iTunes advice

[Carl Edlund Anderson]

I think Apple would _like_ iTunes to do that, but I question whether it does. I've used iTunes since it was Soundjam, and it has directed relatively small quantities of my money towards Apple. Excepting that I live in a part of the world where physical media are almost guaranteed to get stolen in the post, I would probably never buy any music from iTunes -- and though I now fully prefer digital to physical media, I tend to get it lossless from Bandcamp or CDBaby. Films and TV are another matter; having a small child makes taking scratch-able discs out of the equation very attractive in any case! ;)

But even assuming I loved the idea of all my music being in DRM-rich 256kbps AACs, the iTMS is pretty rubbish at directing you towards music you might also like or even making it very easy browse around or find things. As an A/V platform, iTunes is pretty much OK. As a means of separating me from my money, it could use a lot of work. ;)

Cheers,
Carl

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On Jul 8, 2013, at 8:33, Jonathan Smith <smithjm77x7 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> It does, but I agree that it is better to get rid of it and find something
> more  flexible. I  might  be a cynic but it seems that iTunes main purpose
> is to direct your money in Apple's direction.
> 
> 
> On 8 July 2013 21:25, Albert Bouchard <altbouch at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Forgive me if this answer has already been given but iTunes lets you
>> specify where you want your files to be stored. In the preferences menu
>> under advanced you can specify where you want your files to be kept. It can
>> be anywhere you want.
>> Hope this helps,
>> Al
>> 
>> On Jul 8, 2013, at 9:03 AM, Carl Edlund Anderson wrote:
>> 
>>> On 07 Jul 2013, at 13:35 , Keith Henderson <khenders64 at YAHOO.COM> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> So my question...what the hell *really* controls the subdirectory
>> structure and filename editing?  And why can't I keep my sh*t where I
>> want/put it?
>>> 
>>> I think the short answer is that iTunes controls this, and your desire
>> to control the location and form its directories is fundamentally at odds
>> with (what was) Steve Jobs's desire to make everything increasingly
>> seamless and invisible. (Witness, for example, iOS ....)
>>> 
>>> The Apple philosophy is (or at least seems to have been up to now) that
>> you don't need to know where things "really" are (not that they are
>> "really" there in the "file system" as such, but it's a familiar
>> abstraction to long-time computer users). So while I can appreciate the
>> desire of the individual to exercise detailed control over the traditional
>> UNIX-style directories etc. that iTunes uses to place its UNIX-style data
>> files, etc., iTunes was not designed with the interests of such a user in
>> mind, and you might as well give up on it.
>>> 
>>> For practical purposes, I think you have 2 choices regarding iTunes:
>> either use it as-is, or not ;) and find some other media-organizer/player
>> that annoys you less (though to get one that does _exactly_ what you want,
>> you would probably have to write it yourself!).
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Carl
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Carl Edlund Anderson
>>> http://www.carlaz.com/
>> 
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