Comments | inkscribe: iTunes Officially Sucketh

inkscribe

iTunes Officially Sucketh

Feb 24, 2008 21:53

I need to rant. I really do.

So yeah, I use my iPod for audiobooks, most particularly SGA audiobooks.

( Would it be so $%#$#! difficult for iTunes to ... )

fuckwittery!

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inkscribe February 25 2008, 05:11:23 UTC

Ack. That's insane in a whole 'nother way. But thank you for the correction.

The thing is, other sorts of databases I've worked with allow you to define fields and field equivalencies (I don't know the proper programming term for this -- I'm a user, not a doctor, damnit! *g*) before you import, but if that feature exists in iTunes, I'm damned if I can find it.

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inkscribe February 25 2008, 06:35:35 UTC

Heh heh ... well, if that isn't a resounding note of love then I don't know what is! *g* Okay, in that case, I will not take this experience as being some sort of indication of becoming hopelessly old and therefore suddenly unable to function with technology.

Because seriously ... yes, I've managed to clean this up a lot (plus rescue needlessly wasted hard drive space -- yay!) but only at the expense of a LOT of time. Ugh! And really ... I've done this before! Databases are my friend. Clearly not this one, though.

*sighs*

wolfshark February 25 2008, 12:51:16 UTC

Where does the mac hide more music files? Cause it's eating memory on my machine as well!

inkscribe February 25 2008, 15:09:38 UTC

You know those $##@# pre-set folders they've got on OSX, the ones you can't rename/delete? (Sorry ... again, as a long-time Mac user it's one aspect of Mac that just screams "Windoz" at me ... if I wanted a default-save folder called "Documents" I damn well would have made one.)*

Anyhow ... there's that tree of folders along the left-side of any folder-window, and it probably looks like this:
-Desktop
-Home folder (in your username)
-Applications
-Documents
-Movies
-Music
-Pictures

Inside 'Music' you'll find a folder for iTunes. (This is not the iTunes application folder (it will be in 'Applications'.)

Look for: Music -->iTunes-->iTunes Music

Inside the iTunes Music folder is where you will find copies of probably anything you've ever opened inside iTunes, whether you wanted to or not.

I removed nearly 2GB of crap out of there last night -- all stuff that I already have organised and labelled as I want it elsewhere, not to mention backed up. There might be other places it's stashed stuff ... I haven't had time to hunt down other ( ... )

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joniw February 26 2008, 03:07:49 UTC

1. LOVE the sad Radek icon. LOVE!

2. as a pc user (I'm a power user and I cannot frakkin' stand the mac gui, it's way too fisher price for me).. I find itunes only moderately annoying. I don't like it... but I don't hate it either.

It seems more difficult to find certain info than it should be.. but from what you're saying, it's maybe worse on the mac side than the pc side. blech.

good luck.

inkscribe February 26 2008, 04:46:26 UTC

I've been a power-user on the PC side and frankly wouldn't trade 10 of 'em for any of my Macs. In terms of OS GUI, the PC one is still pretty similar to Mac a decade ago, so perhaps if you get ahold of an old OS7 machine you'll enjoy it just fine. *evil grin ( ... )