Brad DerManouelian wrote:
On Jan 5, 2006, at 4:08 PM, Mike wrote:
Chris Ribe wrote:
Prefering MythMusic to iTunes takes a rare kind of insanity, perhaps.
Other than that, why?
You seriously don't know why he'd want MythMusic instead of iTunes?
Have you ever used brand name iTunes on linux? (HA HA) Have you ever
used Linux? Have you ever used MythTV? Do you understand the
conceptual 'point' of what all this stuff is and does?
-Mike
I didn't make the comment you quoted and I understand why someone
would choose MythMusic over iTunes, but not because of a lack of
functionality in iTunes which is what the original poster complained
about. I tried numerous times to understand specifically what
functionality he was looking for that couldn't get with iTunes and I
didn't get a specific response to that.
Turns out it wasn't a functionality problem at all. He was just
frustrated with OS X and switched to Linux. Again - I have no issue
with that because I know the pain of trying to do development-level
stuff on OS X when you're used to Linux. I love OS X as a front end
to my music, graphics, mail, web browsing life but I can't use it for
the games, PVR, dev part of my life. I can't even write scripts on
it. Even the commercial text editors for OS X suck.
I read his original post again and all he said was that he didn't like
iTunes. The golden question is why do we care why he doesn't like iTunes
when he's sitting there with a computer running linux? Last time I
checked, iTunes doesn't run on Linux and that my friend sounds like
'lack of functionality' right there. ;)
I'm personally interested in his success with MythTV, Mac Mini and
Linux. If I find out that that it works well for him, I might be in the
same boat and want to go buy one too. I could care less about OSX or any
of the applications designed to run on OSX. If I get one it'll be
running linux with mythtv and nothing else. But not to be too frank
about it, I've used iTunes... I personally think its inadequate and
quirky as a media management tool. The purpose for iTunes, above all
else, is for you to buy music from Apple and make Apple stock go up.
Everything else is just icing. If I were to use something like iTunes as
a media management tool for a desktop (which again, has little to do
with mythtv...) I'd be more inclined to use something that doesn't run
so badly with the size of my library much like mediamonkey. But I have
to ask, why should a mythtv list even care what I think about tools like
this?
-Mike
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