Re: Learning iTunes.
Basically, I think the thing here is that the kind of integration you see on Star Trek (and which people naturally desire as opposed to a clearly manual process) is very hard to get right unless you have a lot of patience, technical skill, and willingness to get your hands dirty. Which is in absolutely no way to suggest that you're some sort of technological bumpkin if you can manage without--far from it--only that vertical integration of the sort practised by Apple has distinct advantages for the user who chooses to adopt it. If you never have, then of course you simply won't see what the fuss is all about. I agree that in an ideal world, all this would be completely general and open, but in point of fact it isn't, or at least not yet. So we have the lowest-common-denominator of the file system, which works as well as it's ever worked. Perhaps one day somebody will invent an iTunes which uses the file system as the backend, I don't know. But it hasn' t happened yet. In the mean time, people (like me) who have taken Apple's word and adopted their system haven't been entirely unhappy with it while it has worked. Of course, now we see the flip side of that, the moment you try and use another player.
As for the practicalities, I need replacements for: Remote, AirPlay, playback position sync. Any ideas?
This loudspeaker won't do at night, so I'll probably be trying to sleep with headphones on. Not the best of ideas, I fancy. However, it connects just fine to my speakers and a wall plug, so I can listen from there.
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