iPad 2

[kolla]

But it is just as mindbogglingly dumb as the previous model though, and relies on a "real" computer for syncing data. The bluetooth implementation on apple gadgets are incredibly stupid done. Why does apple have to gain that I cannot send data between my ipad and my phone or desktop? Why is there no USB host adapter so I can dump images from my camera directly on to the ipad? No memory card reader? I don't get it. Also total lack of codecs, need to rely on crappy third party media players to play just about anything. And Apple keep removing those from app store as well. Nope, no more iBlarb for me, thanks.

[kolla]

I've never seen a person yet that's tried the iPad rev. 1 that didn't say that it was a neat concept and most stated that they could see the appeal, even if it wasn't what suited their needs.

What do you think I'm posting this from?

[kolla]

So I decided I want to copy my music over to my ipad, and since..
a) it doesn't grasp neither ogg nor flac
b) does not allow me to just copy over files directly, like one can do on any other device
I decided to re-rip my CD collection of ... ah.. dunno, maybe 400 CDs or so, on my minimac. What's more natural than to use iTunes, it even does it automagically when CDDA is inserted. However, iTunes is also mindnumblingly dumb. So I have this old Basement Jaxx album, "The Singles", which have tracks that are by Basement Jaxx, but also quite a few that are Basement Jaxx featuring some other artist. What does iTunes do? It now thinks I have 6 albums called "The Singles", of which one is by an artist "Basement Jaxx", one is of an artist named "Basement Jaxx Feat. Kele le Roc" and so on. And not just that, it even has created directories in the filesystem like this as well. And it does this same crap with compilation albums, creating a total mess in the filesystem. And when I sync over to the iPad, the mess is recreated there. I find myself unable to listen to a complete album, as neither iTunes nor the iPod software seem to be aware that the collection of files are actually the same friggin' album.

So what am I doing wrong and how is this supposed to be user friendly?

[kolla]

Metadata my ass - so just because meta data on what... is it CDDB this sorry excuse of a program is using ... is wrong, iTunes has to do it wrong too? Well, with all the screwed data on CDDB, that simply wont work, as I can tell already. And btw - it is not just a matter of changing the meta data, the file structure remains fubar even if I do so. And apart from manually moving the album dicretory into the "compilation" directory, how d I tell iTunes that this is a compilation album by changing meta data? Anyways, my point is that iTunes should already know this, as it is the program that rips the CD in the first place - I've never really stumbled on a ripping program that behaves this silly when it comes to this - heck, most programs even let _me_ decide how to organize my files as I see fit.

[kolla]

:lol: Macs are derided for being too simple and user friendly... But as soon as you are required to adjust some metadata (easy enough to do if you right click on the the song selections), then all of a sudden the Mac is too difficult to use! Come on, we are Amiga users we shall not be overcome by a bit of power user work

Let me see.. I come from Amarok. It lets me change all meta data on all marked files all in one go. I can mark all files and tell it to change artist for all tracks in one go, I can tell it to change album for all files in one go, I can have it run out on the net and collect track info based on the file names, song lengths, and analyze the files by using musicbrainz - all in all it does exactly what I expect from such a program. iTunes on the other hand is more of a hub for iBobs, and pretty much just that. As a music player it stinks, as a meta data editor it's just way too silly.

You power user comment is highly ironic.

[kolla]

$?£>%^<&<%>>?£?@@@!!!!

After the 48hrs of of fiddling I've had to do to get E-UAE to work (By work I mean give more than "2.17 MIPS" rating in Sysinfo) that just isn't funny!

("sudo echo sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmmax=536870912; sudo purge" before each run does the trick and no, putting the value in /etc/sysctl.conf AND/OR /etc/rc doesn't work.)

The /etc/sysctl.conf file, like a lot of standard unix files in OSX, is just there to confuse you. And they top it off by having man pages that more often than not have nothing to do with the actual binaries they ship, and most of the OSX specific commands have no man pages at all.

[kolla]

Maybe OSX just isnt for you?

According to certain people on this board, that just cannot be.

[kolla]

No one is forcing you to use OSX.

Perhaps not, but Apple kind of force anyone with an iPad to use iTunes.