The new iTunes

[Sable]

WinAmp is great for music, plays more or less every audio format under the sun, has a CD ripping module based on LAME and syncs with some iStuff. UI takes a little getting used to but other than that, brilliant.

[The Lone Rider]

Yeah I know about audio technology. Professional sound engineer for many years.

Just had no idea what I was getting if I purchased from itunes.

[bogan]

WinAmp is great for music, plays more or less every audio format under the sun, has a CD ripping module based on LAME and syncs with some iStuff. UI takes a little getting used to but other than that, brilliant.

So other than a few problems with the UI WinAmp is good? That was pretty much my evaluation of it the last itme I used it too. Since the UI is the only bit I deal with, that is kind of important to me, which is why I've gone with the better UI which is iTunes. An of course it also does all the other things I like suck as organising my library and syncing with my ipod, playing all the formats I can throw at it...

The funny thing I've noticed with the iHaters, they are just as mindless as the iFollowers when it comes to defending their position

[SMOKEU]

Winamp is great, I like the old skool skin that they've been having for the past fuck knows how many years. It's a light program with a small footprint and no bloatware.

Music can be obtained here.

[AllanB]

I've had no issues with I-tunes song transfer to non Apple phones. I've my i-tunes set to convert to MP3.

What could be easier than fireing it up, searching for the song you want and then paying piss all for it?

[SMOKEU]

What could be easier than fireing it up, searching for the song you want and then paying piss all for it?

Downloading the free torrent, otherwise you have to work for your money (I'm assuming), which is a whole lot harder than torrenting. Also, it's too tedious to download a song or an album at a time, that's why all those free discographies are the way to go. Get hundreds of songs in one hit.

[Sable]

Taking a single song rather than an album as a whole? Plebes.

[Headbanger]

Care to reccommend better?

Copy/paste.

Select>play/play selection/add to playlist

Play all.


Surely you don't actually require mulitple layers of wankery and restrictions to get between you and your sub-standard audio tracks?

[Headbanger]

Yeah I know about audio technology. Professional sound engineer for many years.

Just had no idea what I was getting if I purchased from itunes.

Funny thing, My boss lost his laptop, work got him a new one, he installed itunes, plugged in his ipod, It gave notice that his ipod could only be synced to one PC at a time, then it " synced" to his new setup by wiping the entire contents of his iwank.

Laugh?

Oh yes I did, Thats what you get when you buy into the apple way,, Even funnier was that he was looking to get the songs that made up his playlist for his wedding, All gone now lad, start over.

Ispank was destroyed with a heavy hammer and remnants thrown in the wastebasket.

[Usarka]

Funny thing, My boss lost his laptop, work got him a new one, he installed itunes, plugged in his ipod, It gave notice that his ipod could only be synced to one PC at a time, then it " synced" to his new setup by wiping the entire contents of his iwank.

Laugh?

Oh yes I did, Thats what you get when you buy into the apple way,, Even funnier was that he was looking to get the songs that made up his playlist for his wedding, All gone now lad, start over.

Ispank was destroyed with a heavy hammer and remnants thrown in the wastebasket.

But apple is so awesome and i love it cause it's shiny and new and i have to buy a new one every 8 months else everyone thinks I'm stink!

[Scuba_Steve]

Funny thing, My boss lost his laptop, work got him a new one, he installed itunes, plugged in his ipod, It gave notice that his ipod could only be synced to one PC at a time, then it " synced" to his new setup by wiping the entire contents of his iwank.

Laugh?

Oh yes I did, Thats what you get when you buy into the apple way,, Even funnier was that he was looking to get the songs that made up his playlist for his wedding, All gone now lad, start over.

Ispank was destroyed with a heavy hammer and remnants thrown in the wastebasket.

Damm straight! we should blame Apple for a user so retarded they can't work out the message claiming everything on the iPod will be removed actually means EVERYTHING ON THE IPOD WILL BE REMOVED who would've thought ay?
While we're at it why don't we blame MS when upgrading OS's & choosing "clean install" instead of "upgrade" only to find none of our stuff left, after all the user's never to blame

[bogan]

Funny thing, My boss lost his laptop, work got him a new one, he installed itunes, plugged in his ipod, It gave notice that his ipod could only be synced to one PC at a time, then it " synced" to his new setup by wiping the entire contents of his iwank.

Laugh?

Oh yes I did, Thats what you get when you buy into the apple way,, Even funnier was that he was looking to get the songs that made up his playlist for his wedding, All gone now lad, start over.

Ispank was destroyed with a heavy hammer and remnants thrown in the wastebasket.

Most of us learn the value of backing up computer files at some point...

Though that did used to be a known issue with the syncing software I believe they have it all fixed now. Those parts were designed to inhibit the sharing of music to people who had not purchased it, which is given less of an emphasis now... and they did put in warning messages...

[Kendog]

We swapped onto another computer recently and didn't lose all our songs in iTunes.
I guess we followed the onscreen prompts.

[Headbanger]

Damm straight! we should blame Apple for a user so retarded they can't work out the message claiming everything on the iPod will be removed actually means EVERYTHING ON THE IPOD WILL BE REMOVED who would've thought ay?
While we're at it why don't we blame MS when upgrading OS's & choosing "clean install" instead of "upgrade" only to find none of our stuff left, after all the user's never to blame

He went with it as it was the only available option, so lets blame Apple for giving him one single useless cunt face option.

When you use Apple, then you are forced to do things the apple way, And when the apple way is retarded (as has long been the level of retard built into itunes) then who the fuck would you blame?...santa clause?

For the record, Plenty of third party recovery installs on Windows machines have only given the option for a format and install, and fuck yes, That's a shitbag move all of its own. Whose to blame?...the fucknut who green lighted the shit software.

[Headbanger]

Most of us learn the value of backing up computer files at some point...

Though that did used to be a known issue with the syncing software I believe they have it all fixed now. Those parts were designed to inhibit the sharing of music to people who had not purchased it, which is given less of an emphasis now... and they did put in warning messages...

how many levels of backup are acceptable to get around apples douchbaggery?

wait, it doesn't matter, the same process would have happened as soon as he tried to hook into any device that wasn't his missing laptop..

Your point fails. Why the hell would anyone want their audio files wrapped in apples layers of shit, there is no single benifit of doing so.

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