Rug Burn Junky on 21/2/2006 at 18:22
Quote Posted by Andruha
If you don't see it yet, I'll put it so that you can understand: one CAN write complex queries.
So, what you're saying is that the solution to their inability to have any sort of sophisticated query, is to have to take the extra time and effort to spaghetti program your own queries?
And you fail to see why this is a halfassed, inelegant solution to something that is quite plainly a problem with the software itself? You're not helping yourself here by being an apologist.
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I have to make it clear: when I wrote about batch operations I meant manipulating files if needed. In no way would I use batch operation in the way you suggest (for reasons I described earlier).
OK, that's cute and all that that's what you meant, but that still glosses over the fact that it's a distinct limitation of the software.
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I'll skip the rest of your post as it pure personal attack.. I will drive further while you peddle enjoying your ignorance.
It's not simply a personal attack: I'm derisive towards you because you're being simplistic, and, for some unfathomable reason sticking your fingers in your ears and ignoring demonstrable flaws, instead of just saying: "yeah, hmmm, it could be improved remarkably."
Proving that one can waste their time and energy doing things other ways, or saying that you personally don't have need for these features doesn't, in the slightest, change the fact that they fucked 'em up in the first place.
Hell, Winamp and most other players/organizers have their share of flaws too, but for some reason, you don't get the fanatitards crawling out of the woodwork to kneejerk defend them.
trevor the sheep on 21/2/2006 at 18:54
Quote Posted by Stitch
And have they yet completely eradicated all dead space between MP3s? I know you can do a very small crossfade to give the illusion, but it's a kluge.
Like i said back there
the way to go is Foobar
why don't you listen.
ZylonBane on 21/2/2006 at 18:56
I think the lesson we've learned from this thread is that large music collections make people crazy.
Briareos H on 21/2/2006 at 19:07
I agree that most media players suck, anyway. There's always a specific problem with each of them and managing more than 500 files is always a pain in the ass.
Quote Posted by ZylonBane
I think the lesson we've learned from this thread is that large music collections make people crazy.
[superiority complex]
Not when using specifically home-made tools for managing files under linux.
[/superiority complex]
Stitch on 21/2/2006 at 19:07
Quote Posted by ZylonBane
I think the lesson we've learned from this thread is that large music collections make people crazy.
Or people with small music collections are antisocial trolls, take your pick.
My music collection is huge because MP3s now are generally the only way I listen to music. Who wants to fuss with CDs when you can just plug in your MP3 player or load up itunes? I probably have close to a thousand albums so the MP3 revolution has been a bit of a godsend.
MorbusG on 21/2/2006 at 19:10
I've searched from the 90's -> 2kx a decent program for ripping/encoding/tagging/organizing/playing mp3's. I have many cd's which I wanted to convert to mp3's and searched most of the available rip/encode/tag/organize -programs throughout that timeperiod to fill my needs. Going through the produced mp3's file-to-file was out of the question, since a few weeks worth of them. I never was fully satisfied with the many programs in Win/Nix environment I stumbled upon. Insufficient error correction on rip, insufficient encoder quality with hi-fi speakers, insufficient/broken/inaccurate tags, badly organized hierarchy creation, etc. This search went on until I found iTunes, learned how it works, and today I think I have found the program that meets my needs. I'm pretty sure you can do pretty wicked "smart" playlists with it. Just dig a little deeper. :)
Briareos H on 21/2/2006 at 19:12
GRip is pretty decent and has become very mature. Did you try it out ?
MorbusG on 21/2/2006 at 19:16
I did give credit to Grip in my post and then the forum logged me out and I've must edited it out for some reason. Anyway, Grip (cdparanoia for ripping) is (and has been for a long time) a very decent program in my opinion.
doctorfrog on 21/2/2006 at 20:21
Quote Posted by Rug Burn Junky
I was happy doing that til I got married and my MP3 collection was suddenly overrun with Enya and Disney songs.
Rollin' with Ice Cube and following it up with Chim Chim Cheree is kinda a buzzkill.
iTunes, and I'm guessing many other music management programs, create a different library for each user account in Windows XP. So there isn't any need for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang to get mixed in with Cop Killa unless you all use the same user account.
On the other hand, "Step In Time" is the JAM.
Aja on 21/2/2006 at 20:31
Quote Posted by Stitch
My complaints with itunes are fairly minor, really. I'd love some sort of normalization device that would scan the next song and bring it up or down to the current level. I'd also like a more robust system for creating my own radio station, where I can weight certain songs to be played more frequently via a value other than the song rating.
And have they yet completely eradicated all dead space between MP3s? I know you can do a very small crossfade to give the illusion, but it's a kluge.
You can download normalization and gapless playback plugins for winamp. They work fairly well, and unlike Foobar you don't need a degree in software engineering to install them.
