Re: Setting VLC as the default player for MP3-files...

[David Poehlman]

Eric, you are looking at this the rong way round.  ITunes is the  
ipitomy of ease of use for the average and even highly technical user  
in many ways and your approach is something I cannot fathom.  I did nt  
get into serious audio till I got ITunes for that reason.  I can burn  
a cd in ITunes simply by selecting the audio I want on it and click  
burn or click burn select the audio and click burn again or something  
like that.  I can rip a cd in much the same way but if I want the  
whole cd, I can just say import and it will import it and stack it  
nicely into my library.  I can make an ITunes play list if there is  
too much on my hd to fit on my nano.  I can use a creative zen if I  
want to but then I don't want to because the nano 4g is so  
accessible.  I use a card for my victor reader stream.  I copy the  
stuff I want on the card which by the way is strangely set up  
according to the stream requirements.  I have to say though that the  
ITunes/IPod interface is the one I use most often because it does so  
much for me and is so easy to use.

Capitalism only works if you have customers and they must be doing  
something right because they have customers who *choose* apple over  
everything else even though players have been around for a long time  
before ITunes ever came out.  Microsoft keeps failing in this  
department and creative is loosing ground and is pretty far behind  
apple so we must assume unless the consumer is really stupid tha with  
all the choices out there, they are choosing what they want.