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| Thread ID: 107880 | 2010-03-05 02:15:00 | Jeez I find Apple tiresome! | Billy T (70) | Press F1 |
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| 864175 | 2010-03-05 09:46:00 | Quicktime is pretty horrible and iTunes is much worse. There are many free CD rippers that work - the best one being EAC (Exact Audio Copy). If you want to rip to MP3 you must download the encoder yourself but that's also free and it's not very hard to do either. I wouldn't bother using anything else, personally, and certainly not iTunes. Interesting viewpoint, and while I agree on QuickTime, to my surprise I actually found iTunes to be far and away the best ripper of all that I tried and I tried plenty, most of them recommended by PF1 members. It was fast, could usually download the song titles as well and was effectively fully automatic, I converted a huge number of CDs and it even ejected the disk when finished. All I had to do was take it out, insert the next one, close the tray and away it went again. It was also 100% reliable, while all other rippers failed on various disks. This is high praise from a confirmed anti-mac user. I avoided it for years because it was bloatware, but the operational simplicity and reliability was such that I forgave the bloat completely. I even tolerated QuickTime once I found how to get rid of it. :D It's a strange old world........ Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 864176 | 2010-03-05 10:10:00 | itunes requires quicktime to play movies | nedkelly (9059) | ||
| 864177 | 2010-03-05 18:01:00 | EAC can download CD information from FreeDB but you must configure that first. After the initial setup, EAC works very well iTunes doesn't choke on scratched CDs etc because when it encounters an error it just flies over the top and makes the data up. EAC will try its best to read the data properly to ensure a proper copy. I guess it just depends how much you care about accuracy I use EAC for three reasons 1) Free 2) Accurate (if you want it to be) 3) Not made by a big corporation which doesn't want to support decent formats like OGG and FLAC Bonus) It won't even think of putting DRM anywhere. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 864178 | 2010-03-05 19:50:00 | EAC can download CD information from FreeDB but you must configure that first. After the initial setup, EAC works very well iTunes doesn't choke on scratched CDs etc because when it encounters an error it just flies over the top and makes the data up. EAC will try its best to read the data properly to ensure a proper copy. I guess it just depends how much you care about accuracy I use EAC for three reasons 1) Free 2) Accurate (if you want it to be) 3) Not made by a big corporation which doesn't want to support decent formats like OGG and FLAC Bonus) It won't even think of putting DRM anywhere. You are wrong, for BillyT to endorse a apple product, it must be right. He just doesn't do it |
plod (107) | ||
| 864179 | 2010-03-05 19:59:00 | For me it's iTunes because it tags all the files correctly, you can change any info manually, it's organised, fast and reliable. The downside is the formats it doesn't recognise. QT is crap and I use VLC |
limepile (96) | ||
| 864180 | 2010-03-05 20:36:00 | You dont have to install QT, but then if you want to play vids within Itunes, thats when it'll complain, that you need it. QT was a bit flaky. It couldnt even play MP4's (that I recorded off the tuner). It kept on stuttering. And VLC did the same thing often. Win7 does a good enough job of playing MP4's. At least the Xbox can play them. All I have to find now, is a program that can sync contacts. Since I used to use Itunes for that. I'll probably use Mediamonkey for whatever songs |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 864181 | 2010-03-05 20:41:00 | Hi folks. I'm an innocent in this music field - downloading, ripping and burning. I use and like iTunes and vlc with Vista and seem to cope quite well. This thread has caused me to reconsider the iTunes - is there something wrong with iTunes that I am not aware of? Or is it just a dislike by BillyT? | Scouse (83) | ||
| 864182 | 2010-03-05 20:47:00 | To the folks using iTunes, what do you do about Bonjour? In fact what does it do, and does it have any useful purpose? | John H (8) | ||
| 864183 | 2010-03-05 20:52:00 | Only thing, I dont like about QT, is what I wrote above . No point having it, if it cant play anything properly . It either stuttered or froze Nothing wrong with Itunes . Altho it is a bit bloated . The only thing I used to use it for was syncing contacts, and vids . Didnt need the Itunes store . Never used it . But something like mediamonkey will do the same thing (and its only 7-8 mb) . Or winamp, songbird, double twist . Compared to the latest version of Itunes (95-96 mb)! and it installs too many services, which are probably spying on you Bonjour is for this ( . wikipedia . org/wiki/Bonjour_" target="_blank">en . wikipedia . org(software)) . I used to disable / uninstall it . |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 864184 | 2010-03-05 21:19:00 | itunes does more then install QT it installs bonjour and a bunch of services. I found removing or disabling any of them crippled itunes features I required (When I say required I mean forced on me by ****wit apple mentality). The result is a bunch of useless crap running 100% of the time on my PC to run a a pointless bloated piece of crap that I not only don't like or want but don't have any choice on. Apple can go to hell. |
Metla (12) | ||
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