At 10:50 AM 11/24/2004 -0800 Doug Pensinger wrote: >Does anyone else hear use Itunes extensively? I was wondering if anyone >else has noticed some of the idiosyncrasies/problems that I have. A short >list: > >1. Shuffle. While I think that over a long time span the shuffle is >essentially random, I've noticed that over a shorter period it seems to >emphasize certain albums/artists (I'm working with a 4-5 thousand song >database).
The shuffle order appears to be set every time you restart Itunes. For example, if you manually select a song to listen to, the shuffle will bring up the subsequent songs up in the same order as when you last listened to that song with Itunes still open. >2. Clipping songs. Sometimes songs are cut off before they finish >playing. I'm pretty sure the same songs are effected time and again - in >other words it's not a random problem, but I have no idea why these >particular songs have problems. I am careful when I record my albums to >refrain from all other activity on the computer so I don't think that I've >corrupted the files, but I suppose that automatic stuff could be >interfering. Have you tried comparing the Itunes track length with the length of the track as listed on the original CD? I discovered that one or two of my songs were accidentally corrupted that way. >3. Categorizing. The program has a real problem categorizing albums as >compilations. It almost never categorizes the real compellations properly >but often categorizes regular albums as compilations. Very irritating! >You can select weather or not it is a compilation when you record it but >it seems to me that this should be pretty easy to automate in the software. The Itunes database of song titles is very buggy - especially in comparison with the Windows Media Player database. I have noticed numerous glaring errors in the database... I don't know if that is related to the compilation problem you are having. I listen almost exclusively by Aritst or by Genre or by Rating, rather than by album, so I've never noticed that problem. JDG _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
