itunes sucks. I found winamp

  On 4/18/2011 at 7:26 PM, mcbpete said:

  On 4/18/2011 at 7:12 PM, Dan C said:

Itunes works with the remote thing i got with my mac, it's that sort of thing that keeps me happy.

I've got my HTC phone to control Foobar (and other stuff) using Unified Remote ( http://www.unifiedremote.com/screenshots ). Completely pointless due to the size of my room and flat but I did give a little excitable chuckle when I could control the music coming out of my bedroom whilst sat on the toilet on the other side of the building

sez something about your wireless network. Everytime i go for a piss down the hall, i have to stand back and push hard, for the headphone connection to maintain.

i also moved from winamp to foobar recently, although without any good reason - i simply couldn't find an audioscrobbler plugin that doesn't come with bloatware after reformat. winamp was probably the first program i ever downloaded, im sure i was using it since the 1.x's versions.

what i still haven't found is a proper media library. i'm using quicksearch but it wont search by file type for example, something i need.

what are some good plugins for this ?

  On 4/18/2011 at 5:14 PM, halisray said:

iTunes for mac ftw

quite

  On 4/18/2011 at 5:14 PM, Boxing Day said:

I have been using Itunes for years and i never had a problem with it. I don't know where all the hate is coming from.

  haters said:

i used itunes on my pc and it sucks so hard, WHAT GIVES

maybe you guys should be cool and get a mac instead

juss sayin

itunes/mac user but i will always prefer my cheep sony mp3 player for music. drag. drop. anywhere. on and off the device. itunes/ipod combo is the only one out there that doesn't support this very basic function. idiotic. fortunately on mac I can just go right into the itunes directory and drag and drop as i please.

winamp is good for one thing IMO and that is milkdrop 2.. which sadly shall never see the light of day on mac.

now im looking for a free dvd burning app for XP

  On 4/18/2011 at 9:45 PM, TwiddleBot said:

drag. drop. anywhere. on and off the device. itunes/ipod combo is the only one out there that doesn't support this very basic function. idiotic.

this, while admittedly is an understandable attempt at piracy protection, is the one thing that REALLY frustrates me about the ipod as well.

well, no, make that two: the iphone doesn't allow you to manually manage your music/files on more than one computer—if i wanted to delete/add files from/to my iphone on a computer other than the one on which i'd initially set the phone up, i would have to erase all the mp3s off of it before being able to delete/add anything (which in turn means i can no longer add or delete files on my iphone from the computer on which i'd initally set the phone up).

WTF APPEL

also, wtf is this

it's an iThingie

  On 4/18/2011 at 10:28 PM, marf said:

now im looking for a free dvd burning app for XP

imgburn

  On 4/18/2011 at 9:45 PM, TwiddleBot said:

winamp is good for one thing IMO and that is milkdrop 2.. which sadly shall never see the light of day on mac.

Chech out projectM

http://projectm.sourceforge.net/

Been using Foobar since 2003, heh. Have to say that it's pretty much as close to perfect as you can get, a really heavenly player for us music nerds. Sure, a few flaws here and there, but they're all minor. A winner's choice.

  On 4/18/2011 at 5:57 PM, vincentvc said:

  On 4/18/2011 at 5:55 PM, Bob Dobalina said:

foobar!

  On 4/18/2011 at 5:59 PM, Enter a new display name said:

lol at people thinking Winamp is low on memory usage and fast. Check out Foobar2000.

  On 4/18/2011 at 7:36 PM, feltcher said:

I am a recent Foobar convert, had previously been using Winamp since 2000-ish

  On 4/19/2011 at 1:53 AM, 40days said:

Been using Foobar since 2003, heh. Have to say that it's pretty much as close to perfect as you can get, a really heavenly player for us music nerds. Sure, a few flaws here and there, but they're all minor. A winner's choice.

+1 on teh foobar

add the discogs tagging addon and it's a pretty much perfect, incredibly configurable audio player which is light on resources. plugins for anything you want to do.

I've been using foobar for a few years now but one thing itunes has (had?) over it was the party shuffle. 99% of the time I listen to albums from start to finish, but those times that I feel like mixing it up a bit, perhaps get reminded of something I forgot was in my library, I'll hit random and probably get the same few artists over and over. Are there any good plugins that improve/replace foobar's random?

can foobar auto convert files direct to an ipod?

i can't fathom anyone using itunes over winamp

  On 4/19/2011 at 2:15 AM, marf said:

can foobar auto convert files direct to an ipod?

yes, it takes two steps, but you can convert+upload to yer ipod in 4 clicks, less than itunes afaik.

I've used winamp since it came out. Milkdrop on my 40 inch in 1080p tv is breathtaking with my 15,000+ presets for it. Also, there is an android app called AWARemote that controls winamp with cover art and everything. AWESOME!

milkdrop is great. i crank the settings so it changes thingies every strong beat or three. spent a lot of time staring at it while in a stupor in college. then i got a mac out of a dumpster and ran itunes visualizer on that at the same time. it was tighter than that pink floyd poster with the chicks with the butts

itunes is pointless unless you own a mac + an ipod, otherwise there's no excuse.

  On 4/19/2011 at 2:12 AM, futuregirlfriend said:

I've been using foobar for a few years now but one thing itunes has (had?) over it was the party shuffle. 99% of the time I listen to albums from start to finish, but those times that I feel like mixing it up a bit, perhaps get reminded of something I forgot was in my library, I'll hit random and probably get the same few artists over and over. Are there any good plugins that improve/replace foobar's random?

The shuffle on mine definitely seems to be random enough - it jumps all over my library. Perhaps the same few artists cropping up is a result of you having more tracks by the artist so the probability of hitting them again will be higher. Not sure what 'party shuffle' is though...

  On 4/18/2011 at 5:14 PM, halisray said:

iTunes for mac ftw

that, and Ecoute

EDIT: also, way does everyone think iTunes is clunky? Have you tried changing the layout?

winamp's random picker has proper magic. you go back back back, it remembers which tracks. should you choose to go back back, and then a _different_ forward. the randomness starts anew due to the changed branch point. but, most importantly, i feel it generally picks good shit !

i suppose that's all relative to what i have in the playlist. i don't pick an artist/genre and tell winamp to riff off that !

good for itunes if it's figured that out.

iTunes is for the Grizzly Mommas who are so down to earth they're proud of their ignorance.

  On 4/19/2011 at 9:36 AM, mcbpete said:

Not sure what 'party shuffle' is though...

Basically it was just a little extra option that would tell your computer to draw in a lot of electricity in time with the beat causing your bedroom lights to dim.