Comments | sentxd: Alright I've been converted...

sentxd

Alright I've been converted...

Jan 13, 2004 12:24

iTunes is so goddamned good XD ( Read more... )

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fluffyduck January 12 2004, 17:48:26 UTC

As soon as Apple released iTunes I dropped the other two media players I'd been using, SoundJam MP and MacAmp (though they'd pilfered staff from one or the other to create iTunes, if I remember correctly). Three years later and I still see stuff I've never seen before on the visualiser.

What's Microsoft going to do about this I wonder.

Be pointed and laughed at, probably. *points and laughs* Actually, they'll probably just continue to try to keep people under their thumb with DRM and drag their feet regarding releases of WMP for Mac. Tell me you're not hanging out for Palladium and Trusted Computing! :D

sentxd January 12 2004, 20:40:52 UTC

Heh, I bet DRM will be broken before it hits the shelf. There are so many people work on countermeasures for it already. Still, I wouldn't be surprised if suddenly Windows Media Player goes through a major overhaul.

eiva January 12 2004, 18:05:39 UTC

Yes, iTunes be good ^_^

Starting encoding in AAC! 192kbps :D

sentxd January 12 2004, 20:24:46 UTC

I'm using AAC 320kbps :P

eiva January 12 2004, 22:00:30 UTC

That's overkill. You are *trying* to save space while maintaining quality here aren't you?

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sentxd January 12 2004, 20:37:17 UTC

I've never had Winamp able to play files with japanese names although WA5 displays tags correctly after changing the font. And after numerous versions they still don't support unicode properly. I gave up on WA a long time ago and I've been using foobar2000 until iTunes 4.2 came along.

As for being small and unobtrusive, iTunes has a mini-player mode though it doesn't have visualisation but I don't care about that :P

zero_sum January 12 2004, 18:53:15 UTC

love iTunes. the only thing i can't get it to do is make perfect copies of CDs. it turns then all into new compilations that won't register on the CDDB. apple stays one step ahead of the pirates there. :/

but other than that, it rawks.

sentxd January 12 2004, 20:38:34 UTC

Try Alcohol 120% for burner software. At it does is make copies of CDs and has some pretty nifty emulation options too.

zero_sum January 12 2004, 21:10:30 UTC

um... making an exact copy wasn't what i was up against... i was trying to break the copy control encryption on some of my discs... buggered if i know how. iTunes is good for importing the tracks as .aiffs, which burn fine as CDs, but like i siad, burning it as a new compilation without track names is a bummer.

sentxd January 12 2004, 21:44:22 UTC

Breaking copy control is what Alcohol does best :P
I think I have it somewhere. I can post a url if you want to try it out.

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