The main problem with iTunes, and most music players for that matter, is that it relied on tags. If you had a big music library organized by filename and directory you were screwed, it only cared about tags.
Even if you ripped all your music from CDs the database that iTunes used (CDDB) was complete crap. The inconsistencies for basic stuff like artist name and genera screwed up your organization.
In fact the best option was to pirate all your music instead, because the pirates set strict standards for taggin
The main problem with iTunes, and most music players for that matter, is that it relied on tags. If you had a big music library organized by filename and directory you were screwed, it only cared about tags.
Even if you ripped all your music from CDs the database that iTunes used (CDDB) was complete crap. The inconsistencies for basic stuff like artist name and genera screwed up your organization.
In fact the best option was to pirate all your music instead, because the pirates set strict standards for tagging and hand edited them to be correct.
Tags are so much worse than using directories and file names. For example, it's easy to typo tags but if you have a directory called "Sonata Arctica" and you put all Sonata Arctica's music in you won't lose it to a typo. It's also far faster to organize stuff that way, not least because the tag editing tools in iTunes were complete crap.
You can leave your precious directory-trees alone in iTunes.
And iTunes has pretty good tag-editing tools. It will even edit tags of multiple songs simultaneously, nicely leaving the unedited "fields" alone.
kid3 is much nicer. Apple's tag editing tools seem functional, but they'll randomly fail to save changes and cause quirky problems with other players trying to read them. Which is ironic because I use AAC for my music files.
Duplicate songs (Score:5, Funny)
Duplicate songs, from when I copied my Napster-based library of MP3s from one computer to another.
Duplicate songs, from when I copied my Napster-based library of MP3s from one computer to another. (1)
Duplicate songs, from when I copied my Napster-based library of MP3s from one computer to another - Copy
Duplicate songs, from when I copied my Napster-based library of MP3s from one computer to another - Copy (1)
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The main problem with iTunes, and most music players for that matter, is that it relied on tags. If you had a big music library organized by filename and directory you were screwed, it only cared about tags.
Even if you ripped all your music from CDs the database that iTunes used (CDDB) was complete crap. The inconsistencies for basic stuff like artist name and genera screwed up your organization.
In fact the best option was to pirate all your music instead, because the pirates set strict standards for taggin
Re: (Score:1)
The main problem with iTunes, and most music players for that matter, is that it relied on tags. If you had a big music library organized by filename and directory you were screwed, it only cared about tags.
Even if you ripped all your music from CDs the database that iTunes used (CDDB) was complete crap. The inconsistencies for basic stuff like artist name and genera screwed up your organization.
In fact the best option was to pirate all your music instead, because the pirates set strict standards for tagging and hand edited them to be correct.
Tags are so much worse than using directories and file names. For example, it's easy to typo tags but if you have a directory called "Sonata Arctica" and you put all Sonata Arctica's music in you won't lose it to a typo. It's also far faster to organize stuff that way, not least because the tag editing tools in iTunes were complete crap.
You can leave your precious directory-trees alone in iTunes.
And iTunes has pretty good tag-editing tools. It will even edit tags of multiple songs simultaneously, nicely leaving the unedited "fields" alone.
Re:Duplicate songs (Score:2)
kid3 is much nicer. Apple's tag editing tools seem functional, but they'll randomly fail to save changes and cause quirky problems with other players trying to read them. Which is ironic because I use AAC for my music files.