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Re: [microsound] iTunes iSux



I have an iAudio X5 with a 60gb drive and only use .ogg on it;it built like a tank, plus there is an open source operating system available for it and some other players at: http://www.rockbox.org I recently bought an iAudio 7 with 16gb RAM as a gift and have only heard them say good things about it. Players that do not requires special applications like iTunes to function properly remove the buggy overly complex interfaces and just act as removable drives when connected via USB.

Cheers,
Marc

Paul Shuler wrote:
Look in to the Cowon iAudio
D2<http://www.anythingbutipod.com/archives/2007/04/cowon-iaudio-d2-review.php>supports
Flac, Ogg and everything else except crappy .m4a, has great video
capabilities and and SD card slot. Excellent sound quality. Everything is
drag and drop. And there is a great user community developing skins and such
at www.iaudiophile.net.
Happy user here. No need for iPod.We this supports everything can even
record in 256 kbs through it's biult in Mic. love it. -Paul


On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 8:45 AM, Kim Cascone <kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

There are some very extreme bugs within iTunes when dealing with
.aif(f) or .wav files.  The problem is that iTunes runs its DRM filter
on all files to see if they are "burned from an cd or bought from
iTunes"; the issues resides in that their DRM filters breaks direct
links to files, then they will not show up in iTunes, the files more
than likely still exist.

 and this is why I refuse to ever buy another iPod to use as a mp3 player
or use iTunes for anything but casual net-radio listening
next mp3 player I'm getting is a Sansa and so I can drag my mp3's onto and
off of it rather than using iTunes
gawd what a piece of crap

and don't get me started on Apple Mail
I hate it even though I use it daily
sheesh!

I'm considering buying a cheap used Dell and loading Ubuntu onto it for
office admin work
some things Apple does well (example: FCP) while other apps are still
trying to join the 21C of computing


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