iTunes

JeanLucPicard · Post by **JeanLucPicard** » 2005-01-18 03:29pm

got it? Love it? hate it? don't know what it is?

personally, I love iTunes. its sooo much nicer than WMP and mp3 files generally take up 1/5 the space of WMA files. I also like the visualizer.

Praxis · Post by **Praxis** » 2005-01-18 06:31pm

Quite cool.

I've got it on the Mac and PC.

My only complaint is that it gets annoying when you play a little sound effect file and it gets added to your library

The iTunes controller in Dashboard in Tiger looks like it'll be a cool addon, too.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2005-01-18 08:28pm

don't care for it. it doesn't just quite have the same feel as winamp and is generally more annoying to figure out how to work its playlist function.

JeanLucPicard · Post by **JeanLucPicard** » 2005-01-20 12:28pm

Darth_Zod wrote:don't care for it. it doesn't just quite have the same feel as winamp and is generally more annoying to figure out how to work its playlist function.

Its playlist function is easy to use, in comparison to WMP. I can't say that I have used WinAmp though, iTunes does all that and some, and you don't have to pay for it.

Vendetta · Post by **Vendetta** » 2005-01-20 01:39pm

Love it. It sorts music automatically by artist and album which, since I like to listen to whole albums, and all my music is ripped from my own album collection, is a good thing for me.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2005-01-20 01:54pm

Never used it. I don't like to support Apple in really any way, and Winamp has worked fine for me for the past five years that I don't want to use anything else.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2005-01-20 11:36pm

JeanLucPicard wrote: Its playlist function is easy to use, in comparison to WMP. I can't say that I have used WinAmp though, iTunes does all that and some, and you don't have to pay for it.

i don't have to pay for winamp either. itunes simply doesn't have an interface that's quite as intuitive imo.

Post by **Dalton** » 2005-01-21 12:02am

I use iTunes since I have an iPod, but overall I prefer Winamp because I tend to prefer having an equalizer close at hand.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2005-01-21 11:37am

I use iTunes most of the time with most of my music stored in Apple's lossless format.

JLP, If your MP3 files are that small or your WMA files are huge you've screwed up somewhere.

Captain Cyran · Post by **Captain Cyran** » 2005-01-21 12:08pm

Great, love iTunes, especially in my dorm as we have a system that allows us to listen to music that other people in the dorm have on iTunes. Getting tired of my music? Well I'll just listen to Chris's down the hall.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2005-01-21 12:27pm

The playlist sharing mechanism is quite nifty.

JeanLucPicard · Post by **JeanLucPicard** » 2005-01-23 05:16pm

phongn wrote: JLP, If your MP3 files are that small or your WMA files are huge you've screwed up somewhere.

My mp3 files are on average 5MB @ 160kpbs, and my WMA files are 800+kbps

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2005-01-23 07:01pm

Are you using WMA Lossless? Also, iTunes' MP3 encoder isn't very good.

JeanLucPicard · Post by **JeanLucPicard** » 2005-01-24 10:33am

phongn wrote:Are you using WMA Lossless? Also, iTunes' MP3 encoder isn't very good.

yeah, WMA lossless is what I am using *stupid me* As for iTunes mp3 encoder not being that good, I think its fine. I could have selected a custom import bit rate, but 160kbps was all I needed