Why do I hate iTunes, LV? Because the simple act of navigating and synchronizing my digital library is a PITA probably 90% of the time. Once in a while, the stars will align between their latest desktop app and iphone app and everything will be stress-free. But generally speaking, the constant, incremental software updates across their platforms makes everything messed up. Always having to deal with greyed-out "ghost songs" on my iphone that are taking up space, but not really playable.
maybe you are just doing it wrong
Don't mean to sound cocky, but no -- I know how to manage this sort of stuff pretty well. I think my hatred of iTunes more to do with their Match service -- both the simple act of making it work well, and its positioning against the Apple Music marketing bonanza. I know they're eventually going to end the service, and yet it works so well for 10% of the time.
...i was joking, trag
Re: How do you consume music these days?
Posted: Thu November 19, 2015 1:20 am
by William Bloke
Mike wrote:
turned2black wrote:foobar2000
foobar for life, fuck all the other shit
And iTunes can suck a bag of dicks, bloated, computer-controlling piece of shit that it is.
I find spotify great with the Sonos system but I don't tend to use it otherwise (that is, on the PC). The streaming quality is suspect at times.
Generally I listen to digital files I've downloaded, either 320 mp3s or lately more flacs.
Re: How do you consume music these days?
Posted: Thu November 19, 2015 2:35 am
by tragabigzanda
Re: How do you consume music these days?
Posted: Thu November 19, 2015 3:10 am
by bart
iTunes has a dating service?
Re: How do you consume music these days?
Posted: Thu November 19, 2015 3:46 am
by zeb
I use iTunes although I haven't tried its dating service.
Re: How do you consume music these days?
Posted: Thu November 19, 2015 3:48 am
by LoathedVermin72
zeb wrote:I use iTunes although I haven't tried its dating service.
Re: How do you consume music these days?
Posted: Fri November 20, 2015 1:29 am
by Birds in Hell
tragabigzanda wrote:Winamp still exists???
Why do I hate iTunes, LV? Because the simple act of navigating and synchronizing my digital library is a PITA probably 90% of the time. Once in a while, the stars will align between their latest desktop app and iphone app and everything will be stress-free. But generally speaking, the constant, incremental software updates across their platforms makes everything messed up. Always having to deal with greyed-out "ghost songs" on my iphone that are taking up space, but not really playable.
I don't know, though I find iTunes sometimes needlessly complicated for my purposes, I never have any of these issues at all.
I try to manually manage things as much as possible, eg. I wouldn't dream of letting it sync to devices automatically. Haven't ever used Apple Music, don't buy anything from the iTunes store (except movies occasionally).
All I see are the lossless ALAC files I've put there whether that's when I'm using iTunes on my laptop (which connects to an external HD with all my music files), my iPod Classic or my iPhone. I just use it a way to manage and organise my existing files.
Re: How do you consume music these days?
Posted: Fri November 20, 2015 3:17 am
by PHATJ
BurtReynolds wrote:How do you consume music these days?
By tablespoon mostly, but sometimes by suppository. When I really want to spoil myself I snort it. That's my favorite.
Re: How do you consume music these days?
Posted: Tue November 24, 2015 12:53 am
by Strat
I fucking hate spotify so goddamn much.
Re: How do you consume music these days?
Posted: Tue November 24, 2015 1:05 am
by The Argonaut
Strat wrote:I fucking hate spotify so goddamn much.
What's your problem with it? I don't like that it recently lost a bunch of albums that I used it to listen to.
Re: How do you consume music these days?
Posted: Tue November 24, 2015 1:20 am
by Strat
The Argonaut wrote:
Strat wrote:I fucking hate spotify so goddamn much.
What's your problem with it? I don't like that it recently lost a bunch of albums that I used it to listen to.
Its a mess. The way it catalogs everything makes no sense. Its not clean. And the 10,000 Song limit. How do i organize this shit? Why can't it just list the albums right away instead of all the songs? Search for an artist, there stuff comes up, but you can only go click on an album by then visiting the artists page.
Am I missing something here? its an abortion.
Re: How do you consume music these days?
Posted: Tue November 24, 2015 3:35 am
by chewm
Mike wrote:
turned2black wrote:foobar2000
foobar for life, fuck all the other shit
Seriously.
Re: How do you consume music these days?
Posted: Tue November 24, 2015 2:01 pm
by contamination
Strat wrote:
The Argonaut wrote:
Strat wrote:I fucking hate spotify so goddamn much.
What's your problem with it? I don't like that it recently lost a bunch of albums that I used it to listen to.
Its a mess. The way it catalogs everything makes no sense. Its not clean. And the 10,000 Song limit. How do i organize this shit? Why can't it just list the albums right away instead of all the songs? Search for an artist, there stuff comes up, but you can only go click on an album by then visiting the artists page.
Am I missing something here? its an abortion.
If I search an artist, the first link takes me directly to the artist page:
And once I click it, I see the album view:
Are you using the desktop app?
Re: How do you consume music these days?
Posted: Tue November 24, 2015 2:33 pm
by Strat
Been using them all.
Question: Is there a way to add single songs to "Available offline" and then is there a way to "go offline" and shuffle all the music you've saved for offline listening?
Re: How do you consume music these days?
Posted: Tue November 24, 2015 2:38 pm
by contamination
Strat wrote:Been using them all.
Question: Is there a way to add single songs to "Available offline" and then is there a way to "go offline" and shuffle all the music you've saved for offline listening?
I think you have to make a playlist, add the tracks there and then make that playlist available offline (right click -> available offline). I use the Free version so there's no "make available offline" option.
Re: How do you consume music these days?
Posted: Tue November 24, 2015 2:39 pm
by Strat
contamination wrote:
Strat wrote:Been using them all.
Question: Is there a way to add single songs to "Available offline" and then is there a way to "go offline" and shuffle all the music you've saved for offline listening?
I think you have to make a playlist, add the tracks there and then make that playlist available offline (right click -> available offline). I use the Free version so there's no "make available offline" option.
Ugh. Thats super annoying. On RDIO you could just click any song and "sync to mobile" then on the app you could go offline and shuffle all of your offline songs.
Re: How do you consume music these days?
Posted: Tue November 24, 2015 2:44 pm
by contamination
Strat wrote:
contamination wrote:
Strat wrote:Been using them all.
Question: Is there a way to add single songs to "Available offline" and then is there a way to "go offline" and shuffle all the music you've saved for offline listening?
I think you have to make a playlist, add the tracks there and then make that playlist available offline (right click -> available offline). I use the Free version so there's no "make available offline" option.
Ugh. Thats super annoying. On RDIO you could just click any song and "sync to mobile" then on the app you could go offline and shuffle all of your offline songs.
Yeah it's far from perfect, but I think they got a pretty good catalog, and I only use Spotify when I'm home. To be honest, I've never even heard of RDIO before this.
Re: How do you consume music these days?
Posted: Tue November 24, 2015 3:03 pm
by Strat
Strat wrote:
contamination wrote:
Strat wrote:Been using them all.
Question: Is there a way to add single songs to "Available offline" and then is there a way to "go offline" and shuffle all the music you've saved for offline listening?
I think you have to make a playlist, add the tracks there and then make that playlist available offline (right click -> available offline). I use the Free version so there's no "make available offline" option.
Ugh. Thats super annoying. On RDIO you could just click any song and "sync to mobile" then on the app you could go offline and shuffle all of your offline songs.
Figured this one out. A few more steps but this helps
Re: How do you consume music these days?
Posted: Tue November 24, 2015 4:07 pm
by contamination
Strat wrote:
Strat wrote:
contamination wrote:
Strat wrote:Been using them all.
Question: Is there a way to add single songs to "Available offline" and then is there a way to "go offline" and shuffle all the music you've saved for offline listening?
I think you have to make a playlist, add the tracks there and then make that playlist available offline (right click -> available offline). I use the Free version so there's no "make available offline" option.
Ugh. Thats super annoying. On RDIO you could just click any song and "sync to mobile" then on the app you could go offline and shuffle all of your offline songs.
Figured this one out. A few more steps but this helps
