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Re: New Itunes ver 8 looks really good

Author: John Morton
Date: 2008-09-15 16:56

To me, each version of iTunes is less interesting than the one before. I can appreciate the convenience of products that do exactly what you want. iTunes/iPod try to do that creating demand for what they have decided to offer us. Personally I only want a portable mass storage unit for my music, which is mostly on CD, and some gleaned from the web. After using and observing computers for several decades I don't feel it's too much to ask for a smart portable drive with normal features: file transfer in both directions and a seamless navigation interface.

The software and hardware are well integrated, but crippled when compared with the standards of the computer world. They are more in the tradition of consumer electronics, which continually (annoyingly) reinvent features, controls and interfaces.

My iPod was a gift. Here is my setup: CDs go into iTunes. Each has to be also a playlist just so I can alphabetize them. Everything is mp3, for compatibility with the rest of the world and with my transcription software. The contents get backed up to a directory on my [Mac] computer that is outside of iTunes via a fine, free program called podUp. I mail small mp3s to other musicians for rehearsals etc. by dumbing them to the lowest resolution (another good free program called Max). In the car I use a $30 transmitter that sends to 87.9 on the car radio.

John

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