Well. Um. Yes, you are.
The music interface works and finds the files. You can play them. The only way you have to access said files is on your computer, which is organized the way you want it to be.
What does organizing the files on your iPod give you? Does it make them play at better quality? Does it make them easier to find when using it? Does it make them be stored more efficiently and thus can fit more of them on the player? (The answers for the curious: No, no, and no.)
I hate apple because I needed to install a Quicktime update. I go to the website to download it:
Quicktime: Would you like to also install iTunes?
Me: No, thank you.
Quicktime: Sucks to be you then, cuz I’m installing it anyway!
I totally invented that! I suggested the same thing, a year before party shuffle came out. I called it “DJ mode” but the way it works is just how I described it in my suggestion.
(I don’t care if someone else also had the same idea; this is my story and I’m sticking with it!)
My main problem with iTunes (on a Core 2 Quad 2.4GHz PC with 4 gigs of RAM running XP SP3) will, two times out of three, and for no readily explainable reason, play movies like a freaking slideshow. If I want to watch Dr Horrible, I do not want to have to fuck around with the movie player interface to get it to work the way it should automatically.
Generally, the solution is to open the movie in Quicktime when this happens, but it would be nice if I could find an option in iTunes to do that automatically.
For watching movies, I prefer to use Media Player Classic (by far one of the best and cleanest running movie player prorgams out there), for music I use WinAmp (which is also what I primarily use to manage music on my iPod), and for buying music I usually use the store in town, where I even get a nifty CD and case with my purchase.
The main reason I use iTunes itself is so I can buy TV shows online. So far I’ve bought Dr Horrible’s Sing Along Blog, the third season of Bones, and the third season of How I Met Your Mother.
I love me my itunes. It sounds like a lot of the people here just don’t like the port of itunes for windows computers. A few gripes tho:
Videos don’t play well in itunes. I always ‘find original file’ and then open it with quicktime or vlc.
iTunes can’t handle many video formats (why not? vlc does just fine) and iPod handles even less (it can only play videos at a certain size :smack:). Sillyness. I should be able to choose between the convenience of just having a large video size that plays everywhere, and the efficiency of a smaller video size that takes up less of my valuable ipod memory.
It’s silly that you can burn as many CDs as you want of your music but you can’t make DVDs from the movies and tv shows you buy from the itunes store. For that matter, you can’t even burn a DVD disc just of music! :rolleyes:
iTunes store purchases should come with lyrics.
When the little (!) appears next to songs indicating that iTunes has forgotten where it put them, it’s usually extremely trivial to find them since iTunes has already organized everything alphabetically in the music folder, and has the metadata indicating the size and length of the file. It should be able to automatically find them for you.
For some reason, turning off the option to automatically play music when importing CDs doesn’t stop itunes from automatically playing mp3s that you import from your harddrive.
For some reason, not all of the metadata categories are available as criteria in the smart playlists.
Viewing the files on the ipod from itunes is pretty much useless. You can’t sort the columns.
And of course you can’t copy songs from the ipod onto the computer.
The store won’t act as a backup for store bought purchases in case of computer implosion.
DRM
Lack of wikipedia app on ipod
Everytime itunes updates, it fucks up my ipod. All the dups come back.