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iTunes Windows - First Impressions

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Originally posted by arn
There's a preference to change this behavior.

Try unchecking "Advanced->Keep iTunes Music Folder organized"

arn
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Personally, I love the organization feature. It organizes so I don't have to. If only iChat did that with IM logs...

Originally posted by dekator
Ah well, and downloading songs illegally is 'bad karma' ? Right Mr Guru Steve, and how are you in a position to say so. That's a little simplistic isn't it ? Well, anyway, I disagree mostly but then I'm not a member of the Steve jobs school of marketing (sorry, 'thought'). Yes, I'm also tired of religious terminology being trivialized for marketing ends.
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It may interest you that Steve Jobs is in fact a Zen Buddhist, and while I am in no way an expert in Eastern religions, Hinduism and many Buddhist sects recognize the concept of karma rather literally.

Originally posted by dekator
'Illegal' downloads are the only option for most of us and I don't think it's a bad thing.
The only good thing for corporate America is to get as rich as possible. Well, it may surprise you to hear but I don't think that's good, indeed, I don't even think it's legitimate and unhealthy if one looks at the big picture and not just one Ego.
It's good karma to share what should be available to all. It's only bad if you're praying to the god of 'infinite accumulation of material wealth' but certainly not in any spiritual sense.
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Your boss called. Your salary has been cut to zero. He hopes that you will understand and respect this decision, and that you will continue to share you hard work.

Originally posted by dekator
I believe what we over here in Europe are hoping for is a good non-american OS some time, which is most dersirable, both politically and economically.
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It's called Linux. It's from Finland.

Originally posted by iPC
You do know Bill is married to a good woman, right? His philanthropic activites jumped massively after he got married. And his donations are in the billions now. http://gatesfoundation.org/default.htm Most are to places outside of the USA. As to politicians; they are all scum, regardless of nationality. ;) The EU is to blame for the lack of iTMS for Europe. Got a nice mix of EU laws, country specific laws, and of course generic international trade laws.
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Bill Gates gave a grant to my old high school. There were conditions attached to it. We haven't forgiven him yet.

Originally posted by a_kim
But has anybody noticed that when you turn Sound Enhancer on, it kind of dampens the vocals of a lot of songs? The higher the amount of enhancement, the less vocals you hear. This doesn't happen on my Mac. I've turned Sound Enhancer off because I can't hear the vocals.
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I turned off Sound Enhancer because it makes the music sound worse. Less clear and literal, too filtered. I gotta keep it real.

(On the Mac).

I should note that Mac OS X has always had a *great* audio subsystem. I used to use Public Beta just to listen to how clear the MP3's sounded.

Originally posted by trose
w00t the same guy who was anti-payfordownload and spent $100 just ran to the store and bought an iPod on his lunch break!

Go Apple!
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He's gonna have to skip more lunches than that to afford all that :D

Originally posted by MorganX
Does it matter when it started? It accelerated when he got married and had a kid.

How much is Jobs and the Apple board and shareholders giving away? Or do you only hold the "richest" individual you can identify to a high standard of philanthropy.

The fact that they are still "filthy rich" means no rich people are giving as much as they could. We would do well to get them all to give as much as Gates has.
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Steve and Bill shouldn't have to donate anything to charity. Making personal computing more ubiquitous than television was enough of a contribution to society.
 
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Steve and Bill shouldn't have to donate anything to charity. Making personal computing more ubiquitous than television was enough of a contribution to society.
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I agree with you in principle. They shouldn't be "expected" to in our society. From a humane and civilized point of view, anyone with that much wealth when women and children starve "should" have to donate to charity.

Look at all the urban Rap millionaires. After your third Bentley, you think they can't find a nice youth center somewhere to donate to to undo the damage their music does to that community?

No one, in our current society has to donate a thing. But it is the right thing to do when you have an over-abundance of wealth in a class-based society.
 
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Originally posted by MorganX
No one, in our current society has to donate a thing. But it is the right thing to do when you have an over-abundance of wealth in a class-based society.
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We really don't have a class-based society. It's more of a continuum than a class system, economically.

That said, it's good that people donate to charity. But my point is, it's useless to deride people for not donating enough when they've already utterly transformed the face of human society for the better. And in any case, Bill Gates donates to charity quite substantially.
 
well, I downloaded it the other night. It was a tad slow, mostly for the "radio" features.. not slow as in sound quality or play back.. but when i would click something.. ages would go by before it did anything... then it would give me the loading bar... Since i wouldnt pay a buck for something i can get free.. I really will never use it :-D
 
Have been using the Mac version of iTunes at work (during long weekend work sessions) since it debuted. Loaded the new Windows version today on my kid's XP box*. It works great. I love it and, more importantly, so does my very-hard-to-please kid who, 'til now, has been a heavy user of WMP and, earlier on, MusicMatch. She made a point of telling me how much easier it was to burn CDs. Of course, setting up a monthly iTMS allowance for her didn't hurt, either. The power of bribery... :)

Great job, Apple!

* Sorry, but her school district sold its soul to Bill some years ago, and I wanted her home box to be as compatible as possible with what she would use at school (didn't want to fool with emulators and such). However, she and I have both agreed that this is the last Wintel box that my hard-earned bucks will be buying. From here on, it's Mac or nothing.
 
Folks,

Did anyone notice the iTunes 4.1 contains
iTunes-wma.icns in iTunes.app/Contents/Resources ?

Does this mean they will support WMA eventually ?:confused:
 
Great, but sluggish

I'm pretty happy w/ iTunes for Windows. I'm running a PIII 1 Ghz Dell w/ 512 MB Ram and a GeForce II Ultra. The features and interface is great, works with my keyboard buttons (Pause, Play, Previous, Next), but sluggish. Songs hiccup when changing songs, starting up a new program, or doing any CPU intensive activity. Also, my computer sometimes seems to be slightly slower than it used to be, and occassionally iTunes makes the computer freeze. Winamp was much snappier and never hiccuped, but I love the iTunes interface, and it actually works with my iPOD (Musicmatch, I'll never use you again, I hope you die forever w/ the most painful death possible). Things that bother me about iTunes: if I try to access playlist I had in winamp, when I import them it recopies the songs into iTunes so I end up w/ two or three copies of each song in my library, so I had to erase all the information to the iTunes library, and remake all my playlists manually. I had a test the next day, but of course iTunes came first. Anyways, I hope future updates that improve performance and reliability will come soon.
 
I've been glad to have the iTunes for Windows, as for some strange reason I've had a couple if my CD's that my PB Mac would spit out when I put them in. I was able to rip them in AAC on my windows box at work however and then transfer them to my mac - anyone else had this problem?

(On the upside - my Norah Jones CD which I couldn't rip with Windows, I was able to do with my mac!)
 
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Originally posted by Phil Of Mac

Bill Gates gave a grant to my old high school. There were conditions attached to it. We haven't forgiven him yet.
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What were his conditions? He probably made you set up a shrine to him in each room and kiss its feet before you used a computer.
 
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