On 10/01/2010 20:22, Rob Malpass wrote:
> Hi all
> Do any of us have ipods? If so, has anyone found any decent music
> library software for them?
> I migrated from a 20Gb IRiver to an 80Gb Apple ipod last year and in
> that time my 8500 40 odd Gb library has caused me no end of problems
> with itunes running under windows. This gives me 2 options:
> 1) The baby and the bathwater - get a new mp3 player and say farewell to
> apple and M$. In theory (cash permitting) I have no problem with this but...
> 2) I quite like the ipod itself (touch wood) I've had very little
> trouble with it. It's the software that's the problem. For example, you
> would think "import library" would be a pretty simple thing. In my case,
> for no apparent reason, it stops at 3300 songs.
> So if anyone knows of any better software - open source, bleeding edge,
> Linux or Windows - I'm not too worried - I just want it to do what
> itunes is supposed to do (which might be a pipe dream as I suspect the
> ipod is close source under the bonnet) - I'd love to hear from you.
I found iTunes (on Mac) was horribly slow and broken importing
libraries, so much so that after 6 months of having iTunes on the main
media system where we lived, I only managed to add ~50 songs manually.
It would hang on anything that wasn't an mp3 (play lists, text files,
zip files, large MP3s, etc..
As it was only used for playing from the machine, I just used another
player.
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