Re: iTunes. Again.

2010-04-27 Thread H.Merijn Brand
On Fri, 9 Apr 2010 15:58:18 -0400, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 3:28 PM, wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 08:18:00PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: > >> (And no, I don't want you sorting by track name. That doesn't work for > >> classical music) > > > > Perhaps you see your

Re: iTunes. Again.

2010-04-27 Thread Timothy Knox
Somewhere on Shadow Earth, at Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 01:13:34PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > Last night, I was wondering why nothing new was showing up for a > particular podcast that I like to listen to. > > Hidden in a corner was a tiny light grey icon, which on clicking it told > me that it ha

Re: iTunes. Again.

2010-04-27 Thread Daniel Pittman
Aristotle Pagaltzis writes: > * David Cantrell [2010-04-09 14:15]: > >> Naturally, there is no way that I can see of turning off this >> wonderful feature. > > I fail to understand why people bake this sort of feature (some > way to penalize "inactive" feeds) into aggregation software. Because R

Re: iTunes. Again.

2010-04-27 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 09:40:10PM +0100, Roger Burton West wrote: > On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 09:35:35PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > >On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 05:19:27PM +, j...@jameslaver.com wrote: > >> "we know better than you how you should use our software, and we'll > >> disable any pos

Re: iTunes. Again.

2010-04-27 Thread Roger Burton West
On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 09:35:35PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: >On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 05:19:27PM +, j...@jameslaver.com wrote: >> "we know better than you how you should use our software, and we'll >> disable any possibility of using it in any other way and not even tell >> you about some

Re: iTunes. Again.

2010-04-27 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 05:19:27PM +, j...@jameslaver.com wrote: > On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 06:17:35PM +0100, Roger Burton West wrote: > > While Apple is certainly not the only company with an ethos of "we know > > better than you how you should use our software, and we'll disable any > > possib

Re: iTunes. Again.

2010-04-27 Thread Jarkko Hietaniemi
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 3:28 PM, wrote: > On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 08:18:00PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: >> (And no, I don't want you sorting by track name. That doesn't work for >> classical music) > > Perhaps you see your mistake was in trying to listen to classical music. > Steve only listens

Re: iTunes. Again.

2010-04-27 Thread jjl
On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 08:18:00PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: > (And no, I don't want you sorting by track name. That doesn't work for > classical music) Perhaps you see your mistake was in trying to listen to classical music. Steve only listens to U2 and jazz. --James

Re: iTunes. Again.

2010-04-27 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 05:19:27PM +, j...@jameslaver.com wrote: > On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 06:17:35PM +0100, Roger Burton West wrote: > > > > While Apple is certainly not the only company with an ethos of "we know > > better than you how you should use our software, and we'll disable any > > p

Re: iTunes. Again.

2010-04-27 Thread jjl
On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 06:17:35PM +0100, Roger Burton West wrote: > > While Apple is certainly not the only company with an ethos of "we know > better than you how you should use our software, and we'll disable any > possibility of using it in any other way" it does seem to be the one > that make

Re: iTunes. Again.

2010-04-27 Thread Roger Burton West
On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 01:13:34PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: >Naturally, there is no way that I can see of turning off this wonderful >feature. While Apple is certainly not the only company with an ethos of "we know better than you how you should use our software, and we'll disable any possibi

Re: iTunes. Again.

2010-04-27 Thread Chris Nandor
On Apr 9, 2010, at 05:13, David Cantrell wrote: Hidden in a corner was a tiny light grey icon, which on clicking it told me that it had stopped retrieving updates because I hadn't listened to anything for ages. OF COURSE I HADN'T LISTENED! THERE WEREN'T ANY UPDATES FOR THREE MONTHS! I think

Re: iTunes. Again.

2010-04-27 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* David Cantrell [2010-04-09 14:15]: > Naturally, there is no way that I can see of turning off this > wonderful feature. I fail to understand why people bake this sort of feature (some way to penalize "inactive" feeds) into aggregation software. Isn't *the whole point* of feeds that I can conti

iTunes. Again.

2010-04-27 Thread David Cantrell
Last night, I was wondering why nothing new was showing up for a particular podcast that I like to listen to. Hidden in a corner was a tiny light grey icon, which on clicking it told me that it had stopped retrieving updates because I hadn't listened to anything for ages. OF COURSE I HADN'T LISTE