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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?)
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Date: 2006-10-07 03:26 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-07 03:34 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-07 04:44 pm (UTC)So that when I look for "Jonathan Coulton" in my Music folder, I find all my music by Jonathan Coulton.
I'm thinking I'm just going to yank them out of the folder, decode them to .wav, and recode them as MP3.
This pisses me off, because it SHOULD be as simple as telling iTunes "That's not a podcast any more, it's a music file. Treat it as one."
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Date: 2006-10-07 06:11 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-07 07:41 pm (UTC)Why couldn't they just run the fucking thing off "Genre: Podcast" like EVERYONE ELSE?
Right. Ripping to wav and recoding.
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Date: 2006-10-07 07:44 pm (UTC)Code monkey not crazy, just proud
Date: 2006-10-08 08:27 am (UTC)(And while I was buying those, I picked up his other album and the EP. Well worth it for Skullcrusher Mountain and the First of May alone.)
Total cost of three albums plus one EP, including shipping: $43.00. A bargain really.
(Of course, that was American dollars. For that devalued, tutti-fruitti, play money you Canuckistanicans use, it will cost you $43.50 at least!)
Agreement - and a more simple solution.
Date: 2006-10-08 07:16 pm (UTC)I do not understand upgrades which involve fewer or less intuitive data management options, and up until this point I thought Apple was smarter than that. Why not provide a full library option along with the content specific? Y'know, like Microsoft Media Player does?
Also, have you noticed you can no longer collapse the store menu? It used to be you could close it or disconnect the store entirely.
Thanks Apple! If I didn't have an ipod I'd stop using it now.
If you download a podcast without using itunes, and store it in a separate folder, it won't recognize the file as a podcast. With some podcasts, you can even store it in your itunes folder as long as you remove the podcast genre tag you add it to your libary. I know this works for individual downloads, and it might even work for podcaster downloads, as long as you don't initially store the downloads into your itunes file.
I figured this out when I discovered when you us the "let itunes organize my library" option it automatically renames the files using the id tag info. 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" BUT itunes can only "organize" files stored in the itunes file proper. I use this loophole to ensure my freshly downloaded stuff is identified before moving them into the itunes folder.
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.)
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Date: 2006-10-08 11:13 pm (UTC)Our devalued, tutti-fruitti, play money
Date: 2006-10-09 01:33 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-11 07:06 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-13 11:21 pm (UTC)