Kyle;298554 Wrote: > I'm trading in my old IBM laptop for a new Macbook. I'll be running > Windows alongside OSX. All my music files are FLAC, arranged in album > folders inside artist folders, all in one large folder. Album art is > included in each album folder. They are on an external hard drive. > I've never used itunes, but should I allow it to handle my music files? > I assume I won't have any copyright problems since I have ripped all > these files from CD -- I have no downloaded music files at all. Will > itunes seek these out and catalog them automatically? Are there > disadvantages to this? What are the advantages? Is itunes also a > player? Currently I play music at work through a Soundblaster external > sound card, using musikCube.
First, yes iTunes is a Music Player. Second, IMHO iTunes likes to take over everything and control it. You might like iTunes and you may not. I think it really depends on how free you want your music to be and how little work one might want to do. Again, IMO, iTunes seems designed so that anybody with a computer and iPod can do portable music. So the program does a bunch of stuff in the background to keep things up to date and organized. This is the part I do not care for. I had some missing album art so iTunes went and looked for it. Now I have incorrect album covers and more missing album art then when I started because even thought it was the correct album art, iTunes decided it was not, so it is now blank or has a different cover then before. The biggest example of this is for re-releases that the artist had the art changed. The iTunes program seems to go on the latest and greatest is the proper fit mode as if album art where software so you need the latest version. For MS users, iTunes wants to claim all the music files as well as find all of them. So instead of having a simple MP3 identifier, all music files get the iTunes identifier no matter what music file type it is. I put up with iTunes because I have to with my iPhone. I keep iTunes and my FLAC to MP3 files on my XP box. My FLAC files are on my SC server where they are safe from iTunes. This has been my experience with iTunes. But again, this is just what I think about it. -- iPhone iPhone Last.FM http://www.lastfm.com/user/mePhone Media Room: Transporter, Vandersteen Quatro Signature, Ayre MX-R Mono Blocks, VTL TL-6.5 Signature Pre-Amp, VCC-5 Reference Center Channel, four VSM-1 Signatures, Runco 710, RAM Oppo DV970HD, VeraStarr 6.4SE Living Room: SqueezeBox Duet, Vandersteen Model 3A Signature, Two 2Wq subs, VCC-2, Two VSM-1, ADCOM GTP-870HD, Cinepro 3K6SE III Gold Bedroom: Squeezebox 3, Thiel 2.3, NAD C370 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ iPhone's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13622 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=47206
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