On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 09:03:31PM +0200, ext Laurent GUERBY wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-05-20 at 20:45 +0300, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 04:25:04PM +0200, ext Laurent GUERBY wrote:
> > > Folder approach is intuitive, shared by all reasonable apps on all
> > > platforms
> > 
> > Except for more or less every media player ever made (cf. iTunes).
> 
> Amarok is frequently cited as a free software iTunes equivalent and it
> works *exactly* as I describe: if you want it to index you can choose
> what folder(s) to index

Canola also works this way.

> It's quite easy to find people complaining about iTunes being
> a ressource hog and taking forever to scan stuff.

Sure, but stop any random person on the street, and ask them about the
iTunes UI.  See if you have the same reaction.

> And I still can't honestly believe that the developpers of media
> software want to tell their user: oh you have a 2GB card fully
> of media and you want to play it on your N800? No problem! Insert
> it then .... please wait two hours ... and no sorry you can't use your
> N800 because it's dog slow ... then there you go! How great and easy!

I use an N800 with two 4GB cards, both containing only media (and full
of same), with Canola.  Works pretty okay for me.

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