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Re: Pondering a mac mini.



On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 23:43 -0200, Rogério Brito wrote:
> On Jan 19 2005, William Ballard wrote:
> > I think my parents would like a Mac.  I'd probably like it if I was a 
> > graphic designer, musician, or video editor.  But for a grungy hacker 
> > like me I just don't see the appeal.
> 
> One killer application that still doesn't have an Open Source equivalent is
> iTunes. It's clean way of using metadata for organazing files and
> mass-tagging files is simply amazing.

Okay, I have over 300 GiB of MP3/OGG/AAC (all ripped personally using 4
machines), iTunes absolutely CHOKES on that collection.

SlimServer/SliMP3 crunches and crunches... but does make it through.

Rhythmbox also pukes.

Windows Media Player doesn't even make it past the "Starting with a
Number"  directories.

Easytag, works exceptionally well on this collection.

> I use easytag from experimental and while it is a nice program, if it
> reorganized the "music library" in a way that iTunes does would be simply
> amazing. And having the ability of playing nice with an iPod would be even
> nicer (I know that rhythmbox is going to be an iTunes clone, but it's still
> not there).

I only use Slim* to stream all my stuff... and then XMMS or Rhythmbox to
play the stream.

> And some things are just easier on a Mac. Despite saying that, though, I
> still can't use Mail.app and feel at home with it, like I do when I'm using
> mutt+emacs+post-el.

I use Evo now. got all the junk down.
-- 
greg, greg@gregfolkert.net

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