iTunes advice

[Jonathan Smith]

I like Apple computers for music, but I hate the way iTunes takes over and
the Apple Store keeps popping up. I dislike the way iTunes doesn't play
FLAC files, although I believe you can make it do that if you try. If you
listen to headphones there is software that sounds better too and plays all
formats.

I am sure iTunes is fine if you can get used to it.


On 8 July 2013 23:47, Carl Edlund Anderson <cea at carlaz.com> wrote:

> I think Apple would _like_ iTunes to do that, but I question whether it
> does. I've used iTunes since it was Soundjam, and it has directed
> relatively small quantities of my money towards Apple. Excepting that I
> live in a part of the world where physical media are almost guaranteed to
> get stolen in the post, I would probably never buy any music from iTunes --
> and though I now fully prefer digital to physical media, I tend to get it
> lossless from Bandcamp or CDBaby. Films and TV are another matter; having a
> small child makes taking scratch-able discs out of the equation very
> attractive in any case! ;)
>
> But even assuming I loved the idea of all my music being in DRM-rich
> 256kbps AACs, the iTMS is pretty rubbish at directing you towards music you
> might also like or even making it very easy browse around or find things.
> As an A/V platform, iTunes is pretty much OK. As a means of separating me
> from my money, it could use a lot of work. ;)
>
> Cheers,
> Carl
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jul 8, 2013, at 8:33, Jonathan Smith <smithjm77x7 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
> > It does, but I agree that it is better to get rid of it and find
> something
> > more  flexible. I  might  be a cynic but it seems that iTunes main
> purpose
> > is to direct your money in Apple's direction.
> >
> >
> > On 8 July 2013 21:25, Albert Bouchard <altbouch at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Forgive me if this answer has already been given but iTunes lets you
> >> specify where you want your files to be stored. In the preferences menu
> >> under advanced you can specify where you want your files to be kept. It
> can
> >> be anywhere you want.
> >> Hope this helps,
> >> Al
> >>
> >> On Jul 8, 2013, at 9:03 AM, Carl Edlund Anderson wrote:
> >>
> >>> On 07 Jul 2013, at 13:35 , Keith Henderson <khenders64 at YAHOO.COM>
> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> So my question...what the hell *really* controls the subdirectory
> >> structure and filename editing?  And why can't I keep my sh*t where I
> >> want/put it?
> >>>
> >>> I think the short answer is that iTunes controls this, and your desire
> >> to control the location and form its directories is fundamentally at
> odds
> >> with (what was) Steve Jobs's desire to make everything increasingly
> >> seamless and invisible. (Witness, for example, iOS ....)
> >>>
> >>> The Apple philosophy is (or at least seems to have been up to now) that
> >> you don't need to know where things "really" are (not that they are
> >> "really" there in the "file system" as such, but it's a familiar
> >> abstraction to long-time computer users). So while I can appreciate the
> >> desire of the individual to exercise detailed control over the
> traditional
> >> UNIX-style directories etc. that iTunes uses to place its UNIX-style
> data
> >> files, etc., iTunes was not designed with the interests of such a user
> in
> >> mind, and you might as well give up on it.
> >>>
> >>> For practical purposes, I think you have 2 choices regarding iTunes:
> >> either use it as-is, or not ;) and find some other
> media-organizer/player
> >> that annoys you less (though to get one that does _exactly_ what you
> want,
> >> you would probably have to write it yourself!).
> >>>
> >>> Cheers,
> >>> Carl
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Carl Edlund Anderson
> >>> http://www.carlaz.com/
> >>
> >
>