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OT: Apple killed the Music player.

I HATE the new itunes. I find the layout of songs by album far less intuitive than the previous versions. I also mourn the death of the shuffle feature which I have grown to love. Am I being a reactionary Luddite or does the new itunes truly suck?

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I don’t use iTunes other than to move songs onto my Ipod Suffle.

As for a music player / library manager, I love Foobar. Super lightweight and easy to use.

http://www.foobar2000.org/

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by xanthan on Sep 15, 2008 8:29 PM PDT   0 recs

Foobar hotness

http://img208.imageshack.us/my.php?image=deskvf8.png

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by xanthan on Sep 15, 2008 8:42 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

My shmexyness

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by Natto on Sep 15, 2008 9:08 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Nice, PutS are pretty awesome hip-hop.

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by xanthan on Sep 16, 2008 5:26 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

pahaahahahaha

Godspeed You Black Emperor! and Grandady.

INDIE NERD.

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by SloIsLonelyForTheOrange on Sep 15, 2008 9:19 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

GY!BE is amazing!!!

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by jponry on Sep 15, 2008 9:21 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

IAWTC

watch the sarchasm.

/owns entire GYBE discography. and two albums from grandaddy

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by SloIsLonelyForTheOrange on Sep 15, 2008 9:23 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I was sure you weren’t really making fun of him for it, I just wanted to flail over GYBE a bit.

Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.

by jponry on Sep 15, 2008 9:25 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Favorite GYBE album? Also, do you like A Silver Mt. Zion? I’m not into much post-rock because I think the majority of it is pretty boring, but GYBE and A Silver Mt. Zion are some of my favorites.

#1 JUDY STEFFES FAN
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Bay City Ball

by xanthan on Sep 16, 2008 6:47 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I should

like lift your skinny fists. But my absolute favorite is the “single” Slow Riot. Moya is just one of my favorite pieces of anything ever ever ever.

Lift your skinny fists is a very close second, but Slow Riot is just sublime. Other than Yanqui UXO, I absoutely adore everything GYBE does. (dead flag blues is a great song off their E.P.)

I’ve never given a Silver Mt. Zion as my long, orchestral indie phase passed pretty quickly. It pretty much went Mogwai, EITS, GYBE and then stopped. That was when i was super turned on to Built to Spill though, so i forgive myself.

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by SloIsLonelyForTheOrange on Sep 16, 2008 7:35 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

beginning of that last paragraph

should read, "I’ve never given Silver Mt. Zion a try as . . . "

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by SloIsLonelyForTheOrange on Sep 16, 2008 7:37 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Lift yr Skinny fists for sure.

Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.

by jponry on Sep 16, 2008 7:43 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I was this close to loading up some Rush before I took my screenie ^ _ ^

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by xanthan on Sep 16, 2008 5:26 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I like Grandaddy: best thing ever to come out of Modesto.

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by oldjacket on Sep 16, 2008 8:20 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

32 or 64 bit Vista?

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by giants9107 on Sep 15, 2008 10:33 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

64-bit

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by xanthan on Sep 16, 2008 5:25 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

64-bit?

Any big problems so far?

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by WalrusMan on Sep 16, 2008 9:18 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Not yet, everything has installed fine. I’ve had problems with my virus scanner, AVG Free, but I mostly think it’s a problem with the newer version of the software and not the OS.

#1 JUDY STEFFES FAN
My favorite pie is (name of pie flavor)
Bay City Ball

by xanthan on Sep 16, 2008 10:30 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Foobar = Win.

And has .flac support which is really why I use it.

The Basil Fawlty Moderating Strategy:
"We could run a nice blog here if we didn't have all these members getting in the way."
How is my adopted son almost twice as old as I am? Nevermind...Go Omar! Warm the Bench!

by WalrusMan on Sep 15, 2008 9:03 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

foobar FTW

Unfortunately there is no Mac alternative.

There amass been plenty of articles written this spring about the stud shortstop Matt Cain and Tim Lincecum , as well as the fluid young outfielders and thirteen basemen Kevin Frandsen.
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by Natto on Sep 15, 2008 9:05 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

that’s because Macs are so awesome.

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by oldjacket on Sep 16, 2008 8:21 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Macs are awesome so they can’t have any good media player alternatives to iTunes?

There amass been plenty of articles written this spring about the stud shortstop Matt Cain and Tim Lincecum , as well as the fluid young outfielders and thirteen basemen Kevin Frandsen.
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by Natto on Sep 16, 2008 11:33 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Macs are so awesome

That they don’t need more than 10% of the software options of PC’s!

Eugeniooooooo!!!!

by FairweatherFan on Sep 16, 2008 4:14 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

You do know that current Macs can run Windows and Unix programs, right?

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by jcb9 on Sep 16, 2008 6:31 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

well...

you dont HAVE to use that new layout, new itunes still lets you go back to normal or cover flow, and the genius thing is pretty cool

by MeTaLLiCs0naTaS on Sep 15, 2008 8:29 PM PDT   0 recs

ahhh...

much better.

Flossing a dead horse

by kenshin1 on Sep 15, 2008 8:32 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

thanks for the warning

"he walked 18; new league record! Struck out 18, another new league record! He also hit the sportswriter, the PA announcer, the bull mascot twice..."

by i did my job on Sep 15, 2008 8:34 PM PDT   0 recs

cover flow...

returns it to the old interface

Flossing a dead horse

by kenshin1 on Sep 15, 2008 8:35 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

dont think that link worked but whatever

waiting for 2011....

by Osama91w9 on Sep 15, 2008 8:36 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Pandora

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My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.

by howtheyscored on Sep 16, 2008 2:42 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

And Pandora is very cool. I wish I bothered to use it more these days.

My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.

by howtheyscored on Sep 16, 2008 2:42 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Chrome HATES Pandora.

Travis Denker can hit a little. That's why I drive his bus.

by oldjacket on Sep 16, 2008 8:22 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I hate it too, and it took me a little while to figure out how to get it back to the original.

So to answer your question: yes, the new iTunes sucks.

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by Anticon23 on Sep 15, 2008 9:03 PM PDT   0 recs

ITunes is terrible.

There amass been plenty of articles written this spring about the stud shortstop Matt Cain and Tim Lincecum , as well as the fluid young outfielders and thirteen basemen Kevin Frandsen.
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by Natto on Sep 15, 2008 9:04 PM PDT   0 recs

thank you

apple music > apple computers

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by The Gene Hackman on Sep 16, 2008 12:58 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

That's why you don't buy...

An iPod or any iMusic stuff.

The Basil Fawlty Moderating Strategy:
"We could run a nice blog here if we didn't have all these members getting in the way."
How is my adopted son almost twice as old as I am? Nevermind...Go Omar! Warm the Bench!

by WalrusMan on Sep 15, 2008 9:05 PM PDT   0 recs

iMight just be starting to see things your way.

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by SloIsLonelyForTheOrange on Sep 15, 2008 9:21 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I haven’t upgraded yet.

I have to say, I’ve never understood why people hate iTunes so much. Though I’ve heard that it runs much much slower on PCs than it does on Macs.

Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
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by jponry on Sep 15, 2008 9:11 PM PDT   0 recs

I don’t hate it but it takes up a humongous amount of resources. I’ll open the process in the background and it’ll be sucking down 60-80megs of memory, for just a music player it’s crazy.

#1 JUDY STEFFES FAN
My favorite pie is (name of pie flavor)
Bay City Ball

by xanthan on Sep 16, 2008 5:28 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

This

iTunes is a pretty big memory hog. Plus I like the customization other media players offer, where iTunes is pretty limited.

There amass been plenty of articles written this spring about the stud shortstop Matt Cain and Tim Lincecum , as well as the fluid young outfielders and thirteen basemen Kevin Frandsen.
comics | cartoons | Nattowear | McFAQ

by Natto on Sep 16, 2008 11:36 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

exactly what customization

is there to offer? I really can’t think of anything else I truly want my iTunes to do.

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by SloIsLonelyForTheOrange on Sep 17, 2008 12:45 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

COLURZ!

The Basil Fawlty Moderating Strategy:
"We could run a nice blog here if we didn't have all these members getting in the way."
How is my adopted son almost twice as old as I am? Nevermind...Go Omar! Warm the Bench!

by WalrusMan on Sep 17, 2008 7:05 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

With foobar, I can customize the skin, layout, and other visual components. This probably is of no importance to you, but I like to have some control over the way my programs look.

There amass been plenty of articles written this spring about the stud shortstop Matt Cain and Tim Lincecum , as well as the fluid young outfielders and thirteen basemen Kevin Frandsen.
comics | cartoons | Nattowear | McFAQ

by Natto on Sep 17, 2008 12:23 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Actually

that seems rather cool and if i didn’t have a mac, I’d consider using it. The problem with me, mostly, is laziness. Everything about itunes is simple to a sin level and it’s obnoxiously easy for it to link with my ipod and sync without me even telling it to. We’ll see about a possible foobar when i get back home to my desktop.

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by SloIsLonelyForTheOrange on Sep 17, 2008 1:57 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

It’s all right for what I need it to do. When I was in my video editing classes I used iTunes to convert audio files to aiff format so I could dump them into Final Cut Pro. Plus it syncs up my iPod. Otherwise I use regular old Winamp for actually playing music on my lappy. The randomizer sucks on iTunes, which always drove me up the wall.

I haven’t yet upgraded either out of sheer laziness. I guess I made the right call.

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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Sep 16, 2008 10:20 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

It’s no big deal, come on.

by satyricrash on Sep 15, 2008 9:16 PM PDT   0 recs

alright, you convinced me.

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by jasomack on Sep 15, 2008 10:15 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

The man makes a convincing argument.

"While conservatives tell you 'leave things alone and no one will lose,' and liberals tell you 'interfere a lot and no one will lose,' baseball says 'someone will lose.' Not only says it - but insists upon it! ... Democracy is lovely, but baseball's more mature." BVCE supports SF Dugout and Manny Burriss.

by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Sep 16, 2008 10:21 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

eMusic for the tunes. Anapod for the transfer. iTunes FTL.

Drag and drop, suckers. Right mouse buttons. How hard is it, poindexters?

by Grant on Sep 15, 2008 10:24 PM PDT   0 recs

This
Right mouse buttons. How hard is it, poindexters?

Eugeniooooooo!!!!

by FairweatherFan on Sep 16, 2008 10:10 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Not having a right mouse button still makes me break out into fits of uncontrollable rage.

"While conservatives tell you 'leave things alone and no one will lose,' and liberals tell you 'interfere a lot and no one will lose,' baseball says 'someone will lose.' Not only says it - but insists upon it! ... Democracy is lovely, but baseball's more mature." BVCE supports SF Dugout and Manny Burriss.

by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Sep 16, 2008 10:22 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

+1

I could possibly understand getting a new mouse for a desktop, but as a frequent laptop user, I would hate having to hold down a key just to “right click” on something.

by rightcenterfielder on Sep 16, 2008 2:53 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

You don’t, you just tap two fingers on the trackpad, it’s been that way for a few years now.

by satyricrash on Sep 16, 2008 3:12 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Good to know, thanks

that was one of the things that was holding me back before I got my current laptop

by rightcenterfielder on Sep 16, 2008 3:58 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I’m so used to just using the control key now that it’s second nature. shrug.

Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.

by jponry on Sep 16, 2008 9:45 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

lol

I still have a Sansa e260 that I paid $150 for two years ago. Still ticking. Mostly just use WMP to move CDs onto it, nothing serious. And it comes with video conversion software, no worries.

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by giants9107 on Sep 15, 2008 10:33 PM PDT   0 recs

iTiunes caused the sock market crash!

by satyricrash on Sep 16, 2008 9:32 AM PDT   0 recs

NOW WHERE WILL I BUY MY SOCKS?!

by Lars The Wanderer on Sep 16, 2008 11:22 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

The economy has finally caved in under all those lost socks.

There amass been plenty of articles written this spring about the stud shortstop Matt Cain and Tim Lincecum , as well as the fluid young outfielders and thirteen basemen Kevin Frandsen.
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by Natto on Sep 16, 2008 11:34 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

it's the left ones that caused this

Leave no sock behind.

"While conservatives tell you 'leave things alone and no one will lose,' and liberals tell you 'interfere a lot and no one will lose,' baseball says 'someone will lose.' Not only says it - but insists upon it! ... Democracy is lovely, but baseball's more mature." BVCE supports SF Dugout and Manny Burriss.

by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Sep 16, 2008 12:33 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Only the Pacific Sock Exchange though..

Although it has been selliing pretty low since the depature of it’s Bonds.

The Basil Fawlty Moderating Strategy:
"We could run a nice blog here if we didn't have all these members getting in the way."
How is my adopted son almost twice as old as I am? Nevermind...Go Omar! Warm the Bench!

by WalrusMan on Sep 17, 2008 7:07 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

you can still have the list view if you want

Shuffle version is still on the new itunes.

when you open itunes go to the view tab and set view as list.

To shuffle go to control tab and click the shuffle option by song and it will shuffle the whole library of music

good luck

by krukuipandclint on Sep 16, 2008 9:55 AM PDT   0 recs

Apple:

Great computers for 13 year old girls and 55 year old women.

For the rest of us in between…

Eugeniooooooo!!!!

by FairweatherFan on Sep 16, 2008 4:16 PM PDT   0 recs

So you’re a 34 year old lady?

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by groug on Sep 16, 2008 4:19 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

A/S/L

Eugeniooooooo!!!!

by FairweatherFan on Sep 16, 2008 4:32 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Bollocks.

by satyricrash on Sep 16, 2008 4:23 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Nah.

Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.

by jponry on Sep 16, 2008 9:46 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Great for art and video editing programs. Cannot be beat for those things. Otherwise I consider them overpriced overhyped boxes of crap.

"While conservatives tell you 'leave things alone and no one will lose,' and liberals tell you 'interfere a lot and no one will lose,' baseball says 'someone will lose.' Not only says it - but insists upon it! ... Democracy is lovely, but baseball's more mature." BVCE supports SF Dugout and Manny Burriss.

by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Sep 18, 2008 7:56 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

And if that’s pretty much all you do (ie, your job) than they are the opposite of “overpriced overhyped boxes of crap.”

by satyricrash on Sep 18, 2008 8:36 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

My point exactly. Whenever I bring up “oh I’m thinking of getting a new laptop” and immediately eight people go HAY MAC. I point out (politely, I’m much nicer about this than I used to be) that I won’t be using it for video editing/art stuff, the same eight people go GET ONE ANYWAY. When I can get something for a lower price that works just fine, I will not GET A MAC ANYWAY just because the fanatic rabid cult told me to.

If I ever delve into video production seriously, I will get a powerful Mac laptop and Final Cut Pro, because FCP is amazing for video editing. It’s not on my list of Things I Must Do Before I Die. More like, Oh If I Ever Had the Money and a Real Reason To Do It list.

"While conservatives tell you 'leave things alone and no one will lose,' and liberals tell you 'interfere a lot and no one will lose,' baseball says 'someone will lose.' Not only says it - but insists upon it! ... Democracy is lovely, but baseball's more mature." BVCE supports SF Dugout and Manny Burriss.

by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Sep 18, 2008 4:40 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I use Macs because it another tool I use to create that provides me with a clearer path to allow me to create and get work done with little to no fuss. No “rabid cult” — I think evangelizing for any corporation is foolish —had to convince me of this, I needed only to use the tool for my own creative purposes. I find that my case is no dissimilar to any number of artists I continue to work with, in the fine and graphic arts, in music creation and production, in animated and live action music video and feature film production, the consensus among those of a creative mind seem to favor the Macintosh platform. I’m not saying that everyone should use Macs because of this, or that one group of users has “more important” work than others to do with their tools, this is just my perspective as an artist. Computer, get out of my way an let me work.

(And this is why I bristle when people refer to Macs as toys. If you’re going to only use them for looking at scantily clad pics of Judy Steffes in a churchyard, then whatever you use makes no difference.)

((I hate talking about this kind of shit. It’s really akin to talking politics nowadays, ain’t it.))

by satyricrash on Sep 18, 2008 5:53 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs