ITunes for Windows

[McNorris]

It is official. :-)

[DanDude]

Does this mean it's available for Amiga?  :-P

[McNorris]

Not unless your running Windows on your mig.

I thought it of general interest.

[Valan]

I think some Windows users will find it hard to use at first coz it is so straight forward.
Seriouly!

I expected a menu selection for some things but it just needs to be clicked or dragged... the easiness feels odd.
 :-P

Valan

[GreggBz]

I just got iTunes.
Hmm.. Here's my opinion.
I don't need another all in one multimedia application.
So far, I have
RealOne Player.
WinAmp
Windows Media Player
QuickTime
Windows 2000 CD player
and iTunes

Everytime I insert a CD or click on an MP3 or what ever I get
"Application X is not the default application for opening media type X, would you like to make it your default application?"
They all fight over the file associations in my registry.
Maybe I'm old fashioned, I just like to open the app first,
and then select the file I want it to work on form a list.
Much like an Amiga. Rather then have the application automatically start when I insert a CD and then automatically download track names while it automatically makes itself the default aplication for all of my media types while also automatically putting a little icon on my taskbar!!. ARGGHHH!!
I swear I'm going to hook up a turntable next to my mouse pad.

[carls]

@GreggBz
RealOne and Quicktime are two of the worst Windows applications ever... Winamp 3 is close but RealOne takes the price :-)

[Step]

I like itunes, and when they make it possible to purchase music outside the US i will buy, buy, buy...
It is not very responsive tough, a bit slow UI, so some work on it is still needed. But it still play great and so on.

[tony23]

@GreggBz

Quote...

"I swear I'm going to hook up a turntable next to my mouse pad. "

sounds like you might like DeliPlayer2 for windows.
Check it out here...
http://www.deliplayer.com

And get MED or MadTracker2  :-)
Mods Rule !  :-D

[raddydaddy]

The world is going bonkers - its official! :-P

Having been a Mac user and enthusiast for a few years through work [I'm a graphic designer] I was real happy to hear that iTunes had ben released for Windoze. Finally someone had the common sense to port the ultra stable and small footprint music system from the boffins at Apple.

Of course, somewhere along the line entered the bloat!

On my 2 ghz turbo PC, this drained 97% CPU to play music with the GUI showing, reorganized my 45 gig MP3 collection from my tried and tested genre->artists->albums->songs to a bizarre format of each song in a folder in its root. Seriously, if you  love music and well written software - stay away from iTunes!

Now it seems that only Amiga has the 'less is more' ethic to software especially now that Microsoft is biting the Apple!  :-D  

[Jost80]

@raddydaddy

I heard there was an option in iTunes to make it try to keep all your files at the same volume and if you disable that option the CPU-usage goes down alot.

[bloodline]

stefanjo wrote:
@raddydaddy

I heard there was an option in iTunes to make it try to keep all your files at the same volume and if you disable that option the CPU-usage goes down alot.

Yeah, I've wondered about that, since IT would need some kind of inbuilt audio compressor.

Since when you throw an album on the CD player all the tracksare Compressed during the mastering stage to all be at the same level (no need to change the volume dial), but if the songs are all from different sources they will all be at different levels meaning you would have to keep adjusting the volume... the only solution is to have a compressor in the software munching away your CPU time :-(

[that_punk_guy]

If you want to avoid installing Quicktime on your Windows machine there's a codec here:

http://www.softpedia.com/public/cat/11/2/1/11-2-1-40.shtml

It allows you to watch Quicktime movies in Media Player and any other viewer that supports standard Windows codecs. Another plus is that you get a proper preview panel in Explorer and no annoying 'Get Quicktime Pro Now!' pop-ups  :-)

[that_punk_guy]

bloodline wrote:

the only solution is to have a compressor in the software munching away your CPU time :-(

Or batch-process all your MP3s overnight maybe? Does anyone know a program that will do that?

Edit: Found one on SourceForge here.

[whabang]

that_punk_guy wrote:

bloodline wrote:

the only solution is to have a compressor in the software munching away your CPU time :-(

Or batch-process all your MP3s overnight maybe? Does anyone know a program that will do that?

Razorlame and LAME combined...