i just installed it because i like the way you can set up the playlists and such better than how it's set up in Winamp. But after i installed it, it imported all my music, and now it's unplayable. Neither iTunes or any other programs can play my files :S
anybody know why?
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DaVince This fool just HAD to have a custom rating
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28th March, 2007 at 05:31:27 -
It probably copyright protected all your files with that law thingy they made, or something.
iTunes is crap as far as I know. Use something free and non-resource-draining, like Foobar2000.
i just uninstalled itunes and it still didn't work. Then i rebooted and now they work ...i really don't get it..but i think the bottom line is that itunes sucks...
anybody know of an audio player that's sort of similar ?
DaVince This fool just HAD to have a custom rating
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28th March, 2007 at 05:39:41 -
Not sure if they look the same, but Foobar2000? It looks simple, is simple to use, and doesn't drain computer resources. Not much visualization, but it's for playing music anyway.
Try it out? www.foobar2000.org
Oh, and it can categorize your media library in artists/bands, songs names, albums, or something custom. And there's custom (global) key binding. And some more goodies if you look around a bit.
Yeah, iTunes sucks. I generally use Winamp for music, but I prefer Windows Media Player when I'm in full screen, mostly because it allows me to use the smart play/pause/stop/previous/next buttons on the side of my keyboard.
I can't use Windows Media Player. Dunno what number it is now, it just blue screens my system after 30 seconds. I just use iTunes for music whilst working for the remote control, playlists and free radio, Quicktime for individual Aif files and VLC for video. iTunes is bollocks crap under XP.
Eviscerator. Your pretty much up shit creek here. What format were the files before import, and what are they now? Did you tell it to convert on import?
well, as i said further up this thread, things are alright now itunes just did something to the windows sound system apparently and after a reboot things were fine
I don't need my keyboard shortcuts any more.. My motherboard's wireless and has a remote with volume and play/pause etc on that. I've always preferred windows media player, especially 11.
Easy to make playlists etc. and find music and add/sort music etc. And the SRS WOW effects are pretty darn cool when used properly. The only thing it lacks compared to iTunes is that 'show duplicate tracks' thing.. oh and the ability to update iPods correctly, but you can't really blame it there
I tried winamp back in the day... was quite good but the library etc. didn't sort my music correctly and things were just harder to navigate really. I quite liked the shrinking it down to one long bar thing but even then it got in the way, even with transparency. So it's WMP all the way really for me
Winamp was alright back in the day. There's just nothing there that interests me now. Anything other than iTunes and it's organising functions (fast search, smart playlists, that eye icon etc, all within instant reach) isn't that good for my 25gb library. And then Quicktime for the export ability, something Winamp didn't do unless you wanted WAV.
Tim you use SRS/Wow effects O_o, just get a nice EQ and Amp mate! Don't destroy your music
I use Winamp and have every since I found the option that allows you to use the keyboard media keys to control it. I also use Windows Media Player 11, but again, Winamp all the way. iTunes sucks, and Macs do too, so yeah.
Apparently the Mac version is nowhere near as evil. I was just saying this morning how stupid it was that when I plugged an iPod into it so that I could take files off, it would check it, update the iPod and then happily eject it so that my file copying broke in the middle.
Thankfully there are ways around having to use it, but they don't seem terribly confident that they'll work with all models and I've been too scared to try so far.
it appears the answer to my prayers was on my computer all the time WMP11 is actually quite good, it does what i want ( http://makeawish.dk/misc/stuff/wmp11.png ) and it makes organizing stuff easy. For example, if i have a whole album, but the genres in each are different i can just drag the songs onto the ones with the right genre and all of those with the wrong genre labels are labelled correctly. This also applies for other stuff, so now i'm quite happy with WMP...who would have thought WMP was useful for anything
the playback in WMP isn't as good as in Winamp though, WMP seems to adjust the volume several times throughout a song which is extremely annoying.
I store them on a removable harddrive.
Each artist has their own folder
Each album has their own subfolder in the artist's folder
any songs by the artist that i don't have the full album for is stored in the artist's root directory.
Enque all in winamp playlist -> sort by path and filename, save playlist.
Done.
My signature is never too big!!!
DaVince This fool just HAD to have a custom rating
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29th March, 2007 at 10:07:06 -
My Music > Artists > all files that belong to an artist are there. And game music has its all own folder with some game subfolders.
If I need any more organizing, I let Foobar2000 do it.
Joe - that's what iTunes does, though automatically (drag folder(s) into iTunes). IF you have that option set, which I think it asks when you instal it.
Got mine on an external Fat32 HDD too so both Windows and OSX on my iMac can see it and my Powerbook. Lots of cables tucked away for that
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These have built-in EQ and Amp anyways so s'all good.
That must mean you're slow and laggy and suck.
