Eric, I'm an iTunes user, but am definitely not in love with the
program for many of the reasons you mention. My big gripe is just
needing to play a file and not wanting that file to be sucked into the
iTunes library where I may never find it again until Party Shuffle
decides I should hear it. I didn't really even understand that iTunes
was doing this until over dinner one night, i started hearing a
voicemail I received over two months back.
Although the solution is far from elegant, I've found that I could
create a smart playlist which gathers up all the voicemails. I then
go and delete everything in the list. OK, ideally I could disable
iTunes from auto importing everything it plays, but the smart playlist
seems to be the best solution for now. VLC is great, but I can't
lower the volume far enough -- I know that seems silly, but as I'm
almost always on the phone and have VO babbling at me, I like to keep
my music turned down very low. In iTunes, I can do this very well,
but VLC seems to mute the music if I go below a certain threshold.
Maybe this is fixable, VLC has tons of preferences that are way beyond
me, but I haven't figured out how.
Certainly it's frustrating, but I don't think iTunes should be totally
written off yet. I miss the ability to play a specific folder VS a
playlist though, so if I could figure out my VLC volume problem, I
might use it as my primary player. Winamp is the only Windows app I
really really miss since moving to the Mac.
Steve
On Jun 6, 2008, at 3:37 PM, erik burggraaf wrote:
The vm messages are my latest itunes nucence. For some reason they
don't preview in quicklook, which would be wonderful. I usually only
just need to right down a date or time or ocasionally a phone number,
then I want the message to disappear. This saving, opening in itunes,
adding it to my library, listening, deleting, and removing from
library, it's the long way around.
I'm home this weekend, and one of my projects is going to be to sort
out my media. I need to burn a tonne of stuff, and i'm going to move
all my albums onto the macbook so I can take them back to Toronto with
me. I've decided I don't want 1200 albums librafied, but what really
sparked me off was when I accidentally hit the rong button on the buss
the other day and over 600 audiobook tracks got slammed into my itunes
library. Oh my goondness it was rather a large mess, and only myself
to blaim.
Best,
Erik
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On 6-Jun-08, at 8:58 AM, Babcock, Michael Alex wrote:
you know you could do what i do for voicemail messages, that's save
the vm messages, and not open them yet just press space to listen to
them in the quick look. Also you could select all files in
audiobooks, and do command I and tell it to skip tracks. I am cool
with vlc, but one thing i use it for is .avi files and also i dont
know how to set up play lists in it.
On Jun 4, 2008, at 8:48 PM, erik burggraaf wrote:
Well guys, it's byebye itunes for me. I will probably use it as a
pod catcher, since it works quite well in that regard, but it's VLC
for me from now on. I'm sick of it importing my voice mail
messages and audiobooks into my music library, and all the other
rediculous clouning around it does just to listen to music.
Glad that's over... Fwew!
erik burggraaf
Certified Technician
Assistive Computing LTD Support and training
Sales department: 888-828-2445
Support and Training: 888-255-5194
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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