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From: chris on 15 Dec 2008 06:14 Paul Rudin wrote: > Gordon Henderson <gordon+usenet(a)drogon.net> writes: > > > >> ...and tells me she only wants Linux if it supports iTunes. > > Now that Amazon sells a good range of non-DRM music the case for using > iTunes is rather less strong. That was going to be my suggestion too. Play.com and digital7.com also have most, if not all, of the major labels on board in non-DRM format goodness. Like someone else suggested, have a look at amarok it's a fantastic piece of software. IMO iTunes is no better than it.
From: Tony Houghton on 15 Dec 2008 12:04 On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:14:46 +0000 chris <ithinkiam(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Paul Rudin wrote: > > > > Now that Amazon sells a good range of non-DRM music the case for using > > iTunes is rather less strong. > > That was going to be my suggestion too. Play.com and digital7.com also > have most, if not all, of the major labels on board in non-DRM format > goodness. > > Like someone else suggested, have a look at amarok it's a fantastic > piece of software. IMO iTunes is no better than it. What would tempt me to buy an iPod instead of a Mass Storage Device is the hardware compatibility ie many car stereos have an iPod interface now. AIUI it isn't just an audio connector, it means you can control the iPod from the stereo's steering column controls. Are any other players compatible? Mind you, I probably won't get my hands on a car with such a stereo for another 10 years :-/. And the one in the new Fiesta has a better idea: a USB port so it can play tunes off a memory stick. -- TH * http://www.realh.co.uk
From: Daniel Smith on 15 Dec 2008 15:55 chris wrote: > Paul Rudin wrote: >> Gordon Henderson <gordon+usenet(a)drogon.net> writes: >> >> >> >>> ...and tells me she only wants Linux if it supports iTunes. >> Now that Amazon sells a good range of non-DRM music the case for using >> iTunes is rather less strong. > > That was going to be my suggestion too. Play.com and digital7.com also > have most, if not all, of the major labels on board in non-DRM format > goodness. > > Like someone else suggested, have a look at amarok it's a fantastic > piece of software. IMO iTunes is no better than it. Amarok is great for manageing music on ipods or anything else media playerish for that matter and check out magnatune.com for downloads that are of better quality (you can choose the formats wav flac mp3(VBR) ogg AAC mp3(CBR 128k) ) and you can give the mucic to 3 freinds for nothing, you can stream the whole album as many times as you like before buying, and you cna choose to pay anything from US$5 to US$18 per album, whatever you pay the artist gets a full 50% gross (unlike the 99� per track itunes where the artist gets <1�)
From: Phil on 16 Dec 2008 07:42 chris <ithinkiam(a)gmail.com> writes: > Like someone else suggested, have a look at amarok it's a fantastic > piece of software. IMO iTunes is no better than it. I have tried Amarok, but found the fact it strips the leading number from the track names annoying. I don't always want to listen to tracks in alpha-numeric order. I couldn't work out what the 'feature' ius called or why it exists, but someone must have spent time coding it. I gave up and went back to using Nautilus. -- Old protocols never die. They just get migrated over TCP/IP.
From: Frank Peelo on 16 Dec 2008 08:07
Daniel Smith wrote: > chris wrote: > >>Paul Rudin wrote: >> >>>Gordon Henderson <gordon+usenet(a)drogon.net> writes: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>...and tells me she only wants Linux if it supports iTunes. >>> >>>Now that Amazon sells a good range of non-DRM music the case for using >>>iTunes is rather less strong. >> >>That was going to be my suggestion too. Play.com and digital7.com also >>have most, if not all, of the major labels on board in non-DRM format >>goodness. >> >>Like someone else suggested, have a look at amarok it's a fantastic >>piece of software. IMO iTunes is no better than it. > > > Amarok is great for manageing music on ipods or anything else media > playerish for that matter Can it control what order tracks get played in? I can't figure it out myself. Mostly my (current) mp3 player (the cheapest 4GB player I could find in Argos -- it's made by Iitronics) seems to play things in chronological order, i.e. the order in which they were copied to the mp3 player. Previous one, I could never figure out what order things would play in. I thought they would be played in list order. I tried putting numbers in front of tracks to control this. Sometimes seemed to work, didn't always. Is there a standard for this, that Amarok would know about? Frank |