Graciano don't get me wrong here. I appreciate the advice. I just fail to see how the music I choose to put onto my mobile device should affect my entire music library and my ability to easily click play and hear an album.
The problem I have is that I shouldn't have to "learn" how to use a music player. Everything that I want it to do should be obvious to me. There should be no reason for me to have to research how to make it do something. Nor should it like take three hours to download and install, and when I select Paypal to pay for the downloads, it should like, work, and everything. That's mainly what pissed me off about it.
I could say the same for most windows applications and functions. I had to go through hell to half-ass a network with Win7/WinXPSP3 computers last night and there are still anomalies.
Normally I don't mind iTunes, but this morning I am trying to sort out 3 Audio books (Trilogy) for a friend and it keeps shuffling the bloody tracks into alphabetical order. I really wanted this to be a 5 minute job and not having to change every single track individually (117 of them). Bah! * Sorted.
Itunes is pathetic. I dont see how something as popular as the Ipod is accompanied by such a trash piece of software. I just use Sharepod.
Do you remember MiniDisc players? Do you remember the software Sony bundled with them and expected people to use? Now, iTunes might be problematic, but THAT software was utter garbage (I mean it!) Not convinced, Sony then started to bundle stripped down versions of the same thing with their mobile 'phones. Argh!
Are you referring to Sonicstage? I used to use that with my MD player back in the day. I had a habit of taking Cd's from every person I met and I built a huge huge music collection. One day my computer blue screened when running a game, upon reboot disk checker truncated the database file for Sonic stage, which totally destroyed the library, the files were still physically there as they were taking up disk space but were completely inaccessible without that database file intact. I was devastated, I bought a 1GB iPod shuffle (the old stick ones) soon after that and haven't looked back since, iTunes always seemed to be a blessing after that fiasco.
Didn't Sonicstage also have some kind of stupid early form of DRM? You could only copy files from a CD or in some proprietary format. Or am I thinking of something else?
Yeah you could only encode to Atrac format and then that was linked to your MD player. You could transfer Atrac to your player and back again but only if the contents matched what was on your PC. People complained about being limited to one MD player and so sony released an update whereby each song had a transfer count of 3. So transferring to one MD player would reduce it to two but if you deleted the song off that MD player using Sonicstage the count would go back up to 3. Clever but annoying. In terms of layout, sound reproduction and functionality I really liked Sonicstage but I stopped using it in 2003 and I never saw what it evolved into after that.
You know there's something wrong with a piece of software when just the thought of installing it onto your new Win7 system makes you physically ill..
Bah you young uns, I remember when 486s were common and low end Pentiums were the power computers of the age, when 133Mhz was what people were saving their hard earned cash for. I remember when it took a good 30 minutes to read a music CD and then about 20 minutes to encode a single .WAV file to .MP3 (so about 4 to 5 hours for the whole CD) and we had to use DOS commands to encode then. Although in those days MP3 players weren't around so you were just filling up your several hundred megabyte harddrive with files which you could play in Windows 95 hoping that you had enough system resources left over to do something useful...
I just used the good old walkman to listen to music back in those days..lots of my brother's tapes like Madness, he had CDs by then but I couldn't be bothered with all the hassle of putting them on the 486, just listened to the walkman while playing Doom instead :nod:
you make it all sound so dramatic for the kids don't you:lol: uncle jamtex is taking the piss. Mp3 Strip it! and audio catalyst were good choices for visual UI, although they often ran batched files in the background. it did take very long and only pcs could play them back (amiga too i guess) but that was fine as long as you had decent speakers
You had it easy, kid. Back in the day, music came on wax cylinders from Edison Records, and if you wanted to make a copy you would play the cylinder with the phonograph's horn right up against the horn of a dictaphone, and hope it would be loud enough to pick up anything at all.
In My day we had windows 3.1 it worked like it should and regedit didn't fuck the OS. We had dial up and dag nabit we liked it esp when nobody could call us.
Yea the part about the not getting calls was good now we still get all those bloody phone calls when I'm in the middle of veiwing some very sensitive documents that require my utmost attention. back then people knew not to ask the logic being if the modems on don't ask but now theres no way they could know that you were "busy" so their not sure and they ask, now you've gotta make the decision: Lie to a friend/relative, or tell the truth and freak them out. Personally I'm an honest guy and I get a lot of weird looks at family gatherings but that's what the age of broadband has reduced this once fine world to.
Now i used to use my Sony MiniDisc player with SonicStage and i hated it even more than i hate iTunes, took an age to convert and then transfer songs. I remember once it messed up all my songs in its library soo bad and never managed to fix it before i got an Ipod. it used to list each song within its appropriate album and that meant i could easily drag an album over and it would sync with my MiniDisc and i could then browse by albums on my player but one day it listed all songs individually then sorted them alphabetically by song name making it a total pain in the ass to copy whole albums over to my player.
