Hi Ricardo. My main complaint with ITunes is that id does "manage" my media. I don't want it or any player to do that. For example, I have thousands of audiobooks here on a hard drive, many of which have broken or missing tags. Same with music. I have a hole collection of flac files, many of which would have to be retagged. My old roommate spent over 3 months retagging his music collection so that it would go into ITunes properly. I don't like the overhead it blows on large collections. I don't like the 20 and 30 step processes required to do things like burning a CD. I can't stand the issues like the one that started this discussion where Apple has decided they don't want to support flac or some other type of media and forced you to go out and do some fiddly-assed workaround to get your flacs into your library. I have a lot of the same complaints with windows media player and other players. I don't want a media manager. If Itunes would let me turn off it's library and play an mp3 without giving me any crap, you'd never hear me complain. Other players don't force you to import your files in a certain way. It's optional. You can do it if you want, but if not, you just get on with the music.
Best, Erik Burggraaf Follow my series of articles about setting up a small business through the ontario disability support program at http://www.erik-burggraaf.com/blog Ebony Consulting toll-free: 1-888-255-5194 or on the web at http://www.erik-burggraaf.com On 2013-05-17, at 9:40 AM, Ricardo Walker <rwalker...@gmail.com> wrote: > Lol, > > I know I'm probably going to be in the minority here but, I honestly don't > have many problems with iTunes, Especially on the Mac. Do people not like > iTunes because it forces you to handle your music in a specific way you > aren't accustom to or, want? Or is there other reasons. Because for me, > once I learned how iTunes treats your media, and how it goes about organizing > and such, I don't find it any more cumbersome then any high end music app. > For example, Windows media player. > > Just curious. :) > > Ricardo Walker > rica...@appletothecore.info > Twitter:@apple2thecore > www.appletothecore.info > > On May 17, 2013, at 8:04 AM, Ray Foret Jr <rfore...@att.net> wrote: > >> Of course, about the only thing good about ITunes is it's .m4a format. >> >> >> Sent from my mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind >> built-in! >> Sincerely, >> The Constantly Barefooted Ray >> Still a very proud and happy Mac and Iphone user! >> >> On May 17, 2013, at 6:54 AM, erik burggraaf <e...@erik-burggraaf.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi Christine, >>> >>> Sorry, I can't help being a bit sarcastic when it comes to ITunes. I >>> really think switching to vlc is good advice. I just can't stand anything >>> about ITunes. It seems to have worked for you too, so hopefully we're good. >>> >>> As far as getting the music onto your phone, there's dropbox, ICloud, that >>> program that was free for a weekend a few weeks ago which let you browse >>> your phone in an explorer on your computer… ITunes is not the tour de >>> force it used to be. Apparently I'm not the only one who thinks it's >>> awful. :) >>> >>> You do need to install flac support for your I device though if you want to >>> play the tunes on your phone without converting. I haven't checked out >>> ways for doing that in a couple of years, but some one probably has an >>> answer. >>> >>> Have fun, >>> >>> Erik Burggraaf >>> Follow my series of articles about setting up a small business through the >>> ontario disability support program at http://www.erik-burggraaf.com/blog >>> Ebony Consulting toll-free: 1-888-255-5194 >>> or on the web at http://www.erik-burggraaf.com >>> >>> On 2013-05-16, at 8:05 PM, Christine Grassman <cgrassman1...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> So if I download and install VLC, how does this impact my pre-existing >>>> iTunes library? Does this also mean I will not be able to get these tunes >>>> onto my iPhone? >>>> >>>> Christine >>>> >>>> On May 16, 2013, at 7:57 PM, erik burggraaf <e...@erik-burggraaf.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Flac stands for free lossless audio codek. They ar compressed audio >>>>> files that can be decompressed to the exact specification of the original >>>>> audio. No quality loss. >>>>> >>>>> Apple doesn't support these as far as I know which is a great loss. You >>>>> can do one of two things. The Approach I recommend if you really must, >>>>> is download fluke and add Flack support to both ITunes and Finder. >>>>> >>>>> The other approach is to download flip for mac and install quicktime and >>>>> then presumably it makes flac happen, but fluke is so easy when it works >>>>> that I can't see why you'd want to bother. >>>>> >>>>> The third option which is what I recommend, is to ditch ITunes and get >>>>> VLC. >>>>> >>>>> Hope this helps, >>>>> >>>>> Erik Burggraaf >>>>> Follow my series of articles about setting up a small business through >>>>> the ontario disability support program at >>>>> http://www.erik-burggraaf.com/blog >>>>> Ebony Consulting toll-free: 1-888-255-5194 >>>>> or on the web at http://www.erik-burggraaf.com >>>>> >>>>> On 2013-05-16, at 7:40 PM, Christine Grassman <cgrassman1...@gmail.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Has anyone ever heard of these? I was just sent some music which has >>>>>> flac as an extension. 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