Re: Winamp going to heavens on 20th of December 2013
I have heard good things about Foobar but haven't tried it, so can't comment on that debate, but to be honest all this Itunes import into library crap, retag this, restructure that, and sink the other is needelss over complex, and just seems like Apple making people run through hoops unless they buy from the mighty Itunes store or use the almighty Itunes to wrip their cds.
As Cw said, I don't really care! about all these tags and classifications, I prefer to just bang stuff in directories myself and genre classify them, indeed in that big heap of 700 gb I mentioned I can find any audio book, any podcast, or any peace of music I own in seconds simply because of the way I've organized them, (and again as Slj said, a person who doesn't know where there music is on their hd isn't using their computer properly).
Every single thing I own is configured to p lay in exact order, heck, if I play a big folder such as my final fantasy series folder it will play all the soundtracks from 7, advent children, 8, 9, 10, disidia in exact release order since that is how I've renamed the files.
That! is why I personally find all this library stuff to be unnecessary work for little to no bennifit, and indeed given that many of my audio books are individual tracks, or are in series folders in chronological reading order, would actually be a step backwards.
i wouldn't be as hard on apple if there was a choice, if indeed it could! work like winamp if you want it, just bang in a folder and play it, but that's not what Apple have done, indeed if Winamp ever becomes unusable I'll likely switch to Foobar before using Itunes just for ease of structure.
I agree the library system would make importing to my Iphone easier, but that's about all the bennifit I see, heck, owning a 1tb passport drive even makes cloud storage rather superfluous for me, albeit I can see the bennifits to someone who owns many different devices rather than just one pc, one laptop and one Iphone.
Regarding the ftp thing, It's something I'll likely have to look into, though as I said I've found a way to force Itunes to do what I want by creating a playlist instead of a folder then copying the files into that playlist and deleting it with all contents when I'm done.
it's irritating, but not impossible, and a basic usb system where I could just copy folders across and then play them better.
Again, if people use Itunes for everything, just as Apple wants I imagine there isn't a problem, but frankly if Apple want me to use something it should have the same capabilities as what I've already got plus be better, and Itunes just plane doesn't.
That is also why i'd nev er buy something through Itunes either, unless I could get it out! of itunes and onto my main hd where I could play it in whatever program I chose (probably winamp), or copy it onto a usb or whatever.
URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=156409#p156409
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