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Poster: | amosearle | Date: | Jan 25, 2008 11:18am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Anti I-Tunes |
I just don't like I-Tunes, the way it behaves, having time to sort out playlists and prevent unwanted updates... sound quality, evil corporate whores... you name it.
Some one said you can run an I pod without I tunes.
How do I do that?
I haven't had time to load the ipod much anyway, and since most of what I want on my Ipod is either on CD or something GD related not in their commercial catalog, I would be happier doing something else.
I use winamp a good but for GD. Getting that over to I tunes to put on the Ipod is a pain.
Any suggestions?
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Poster: | Scrim | Date: | Jan 25, 2008 1:30pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Anti I-Tunes |
It doesn't need any external programs. You just plug it into the computer with a USB cable, and it shows up as another drive. Dump your content into the appropriate folders (music, video, pictures, data, etc) and you are off and running.
I've been using it for over a year with no problems. Cool little unit.
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Poster: | waynecs | Date: | Jan 26, 2008 5:57am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Anti I-Tunes |
http://www.rockbox.org/
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Poster: | spacedface | Date: | Jan 26, 2008 4:40pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Anti I-Tunes |
>>>Other annoying things are quicktime, you find something in mp4 format but cannot get it into useful format without buying their software>>>
QuickTime is great, and all the media architectures are in competition so Apple is not solely to blame. My Adobe programs read read MS and Apple format, plus there's MediaCoder and Super for free encoding on Windows.
RealMedia formats are a dead end for everybody but the Player is decent. I use K-MultimediaPlayer and VLC over QT Player or WiMP. You shouldn't scapegoat Apple.
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Poster: | Earl B. Powell | Date: | Jan 25, 2008 12:05pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Anti I-Tunes |
I recently purchased a Zen Stone 2GB MP3 player, at what I felt was a reasonable price. I must say that the inability to charge the battery from a car's power outlet absolutely sucks...and the battery life of 15 hours is an out and out lie.
Back to burning CD's.
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Poster: | NoiseCollector | Date: | Jan 25, 2008 12:29pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Anti I-Tunes |
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Poster: | Nothing Special | Date: | Jan 25, 2008 12:21pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Anti I-Tunes |
foobar2000 http://www.foobar2000.org/ and
mediamonkey http://www.mediamonkey.com/ to name a couple I`ve used.
Also amarok http://amarok.kde.org/ if you`re feeling brave and want to give linux a try. You can now buy pre-loaded ubuntu(a linux distro) laptops so you don`t have to go through the daunting task of installing it yourself. http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/ubuntu?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&dgc=IR&cid=11973&lid=471885
That way you don`t have to pay Apple or Microsoft a penny. Everything`s free! (except the computer) http://www.ubuntu.com/
By the way I checked using "Harvest" by Neil Young. The lp sounds no better than the cd .... for some reason it was nicer putting it on though.
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Poster: | johnnyonthespot | Date: | Jan 25, 2008 11:48am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Anti I-Tunes |
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Poster: | NoiseCollector | Date: | Jan 25, 2008 11:56am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Anti I-Tunes |
Vinyl and tape could never come close to preservinh music exactly as it was played. You can always make a CD sound like vinyl but you could never make a record sound as good as a CD. If you want to argue about steamships versus nuclear subs, I am ready as well.
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Poster: | SomeDarkHollow | Date: | Jan 25, 2008 11:34am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Anti I-Tunes |
As for the need to create seperate playlists for each show, that doesn't bother me as it only takes a few seconds and makes cataloging that much easier. A bonus I've been using is the ability to convert MP3 files to the slightly more condensed AAC format. This is big for me as it allows me to cram that much more music on the iPod, and given that I listen primarily in the car, a slight loss of sound quality is not noticeable.
But, its all a matter of preference in the long run.
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Poster: | William Tell | Date: | Jan 25, 2008 1:26pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Anti I-Tunes; worked out fine for me... |
So, for me, it is really simple. It opens when I plug it into a USB port, I click on "add folder" and add a few lossless shows (of course, only 68, 69, 70 or 71) and it's done...a few clicks more than that in fact, but trust me, I figured this all out as a complete moron. I just noticed that the kid and wife had theirs "sync" to the ipod/itunes, so it is always doing things to their library, what's on the ipod, etc., but I avoid all of this by doing it "manually w/out sync"...
For me it works like a charm--lets me do what I want to do with it...truth is though, like NC, I am really a CD person for 98% of what I do, BUT this is great for the gym, walks, etc.
And, like SDH, though I don't, the kids do this for the car, and YES, every kind of adapter exists--they run everything off their ipods and Radio Shack adaptors, etc., in the car. Power, connt's to the car stereo, etc., etc.