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Oct. 7th, 2006 10:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselkingThank you, Apple. You are raging imbeciles who make the most fundamental mistakes in interface design, repeatedly, and then tell me it's a feature. I hate you and want you to die. At least *Microsoft* can make comparatively useful and unbuggy software with a sensible interface. Why can't you?
(iTunes question: I have subscribed to Jonathan Coulton's "Thing A Week" podcast. It downloads nicely. Now, since it is music, I want it in the MUSIC section, so that it will play properly and I can add it to playlists and the like. It's an MP3 file. How do I get the fucking thing to treat it as an MP3? I can't even take it out of the list entirely, rename the file, change the ID3, and re-add it. Do I have to fucking decode the MP3 to WAV and put it back to make this work?)
(iTunes question: I have subscribed to Jonathan Coulton's "Thing A Week" podcast. It downloads nicely. Now, since it is music, I want it in the MUSIC section, so that it will play properly and I can add it to playlists and the like. It's an MP3 file. How do I get the fucking thing to treat it as an MP3? I can't even take it out of the list entirely, rename the file, change the ID3, and re-add it. Do I have to fucking decode the MP3 to WAV and put it back to make this work?)
Re: Agreement - and a more simple solution.
Date: 2006-10-08 07:27 pm (UTC)> you could close it or disconnect the store entirely.
You still can. Edit -> Preferences -> Parental Controls -> Disable iTunes Store.
And my solution to the podcast problem was really simple. Run CDEX (http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdexos/) on the Apple MP3s, converting them to WAV and then recoding them as MP3. There's also a code you can chenge in the MP3 file with a hex editor by going in manually, but I didn't want to bother with hex editing a binary. I then deleted the "podcasts" themselves from the Podcast section.
> Many free mp3s are improperly named or only have the names on the file
> name and forget to use tags, so you can end up with a lot of files named
> "unknown"
When I add a new file to the library, I open it up in Recently Added (Sort By Date) or a custom "last 2 days" smart playlist and make sure the ID3s are set right.
My main objection to "let iTunes organise my library" is that iTunes is stupid about naming conventions. Listen, motherfuckers, the One True Way of naming an MP3 is "[Artist] - [Title].mp3", nothing less, nothing more, with absolutely no differences in the spaces or punctuation. Why can programs from *1999* let me define the filename, but you insist on using your own twised version? And what the fuck is up with renaming the MP3s when you write them to the iPod? Bah!
(I still let iTunes organise. It just annoys me.)