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Re:The Dream Is Over: Music Labels Have Killed Their Digital... by thought_alarm on Tuesday October 05, 2010 @03:25PM (#1761047)
Yes, trying out other music managers is a very good way to come to appreciate iTunes and how it works. I encourage everyone who thinks they're unhappy with iTunes to check out these other applications.
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Re:The Dream Is Over: Music Labels Have Killed Their Digital... by icegreentea on Tuesday October 05, 2010 @04:46PM (#1761409)
The Winamp iPod manager wasn't so bad. Sure, there was no drag and drop, but I always kept dropping in the wrong place anyways. The biggest problem was how it handled certain aspects of tags and labelling different from iTunes. It really wasn't a problem if all you ever used was Winamp, but if you started with iTunes, and switched to Winamp, it would just reorder your music (the most obvious example being 0-9 coming before/after a-z), and piss you off.

Today, I use foobar to play my music. And I keep iTunes around to load my iPod. Cause as stupidly annoying as iTunes is, foobar gets it worse.

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Re:The Dream Is Over: Music Labels Have Killed Their Digital... by lukifer on Tuesday October 05, 2010 @04:03PM (#1761210)
iTunes is a great personal media database, and a terrible everything else. The former is enough to make me willing to put up with the latter.
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Re:The Dream Is Over: Music Labels Have Killed Their Digital... by bad_user on Wednesday October 06, 2010 @01:51AM (#1762892)
Yes, but why can't I just drag and drop mp3 files on my iPod/iPhone directly from the file manager?
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Re:The Dream Is Over: Music Labels Have Killed Their Digital... by aw3c2 on Wednesday October 06, 2010 @06:08AM (#1763327)
Because you purchased an Apple product.
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