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offline redrum from the allman brothers band (Ireland) on 2007-01-09 14:21 [#02029073]
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anybody else having this problem?

i can't start itunes without it immediately swallowing up
all my resources. is there any way around this apart from
waiting for a fix?


 

offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2007-01-09 14:23 [#02029079]
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What on earth are you doing using iTunes?


 

offline oyvinto on 2007-01-09 14:28 [#02029081]
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word


 

offline fleetmouse from Horny for Truth on 2007-01-09 14:31 [#02029084]
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I still like good old Winamp with one of the old school
skins, like steel this amp, that doesn't suck up resources.


 

offline horsefactory from 💠 (United Kingdom) on 2007-01-09 14:32 [#02029085]
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we are winamp skin brothers


 

offline redrum from the allman brothers band (Ireland) on 2007-01-09 14:34 [#02029089]
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I got an iPod before there were winamp plugins for
transferring music to and from ipods.

I hate it.

The only thing is, I can't go back, since my music
collection is now no where near as meticulously organised as
it used to be. The only kind of mp3 player that would be
suitable would be one that has a "library" rendered from ID3
tags, has support for importing itunes XML libraries (so I
don't have to "rate" my music all over again) and whose
library doesn't function badly when faced with a huge mp3
collection (iTunes actually fares better and faster than
winamp's library does).

To add insult to injury, my ipod is, of course, dead. :/


 

offline mylittlesister from ...wherever (United Kingdom) on 2007-01-09 14:35 [#02029090]
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harsh mac-bumming session going on at that site.

it's all about winamp though :)


 

offline redrum from the allman brothers band (Ireland) on 2007-01-09 14:35 [#02029091]
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when i said "I hate it", i meant "I hate iTunes".

it runs beautifully on OS X though.. they just don't put
near enough work into their windows ports


 

offline Brisk from selling smack at the orphanage on 2007-01-09 14:40 [#02029095]
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Yeah, the windows port is incredibly shoddy. Bloated to the
max, it really shows its limitations when put next to winamp
and foobar2k.

I'm sure some decent MP3 organising tools exist on the PC by
the way. I could probably do with one too, though my current
"organised chaos" method seems to work perfectly in some
sadistic way.


 

offline oyvinto on 2007-01-09 14:46 [#02029102]
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yep, keepin' it plain. winamp lite without skin


 

offline redrum from the allman brothers band (Ireland) on 2007-01-09 14:55 [#02029117]
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i think i'll change to foobar. it looks deadly. i like the
way the user can get at the nitty gritty.


 

offline OK on 2007-01-09 15:49 [#02029164]
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foobar rules... i think theres a plugin to use ipod, i also
think its not really finished but give it a try.
foobar2000.com


 

offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2007-01-09 15:55 [#02029168]
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I use foobar - it plays all music-file types.


 

offline Phobiazero from the next Xltronic (Sweden) on 2007-01-09 16:11 [#02029174]
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try another USB-port or update your USB-drivers.


 

offline redrum from the allman brothers band (Ireland) on 2007-01-09 16:41 [#02029219]
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Thanks, but it's accessing them from across a 100mbit
network.

Just finished adding my mp3s to foobar.. it's using 50MB of
memory, more than i thought it'd use but certainly a hell of
a lot less than itunes. we'll see how it performs in day to
day use.


 

offline redrum from the allman brothers band (Ireland) on 2007-01-09 16:43 [#02029221]
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urgh. ~7 seconds per search of the albumlist.. even worse
than winamp..

i think i'll try to find a way to fix my itunes.. say what
you will, but it performs far better than foo and winamp
with a large collection of mp3s.


 

offline OK on 2007-01-09 17:09 [#02029266]
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it playa xlt radio!


 

offline redrum from the allman brothers band (Ireland) on 2007-01-09 17:14 [#02029274]
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this is actually really, really great. I was just using the
wrong "list", which is why it was taking so long to do
searches.

this is lovely stuff.

can anybody answer a few questions on its ID3 tagging stuff?
I've got it to download ID3 tags for an album, and apply
them.. But nothing happened - even after I told it to
"Reload info from files".

Any ideas?

Also, is there an ID3 editor (like winamp's)? I can't find a
way to get to one


 

offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2007-01-09 17:15 [#02029275]
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Final proof of its excellence!


 

offline lupus yonderboy from 1970. (United Kingdom) on 2007-01-09 17:54 [#02029326]
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i never had any problems with itunes till i got version 7,
having to wait 10 seconds to open the program because of
endless pointless album graphics.


 

offline The_Funkmaster from St. John's (Canada) on 2007-01-09 19:48 [#02029420]
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it works fine on my computer!


 

offline lupus yonderboy from 1970. (United Kingdom) on 2007-01-09 19:54 [#02029425]
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you're not using it right.


 

offline Ezkerraldean from the lowest common denominator (United Kingdom) on 2007-01-10 02:28 [#02029577]
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why even catalogue your music in a library? organise it in
folders. its not that hard.
and why rate tracks? surely you know how good each song is
without having to be reminded every time you run the program


 

offline Chin Bwoy Phat from London (United Kingdom) on 2007-01-10 05:41 [#02029634]
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yeah i agree with all the winamp users.

fuck iTunes.


 

offline Taxidermist from Black Grass on 2007-01-10 06:10 [#02029668]
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I never really thought that having the albums organized like
they are was very usefull either, but it has its purposes,
like being able to select all songs by an artist, so it will
even grab stuff in compolations and play them in the same
playlist, and other stuff like that. The kind of things you
wouldn't realy find usefull until you had them.


 


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