Comments on: iDespise iTunes* http://craigtsoandso.com/2008/04/10/idespiseitunes/ professional nerd, full time doofus Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:35:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: ben http://craigtsoandso.com/2008/04/10/idespiseitunes/comment-page-1/#comment-26 ben Thu, 10 Apr 2008 05:39:56 +0000 http://craigtsoandso.com/?p=21#comment-26 This is an issue that those of us with large music collections and iPods have faced many times. I've found two solutions that I felt were acceptable for me, personally. 1) I am a foobar user as well, I got converted a few years ago and haven't gone back since, probably only because of the ability to view my collection by file tree, so simple, so wonderful. Anywho, there is an iPod plugin that will manage to get your music on your iPod and that is about all it does the last time I used it. It's not smart enough to sync or anything like that and you can't get the album art like iTunes. Now the solution I am currently using is a RockBox on my iPod. I have always hated the way iTunes and iPods organized by id3 tags (except some id3 tags that apparently aren't readable by any other software, it doesn't matter how anal I am about tagging, things are still in the wrong place), so I put RockBox on so I could organize by file tree, like our old iRivers used to do (RIP). I've managed to find enough skins that I can get album art and it looks pretty slick. It's not perfect but it works for me. Now, as far as foobar goes, I don't visit SA much anymore but there is a really helpful foobar thread in SH/SC. I am currently using FofR's configuration and I love it. There is even a handy guide that makes configuration go really quickly. http://www.fooblog2000.com/fofr-configuration-guide. Some people LOVE iTunes and I've never understood it. I honestly can't figure it out. Not to mention the fact that Apple was inflicting Safari upon Windows users with the iTunes updater. Apple makes amazing hardware, always beautifully designed but I'll be damned if they've ever made more than just a few pieces of software that I've ever been impressed with. Longest. Comment. Evar. This is an issue that those of us with large music collections and iPods have faced many times. I’ve found two solutions that I felt were acceptable for me, personally. 1) I am a foobar user as well, I got converted a few years ago and haven’t gone back since, probably only because of the ability to view my collection by file tree, so simple, so wonderful. Anywho, there is an iPod plugin that will manage to get your music on your iPod and that is about all it does the last time I used it. It’s not smart enough to sync or anything like that and you can’t get the album art like iTunes. Now the solution I am currently using is a RockBox on my iPod. I have always hated the way iTunes and iPods organized by id3 tags (except some id3 tags that apparently aren’t readable by any other software, it doesn’t matter how anal I am about tagging, things are still in the wrong place), so I put RockBox on so I could organize by file tree, like our old iRivers used to do (RIP). I’ve managed to find enough skins that I can get album art and it looks pretty slick. It’s not perfect but it works for me.

Now, as far as foobar goes, I don’t visit SA much anymore but there is a really helpful foobar thread in SH/SC. I am currently using FofR’s configuration and I love it. There is even a handy guide that makes configuration go really quickly. http://www.fooblog2000.com/fofr-configuration-guide. Some people LOVE iTunes and I’ve never understood it. I honestly can’t figure it out. Not to mention the fact that Apple was inflicting Safari upon Windows users with the iTunes updater. Apple makes amazing hardware, always beautifully designed but I’ll be damned if they’ve ever made more than just a few pieces of software that I’ve ever been impressed with.

Longest. Comment. Evar.

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