People who are condescending towards others regarding unintuitive software that is a nuisance when used with default settings are really not fun-- really:Smug:
The obnoxious overzealous defence of software that is not universally enamoured... is priceless. And laughable
Get over it dude. Not everyone is infatuated with your beloved
iTunes.
YES!! Bring it Dave!! that's what i'm talkin' about!...
now, excitement over .... so peel on back to page one and you'll see that i set up a "bring it by-atches" type of challenge.. meant to simply be a fun exercise in seeing what people think iTunes can't do... and see if could show them that it can.
You're the one that bounced in spitting acid... good thing for you it wasn't a spelling bee though.
So, let's pretend i was
ever as hopped up about this issue as you clearly are and seem to think
i am...... 'cuz i'm bout's-ta destroy your gripes.. one by one.... then set them on fire....
then rape them
and then set them on fire again....
You do realize that I won't feel compelled to dig through options when I already have something that works the way I want it to. I just need a player, not a fucking music organizing jukebox
then why did you ever even try iTunes?... especially since its
marketed as a "music organizing jukebox"??
In walks iTunes--fucker is launching by itself and looks like it's open after I just closed it. I use so many programs that I will never read the manual for all of them. Seriously a music playing app should be intuitive and not even need a manual. Although I did have to read it to get a CD burned since it was not very obvious to me. The first disc I burned turned out to be mp3s when I was simply trying to burn my wav files. BTW, the version I installed (many moons ago) certainly did NOT ask if I wanted to change file extensions. Maybe the newest version is better.
when you installed it you clearly failed to pay attention to the opening prompts... it
asks you if you want it to be a start-up item and it
asks you if you want it to associate all of it's relevant file types to iTunes automatically, and it
asks you if you want it to seek out and find all the relevant file types and add them... etc etc... and it has done so since the fist version on both Mac and PC and as pretty much every other consumer media app does. I"ve been using it on both platforms and installed it numerous times on both as well. it always asks on that first launch. you likely either just clicked "ok" to each without reading, or someone else set it up. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt... i'm cool like that.
It does pay to pay attention though, and read a bit... though i never actually read the manual myself, nor has most people i think.. because it actually is quite intuitive and easy to figure out. And setting preferences for any audio app that may be used in the course of an AE doing his job is a NORMAL task.. not some gargantuan "out-of-your-way" effort like you're making out.... and the CD importing & Burning options are right there, in those prefs. it's common sense... and btw, iTunes does
not convert files you've added from your computer.. it just imports them with no conversion at all, and doesn't change anything.
Not trying to start a war since I can clearly see that James is very emotionally attached to iTunes...
wait... i thought being condescending was
bad?, lol... i'm confused..... cuz you do the "C"-thang so very well... a little bit 'o the ol' pot callin' the kettle black. my favorite.
Should I really have to change a crapload of settings just to play my audio files the way they are supposed to sound? The reality is that my clients are referencing bounces that I send to them with their Macs. I guess I have to teach all of my clients how to turn off a myriad of default settings to hear the ACTUAL mix.
Myriad... Crapload..... those are good words, but it's actually only 2.. Sound Check and Sound Enhancer, and they are in the same panel, Playback, of the preferences dialog. EQ is off by default. takes 5 seconds to disable them.
That's the thing with programs, if they leave a bad first impression, even when they improve, most people will not use it again if it has left a bad taste in their mouth.
Yes.. exactly... and since more and more people use iTunes all the time and stick with it... it's obviously not that type of app. what it is , is a simple to use jukebox, organizer, converter for the masses... that most people who just wanna listen to music can use right "out of the box" and never think twice about it.... and which the "smart, cool AE's" with big-shot internships at project studios running sophisticated programs like Sonar and Pro Tools can certainly figure out how to set-up so that all the consumer shit is turned off.... or they can just opt to use something else. Somehow though many of the truly "big-shot" AE's around the world do just fine with iTunes... surely it's the same program in Camarillo as it is everywhere else. but hey, no one cares if you use something else, least of all me.Shit, i use Quicktime as much as i do iTunes. Be Like Mike, and
Just Do It.
and yes, i was being condescending... as fuck....
this time.... and speaking truth.
for the record.. i don't work for apple and i don't care if you use or like iTunes or not.... it's just a player at the end of the day. i like it..... and this has indeed been fun.
-ish.
, lol