[ink]

I'm amazed with iTunes. Sure, it takes up 18% of my CPU when playing a song while mpg123 only uses 3%; but the management capabilities are incredible. My brother borrowed my iBook to make some CDs with it; in the process he had ripped quite a few tracks to the default iTunes storage place (~/Documnets/iTunes). Some of those tracks were from CDs that I own, so I moved the files over to /Volumes/Music, which is where I like to keep all the music files. Well, I had some playlists that I was going to burn to mp3cd and many of the songs had the ? icon next to them because the files had been moved. It would have been a pain to manually "Locate This Song" for each and every one of them, so I just re-imported /Volumes/Music into my Library and all the songs were updated. Then, upon double-clicking on the broken links in my playlist, iTunes matched the song information and realized that the new file location was the same song and fixed everything. That's quality engineering; I would try the same thing out with Windows Media Player under Windows if I still had a Windows box to perform such an experiment -- I suspect that it would make you go out and find all the files manually.

[Superchicken]

You know I should probably try running my computer without iTunes on some times. See how much faster it works

[Too Much Coffee Woman]

i know!

but i love itunes! it's so easy to manage the different lists.

and my windows box doesn't seem to recognize the .mp3 extension anymore. nice. i think i'll throw it in the garbage.

[Paco500]

Countdown untill KellyHogan posts how much better windows media player is.

10...9...8...7...

[hmr]

Ink: mpg123 only uses 3% on your computer? On my Pismo, it hardly ever goes below 8% ... iTunes uses 25-30%! I've just reinstalled Mac OS X, and am now running 10.1.4 (10.1 developer tools installed).

But you're right - iTunes is great. I bought a PC last year, and I have yet to find such a program for it... I'm using WinAMP, and I hate it! Windows Media Player is no good either.

[The Placid Casual]

*Deleted...no real reason, in retrospect just didn't seem like something I'd usually say...*

[ 05-22-2002: Message edited by: Marc2211 ]

[wataru]

Originally posted by Superchic[k]en:
<STRONG>You know I should probably try running my computer without iTunes on some times. See how much faster it works </STRONG>

You should also try following the guidelines and take off that monstrosity of a sig.

[iBenDVSE]

The best feature of iTunes is its price. I read somewhere that the value of an item is equal to how useful it is to you, divided by its price. In the case of iTunes, the value is undefined.

P.S
Big Sigs = bad

[MacGorilla]

I like iTunes. It isn't perfect but it makes managing mp3s a breeze.

[ink]

Originally posted by Paco500:
<STRONG>Countdown untill KellyHogan posts how much better windows media player is.

10...9...8...7...</STRONG>

And then attributes everything wrong with iTunes to Bush and 9/11.

[ReggieX]

The real trick to iTunes is to stop running top all the time and go back to actually using your Mac.

[ARENA]

Originally posted by ReggieX:
<STRONG>The real trick to iTunes is to stop running top all the time and go back to actually using your Mac. </STRONG>

Amen!!
I do all my web/graphics work sometimes with Phosothop 7, GoLive 6, and Illustrator 10 open and always using iTunes without problems in mi Pismo.
I wouldn't trade iTunes for any other player...and i've used quite a bit.

[ChaChi Boy]

Originally posted by ReggieX:
<STRONG>The real trick to iTunes is to stop running top all the time and go back to actually using your Mac. </STRONG>

You have problems downloading porn and listening to a song at the same time?

[iSilver]

i love itunes, and with the "iTunes Library Manager" it does practically all i need it to do.