Oo, Kiran, thanks for so many good pointers to things I hadn't heard of. I really dislike iTunes (which has nothing to do with the fact that last I heard my ex-wife was working on it, honest) and have been really trying to use Songbird but it's not cutting it.
Jeremy On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 05:40:15PM +0530, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote: > On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Vinayak Hegde <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > For music I would recommend Quod Libet[1]. Amarok 1.4.x was good. > > Unfortunately they decided to do a rewrite in 2.x series and several > > of the features that I wanted such as queue manager are missing. I > > litsen to complete albums and individual songs mixed so Quod libet. > > The Queue manager and support for different formats is really good in > > Quod libet. Also it scrobbles my songs with the lastfmsubmitd (As all > > my music prefs are now on last.fm) > > > > Let me know if you come across a good solution for batch processing > > and auto-adjusting of Raw Images. It has been a persistent problem for > > me as well. > > > My project has gone from speculation to execution following the (second) > death of my Mac. The same graphics crapout as last time. > > So: all my data is now on the Ubuntu desktop that used to be my media > server. The box has moved from the bedroom to my desk, and I'm now fully > engaged with Project No Apple Dependence. > > Which was just two items anyway: > > 1. The newly GPLed Raw Therapee 3.0 alpha doesn't suck, which is saying a > lot. > > 2. There's a iTunes metadata import script for Rhythmbox which mostly works. > It turns out iTunes hadn't properly written IDv3 tags on some songs, and > since Rhythmbox now recognises them as something else, the script failed to > transfer their metadata (rating and play count). > > I tried Quod Libet, but fail to be impressed. It's got a wee bit of an "I > know you're smart, so I won't make things simple for you" attitude. > > I then tried Banshee. The new version from the Ubuntu PPA finally has > working iTunes import. It copied the metadata over correctly, but converted > all my smart playlists to static ones. Since I only use a handful, I can > redo those. No worries. My music will live with Banshee for now. > > I will now give de-iTunification a proper run. This means: > > 1. Reformat the iPod to something Banshee can handle. > 2. Find some other way to manage Nike+ (I don't use nikeplus.com, but > Dailymile syncs with it, so that's convenient). > 3. Get Banshee syncing with my Android phone. It looks like there's a plugin > already. > 4. I moved podcasts to Google Listen and vidcasts to Miro some time ago, so > those are not of concern, but videos on the iPod would be nice. > > Kiran
