Re: Pondering a mac mini.
On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 10:26:19PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 11:43:52PM -0200, Rog?rio Brito wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> I agree with former Apple guy Bruce Tognazzini that iTunes and its
> competitors are attempts to be adhesive -- since the program doesn't
> actually sort the files in a way that any other program can follow
> (say into directories), after you spend hours and hours arranging
> things the way you like them, you're stuck with iTunes forever,
> unless you want to spend hours more re-sorting them all.
I disagree with this statement. If you allow iTunes to keep your collection
sorted (highly recommended), the files are sorted very logically using folders.
The structure is Music Root -> Artist -> Album -> Song. This structure could be
easily parsed by any number of scripts or programs.
I find that iTunes does a better job keeping my music sorted than I ever could
anyways, and if you get used to the functionality the interface provides it's
hard to see the logic in keeping everything organized manually.
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Steve Block
scblock@ev-15.com
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