gates, but . . )
> You can download it for free from the Apple's site
> (http://www.apple.com/itunes/), and its sooooooo cool. Pop your cds in the CD
> drive, and MP3 the whole disc with a single click. Searching and accessing
> your entire collection is very, very easy, and you can make limitless lists
> for playback, or burn them to a cd with a single click. Compilation disc
> heaven.
>
> For around $300 you can add a 30 GIG Firewire external hard drive (or larger),
> MP3 your existing discs (or organize your downloads), and store hundreds and
> hundreds of CDs (nearly 1000 full albums, by my reckoning) on you desk top.
> I've got about 1200 individual songs stored in 3.5 gigs, and have never had a
> playback problem, but we also have a generous amount of RAM. More RAM is
> always a good thing.
>
> Maybe this is similar to what Real Jukebox does (I haven't been to the [PC]
> Dark Side lately, so I'm not up on what's current there), but iTunes is so
> superior to the Mac stuff we'd had before--Adaptec Toast and Quicktime Player-
> better for organization and playback and cd burning. The only caveat is that
> you have to be running at least OS9. And its freaking free! Mac people,
> step up to the music trough!
>
> Freak on . ..
>
> Catherine T. in greater Seattle
