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iTunes for Windows day 2: your impressions. (with poll)
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Its pretty sweet on my end. Im diggin AAC. 128kbit sounds pretty damn good!
The ripper is nice, and easy. The Library is pretty cool. Nicer then WMP.
I like the store, but can't buy anything, since it isnt available in Canada :|
The music 'enhancer' is nice. Sounds great.
It is a memory hog, but thats not a big deal for me.
I'll stay with Winamp 2.91 for my music playing for now.
The ripper is nice, and easy. The Library is pretty cool. Nicer then WMP.
I like the store, but can't buy anything, since it isnt available in Canada :|
The music 'enhancer' is nice. Sounds great.
It is a memory hog, but thats not a big deal for me.
I'll stay with Winamp 2.91 for my music playing for now.
mchammer187
Diamond Member
uses about 5 MB when minimized and 12 M when maxed
for me it is by no means a resource hog sure it is not as lean as winamp but i wasnt expecting it to be
i just uninstalled musicmatch jukebox, winamp and qcd player because i like this so much
prontospyder
Diamond Member
After playing around with it awhile, I like it a lot.
Fast ripping from CD and smart playlists rock! 🙂
Fast ripping from CD and smart playlists rock! 🙂
Eug
Lifer
iTunes auto-sharing is the best thing since sliced bread.
1) Installed iTunes on my desktop and imported all the files.
2) Turned on sharing.
3) All my files instantly showed up in iTunes on my Mac laptop.
🙂
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Although I can't buy anything from the store (I'm in Canada), it's still good because I can browse it and listen to previews.
Burning works great too.
My only criticism of it is the fact that the GUI and visualizations with a big window are kinda slow on my Celeron 1.4 and P4 1.6. Ie. it looks beautiful and works well, but they need to speed up the code. I suspect it's slow because they did a direct port from the Mac version, including a lot of the source code maybe? I'm thinking it needs ideally a 2 GHz P4 machine for snappiness of the GUI (although the playback will be fine on a sub-GHz machine). As for the bloat, it seems that when you first load it, it uses something like 30 MB on my machine, but then later it drops to 15 or something.
BTW, with my iPod, I like the new Music Quiz game that came in the new firmware update. It scans the iPod for tracks and then builds a quiz from it. It gives you multiple choice questions of songs, and then plays part of a track. From the multiple choice list you try to guess the song. The faster you guess the more points you get. Very cool.
But yeah, YAITT... because iTunes is awesome. 🙂
1) Installed iTunes on my desktop and imported all the files.
2) Turned on sharing.
3) All my files instantly showed up in iTunes on my Mac laptop.
🙂
Nope you're right. However, when they included this feature, suddenly a bazillion streaming sites on the net showed up, and one guy hacked it to allow downloads. The music companies freaked and a little while later Apple released an "update" which removed this feature. Too bad too, since it'd be great to stream from my desktop at home. Actually, I think I still might have that version somewhere for my Mac, but it's useless for me anyway, since my desktop with all the MP3s on it isn't a Mac. 😛
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Although I can't buy anything from the store (I'm in Canada), it's still good because I can browse it and listen to previews.
Burning works great too.
My only criticism of it is the fact that the GUI and visualizations with a big window are kinda slow on my Celeron 1.4 and P4 1.6. Ie. it looks beautiful and works well, but they need to speed up the code. I suspect it's slow because they did a direct port from the Mac version, including a lot of the source code maybe? I'm thinking it needs ideally a 2 GHz P4 machine for snappiness of the GUI (although the playback will be fine on a sub-GHz machine). As for the bloat, it seems that when you first load it, it uses something like 30 MB on my machine, but then later it drops to 15 or something.
BTW, with my iPod, I like the new Music Quiz game that came in the new firmware update. It scans the iPod for tracks and then builds a quiz from it. It gives you multiple choice questions of songs, and then plays part of a track. From the multiple choice list you try to guess the song. The faster you guess the more points you get. Very cool.
Heh. I learned a new acronym.
But yeah, YAITT... because iTunes is awesome. 🙂
Pros - Smart Playlists
- Smart management of the files (I know it's not what most people are used to, but if you look at it the way it is intented, that means with songs that you rip or download from Apple, and not song from Kazaa..., it works really well and stays really organized).
-Excellent sound quality
Cons - Memory hog
Although it's not as lean as winamp, I think this represents the future of music on the computer.
I even began to rip all my CDs to be able to manage them better
- Smart management of the files (I know it's not what most people are used to, but if you look at it the way it is intented, that means with songs that you rip or download from Apple, and not song from Kazaa..., it works really well and stays really organized).
-Excellent sound quality
Cons - Memory hog
Although it's not as lean as winamp, I think this represents the future of music on the computer.
I even began to rip all my CDs to be able to manage them better
prontospyder
Diamond Member
I think you can convert it to MP3 within iTunes after you purchase the AAC....can anyone confirm this?
[edit: after a brief search on the web - doesn't look like it's possible. Probably have to burn the tracks to CD and then convert it to MP3]
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