Steve Jobs, the iPad, and cultural sugar water
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From: nospam on 5 Jul 2010 21:34 In article <1jl7mb0.blwvd514mp8kwN%dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz>, David Empson <dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz> wrote: > This may be a recent addition, as I recall old versions of iTunes could > only show Genre, Artist and Album in the browser. (I turned off Genre, > but I don't recall if the other two were selectable.) 9.0 it seems is where composer appeared, and genre enable/disable was hidden in some versions for some bizarre reason.
From: Todd Allcock on 5 Jul 2010 22:33 "Wes Groleau" <Groleau+news(a)FreeShell.org> wrote in message news:i0teir$g10$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > On 07-05-2010 15:58, Jochem Huhmann wrote: >> someone used to horse carriages looking at a motor car and complaining >> about the absurd thing that you hardly can harness a horse to and it's >> much too heavy anyway with all the useless metal things under the hood. > > And how can the reins work with this stupid piece of glass > between me and the horse? While full file system access probably isn't desirable on something like an iPad, does no one find it ironic that each new OS iteration adds additional kludges to simulate the function of a file system? Shared folders? "Sending" copies of files from one compatibile app to another? Apple's working pretty hard to cobble together a fairly complicated simulation of a file system to make things "easier" that having a user accessible file system! Microsoft's Activesync for Windows Mobile is starting to look better and better- it simply synced a specific sync folder between the device and PC. Apps on the device stored their data in the shared docs folder on the device, which automaitically synced to the PC at every connection. Neither the PC nor the device cared what type of files were there- it just synced everything in the folder. iTunes does this now for iPads, except the file/types are limited to what iTunes "understands" based on installed/included apps.
From: AES on 5 Jul 2010 23:39 In article <timstreater-D43D8E.22471105072010(a)news.individual.net>, Tim Streater <timstreater(a)waitrose.com> wrote: > In article <i0t7tc$jaq$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, > Wes Groleau <Groleau+news(a)FreeShell.org> wrote: > > > On 07-05-2010 12:30, Jochem Huhmann wrote: > > > In case you havent't noticed: In the iPod and the iPhone and the iPad > > > you never have to deal with "files". You deal with songs or photos or > > > movies or books. This is a feature. > > > > Nor directories, instead albums and shelves and books and artists. > > How about if I want to arganise by composer? I don't have "songs" except > possibly those written by Schubert, and I'm not particularly bothered > which artist is performing the piece. > Or the audio files one is dealing with are not music at all -- they're seminars, talks, lectures, sound-tracks, animal sounds, bird calls, traffic noise recordings, innumerable other kinds of audio research files -- and the whole pop music vocabulary and organizational structure built into iTunes is not just irrelevant but totally gets in the way. Sure, one can tediously modify the names, labels, categories, etc in iTunes to fit other situations -- but no one who's had experience with any really good media management and cataloging software (and there are several examples of such for the Mac) would ever go near iTunes for this function.
From: AES on 5 Jul 2010 23:46 In article <timstreater-B3D2E8.22475905072010(a)news.individual.net>, Tim Streater <timstreater(a)waitrose.com> wrote: > > > > Allows me, right from within a IVMP catalog, to batch rename and > > renumber files (including a very good Find and Replace capability); > > resort them on a huge range of sort criteria; transfer them between > > folders using any of three selected different transfer modes; and so on. > > And it rewrites all your htaccess and make files, does it? > Just typed "htaccess" into Find windows in the Mac Finder Help and into an online Users Guide for Tiger -- no hits in either. Somehow the Finder and IVMP (which, by the way, runs great in its Windows version also) don't seem to be concerned about these files, whatever they are -- nor am I.
From: nospam on 5 Jul 2010 23:52
In article <siegman-D31723.20390705072010(a)bmedcfsc-srv02.tufts.ad.tufts.edu>, AES <siegman(a)stanford.edu> wrote: > Sure, one can tediously modify the names, labels, categories, etc in > iTunes to fit other situations you can also tediously drag the files to particular folders. if you want it organized a certain way, you are going to have to do it one way or another. > -- but no one who's had experience with > any really good media management and cataloging software (and there are > several examples of such for the Mac) would ever go near iTunes for this > function. yes they would. you use iview to manage photos, right? why not finder? it's the same concept. |