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I have a mac but don't use ITunes because the playlist management is so poor. I use the mac port of Amarok instead. It's playlist management is way better for m
by zaphar 17y ago
I have a mac but don't use ITunes because the playlist management is so poor. I use the mac port of Amarok instead. It's playlist management is way better for my needs.
I don't use the ITunes store, don't have an IPhone, and want to play my music in formats that ITunes doesn't support. So for me when it comes to playing Music the Mac most emphatically doesnt do what I want out of the box. Granted I'm not the average user but still there's nothing wrong with wanting a music player that is just a music player.
For people like me ITunes is just wasted Disk space since it has so few features I want and doesn't support many of the ones I do like.
- derefr 17y agoI used to create playlists for everything, but I realized that I was compensating with synthetic metadata for the lack of natural metadata attached to my files. By actually making use of the secondary ID3 tags (Genre, Rating, Kind, Play Count, Skip Count, Compilation?, Disc Number, and other such fields), and making sure they all have correct values, I find that I never have to make playlists, only fulltext-search-then-sort (which iTunes is very good at.) I say this as someone with 28000 listened songs :)
- riffic 17y agoyeah but it's so hard to get good metadata these days. It'd be nice if iTunes did some sort of MusicBrainz thing.
- zaphar 17y agoAmarok has similar functionality. With the added benefit of song queueing. So if I want to listen to a particular song without killing my playlist it's easy. And queuing a particular song to be next can influence the dynamic playlist allowing me to have one playlist that changes throughout the day to match my current mood/desires. Itunes doesn't have this feature and doesn't seem likely to anytime in the future.