iTunes crossover
Sunday, April 09, 2006
I've made the switch over to iTunes on my laptop for good. Goodbye fence! I originally got it to act as a free CD ripper, but it doesn't take long to remember all the little things: the song-specific volume adjustment, the sound enhancer, the stats (FTW!), the auto playlists, the customisability. It's the winner.
The straw that broke Windows Media Player's back was that the currently playing song still shows up in my MSN Messenger tagline! It's just something that I think's really cool.
I like Winamp and WMP's ability to just throw anything on there for one listen, like I do off burned CD-Rs before I copy them to the hard drive...that's probably the last thing iTunes isn't so great on (you have to have it in the library before playing it, which clogs up the library).
The amazing thing is how many people think you need an iPod to use iTunes, or you need an iPod and iTunes to listen to podcasts. It's fantastic marketing ... yet also poor marketing, in the sense that users think their products are so limited in use.
Ach, I can't really blog so coherently today. That's what you get for having such a great Friday and Saturday night I guess! Pictures to come...
2 comments to this post
I was so vehemently against iTunes for a long time, but once I gave it a chance I realised that it's probably the best program available for dealing with super huge music libraries. But as you say, it's practically useless if you want to play a single song you've downloaded, so I keep Winamp installed for just that purpose.
It works well. Welcome to the dark side yourself! :D
(And you should use ExactAudioCopy to rip music, with the LAME mp3 encoder extension. Seriously.)
Hey, I was already on the dark side! I've used iTunes at work (primarily for podcasts though) for over half a year.
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