iTunes Ping

[Chief]

Apple has finally done something with social networking and music fans in Ping.

Unfortunately I open it up and it is recommending I follow a ton of crap, none of which I have in my music library - Lady Gaga, Pink and so on.

Sounds like people are paying for high ranking in the "recommend" list.

 

[ObaMartins]

Its pretty shit.

Last.fm>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Ping

 

[anti_]

itunes just all round sucks, im yet to find a worse media player.

so it doesnt surprise me that this thing sucks too.

 

[omit]

I had a similar idea a few years ago. kinda wish I went through with it now

 

[Damon_3388]

itunes just all round sucks, im yet to find a worse media player.

What's so bad about it? Personally, it doesn't seem any better or worse than any other media player I've used.

 

[anti_]

1. cant drag music off your ipod
2. lags like a bitch for me
3. once it deleted my entire ipod, i wasnt even at the computer and it just did it by itself.
4. i learned the hard way the first time never to update my version of itunes. i did it and then it auto-synced my ipod and i lost basically everything

this was a few years ago, so maybe the newer version wouldnt be as bad. but i really just cant be bothered with it.

 

[omit]

1. huge copyright implications
2. itunes has always been a resource hog... but it's improved a little
3&4. never use auto sync and keep your versions up to date

Itunes is pretty powerful and surprisingly versatile media player. my one main problem with it is a lack of support for flac files

 

[anti_]

thing is i never used auto-sync, i turned it off initially. which is why it was weird that it decided to destroy my music collection...twice

all i wanted was something that runs smoothly, doesnt delete my shit and is able to drag tracks off my ipod. i use mediamonkey now, which is good enough as it does all of those.

 

[Damon_3388]

anti, if you're wanting to import files from your iPod to your computer (which it sounds like you want to, otherwise you'd already have the files on your PC, and wouldn't "lose" them at all when syncing your iPod), just put the thing into disk mode, copy them onto the iPod as though it's a portable hard drive, and then copy them onto your computer.

 

[anti_]

haha...now im confused.

dont worry man, i've figured out my method now and it works. all is well in the world.

 

[KaLL]

Could have been a last.fm killer, but its utter ****

 

[sblack]

1. huge copyright implications
2. itunes has always been a resource hog... but it's improved a little
3&4. never use auto sync and keep your versions up to date

Itunes is pretty powerful and surprisingly versatile media player. my one main problem with it is a lack of support for flac files

I'm not a fan of iTunes. Use foobar when I can. But when I need iTunes for my iPhone. But saying that I can't support FLAC files is a bit simplistic. Apple have their own perfectly good lossless format which is fully compatible with iTunes and iPods/iPhones.

FLAC is not the be all, end all format for lossless music.

 

[omit]

I'm not a fan of iTunes. Use foobar when I can. But when I need iTunes for my iPhone. But saying that I can't support FLAC files is a bit simplistic. Apple have their own perfectly good lossless format which is fully compatible with iTunes and iPods/iPhones.

FLAC is not the be all, end all format for lossless music.

it's much easier to find flac torrents than m4a

 

[sblack]

Yeah, but how is it to convert? Takes 10 seconds.

dbpoweramp does it natively. Think foobar needs a plugin. But db is great.