On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 00:15 -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > 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. The one problem i have with itunes is the complete lack of support for ogg, having a completely ogg only music collection (all ripped from my own cd's) itunes is completely useless to me. Which guts me really as i do plan on getting 1 of these mac mini's, and afaik there isnt any ogg players for mac *admittedly i havn't even looked into it, i base this on word of mouth* -- +---------------------------------------------------------+ | Glyn Tebbutt | d3c3it-linux@ntlworld.com | |--------------' http://homepage.ntlworld.com/d3c3it | | gpg-key: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/d3c3it/d3c3it.gpg | | Lisa, if we conserve the environmentalist win | | -Homer Simpson | +---------------------------------------------------------+
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