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?
