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iTunes RAM

Posted by: Kerosene on: March 15, 2007

The amount of RAM that iTunes uses is a joke. I’m almost ready to reinstall Winamp.

More iTunes bashing

Posted by: Kerosene on: November 30, 2006

Continuing on from my last iTunes bash… I just used iTunes to convert about 150 files from ogg to mp3. Re-encoding oggs to mp3s using iTunes is sad enough (I’m lazy), but when iTunes truncates nearly all of the filenames because it can’t cope with “long” filenames, that’s just too much. I now have to [...]

iTunes is unintuitive

Posted by: Kerosene on: November 16, 2006

Despite the MASSIVE and RIDICULOUS shortcomings of iTunes, I like it, and I’m trying to use it as much as possible so I can get my home (desktop) and away (iPod) playlists and ratings in sync. But the menu items are insane. When I want to switch from the ‘big window’ iTunes to the miniplayer, [...]

iPod Nano now a reality

Posted by: Kerosene on: October 17, 2006

Well I went and got myself a 4GB “New” Nano. And so far, I’m impressed. I like going to Apple stores, everyone is enthusiastic about computers, it’s kinda like stepping back into the early 80s.

iPod Nano now a necessity

Posted by: Kerosene on: October 8, 2006

Having decided just a few days ago to get a Nano, the screen on my cheapo ‘recreational use’ mp3 player has stopped working. Everything else works fine, but I have no idea what I’m doing when moving around in the menus. As much as I wanted a real reason to get a Nano, I’ll be [...]

iPod 4G pulls pants down

Posted by: Kerosene on: October 6, 2006

I’ve decided to get an iPod Nano. I’m absolutely happy with my 40gb 4G iPod, but unsurprisingly it’s never been small enough to comfortably carry when walking – which isn’t the reason I got it anyway. Whenever I’m doing something where the 4G would end up pulling my pants down, I use [...]

2 soundcards. Too much for iTunes.

Posted by: Kerosene on: September 28, 2006

If you’re a Windows user with more than one soundcard, iTunes is pretty much useless. Yes, iTunes is pretty, and the new album cover thing in v7 is nice – but if you’ve got 2 soundcards, then you’re fucked. iTunes can only use whatever card is selected as the system default. Which means it uses [...]