... is nice. I do like the seamless integration of the 'up next' list, easy to pick off those few songs you might not like from an album; if you like to play through whole albums like me.
... is nice. I do like the seamless integration of the 'up next' list, easy to pick off those few songs you might not like from an album; if you like to play through whole albums like me.
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Agreed, much better than the previous version.
had to install it to find out "what chu on bout willis" (Not a small package either). I see they've changed the black note to a silver one, Looks like they've simplified the operation (made it smoother/faster), cover flow looks to be gone?, & the mini player seems pretty good
Looks to be a pretty good improvement over the last in all
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Yeh, it looks like they've abandoned the wanky cover flow in favor of just thumnails for every album in the album browser. Having the 'whats next' pop out of the mini player is handy too. And having multiple columns for the song listing per album is better too. Seems they have focused on effective space utilisation; and just when I ordered a massive screen too
"A shark on whiskey is mighty risky, but a shark on beer is a beer engineer" - Tad Ghostal
Is it made by a facist cunting corporation?
It's still way too hard. One has to download special software from Apple to run it. The update tool for this wants you then to download and install everything else Apple thinks makes good sense.
You can't run multiple accounts on one PC, it insists on classifying music into things called "genres". Fuck it. Buy an Android.
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The corporation is no more evil than any other, they are however much more successful than most.
Oh no! Not downloading special software to run a new program! Though I'm at a loss to think of an easier way to get new programs?
Its gotten just as easy to untick and exclude quicktime and any other products apple wants you to have. Much like unticking chrome when downloading things from google.
Pretty sure you can run multiple accounts if you have mutliple users on your PC.
Genres is actually a handy way of browsing your music types, and if you don't like it you don't click the little 40x16 pixel button.
...next?
"A shark on whiskey is mighty risky, but a shark on beer is a beer engineer" - Tad Ghostal
Does anyone know if mp3s I pay for and download through itunes, can be played outside of the itunes software?
For instance, could I burn the downloaded album to CD? Or play the files in WinAmp? Or on my phone?
I would like to buy an album off there, but not if I can only play it via itunes software, or for a limited time outside of the itunes software.
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I won't say 100% simply because I've never brought from iTunes myself, I'll go with a 96%
But here is a Macworld article saying as much
And Apple itself also mentioning it
"All songs offered by the iTunes Store now come without DRM protection. These DRM-free songs, called iTunes Plus, have no usage restrictions and feature high-quality 256 kbps AAC encoding."
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iTunes is a pile of steaming shit and the only reason you should use it is if you have to connect with an iPod or iPhone (more proprietary lockout shit).
Not sure what the spotify client is like (or if they have one), they are a streaming music service you need to subscribe to so not all that comparable to itunes.
Seems to me like the two would work well in conjunction, listen to some albums on spotify, then buy them and keep them through itunes.
"A shark on whiskey is mighty risky, but a shark on beer is a beer engineer" - Tad Ghostal
Apart from the old DRM you need to be careful about what format it is in.
MP3 is fairly ubiquitous - it works on most devices. But some of the music on itunes is in apples proprietary format which won't work on a lot of non-apple gear.
As far as I can work out it's a lottery as to which format you get. And yes you can get programs to convert formats, but converting from one "lossy" format to another worsens the quality.
Fuck itunes.
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