Steve Jobs RIP

[Main Street]

Their software irks me. I don't like iTunes, synching, the way that people call MP3 players iPod's/androids phones as iPhones (brilliant marketing though to have achieved this), Apple only accessories, etc. If he was a GAA player he'd be Brian Dooher.

iTunes is a music library and a gateway to the iPod and apple store consumerism. I have all Apple Store related features disabled.
For what it is good at, organizing a music library, iTunes is more than adequate.
The feature to Sync selected recordings to the iPod is a neat affair when you have a large library and you use playlist folders or have your music library sorted into genres. When you have a 110gb music library on a small iPod, you want to navigate through it with ease.
That ease is helped greatly when you sync selected music, already sorted out in playlist folders in  iTunes,  then with one click in iPod you get to the genre/playlist folder you want
Once you have done this once, you don't have to sync ever again, you can simply manually manage your music.
So the sync feature is a desirable feature for the (cough ..  splutter) discerning iPlodder. That counts out Hardy for sure

iTunes doesn't do flac, that's an inconvenience, as most of my downloads are flac lossless files. So I use XLD to convert to Apple lossless.
Having some regular contact with audiophiles who are fanatic about analogue but also about maintaining  a digital music library on their computer in lossless quality, I find many of them are quite okay about about iPod and iTunes.
Some want better tagging ability of id tags, some use other music library software. Some use iTunes as a library but use different players,  possibly because they listen a lot to 24bit music.  iTunes will play 24bit recordings, however it does´t sync automatically with your input/output setting, you would have to change your audio settings manually to listen to it at the correct 24bit/96.000Hz settings.

[muppet]

Their software irks me. I don't like iTunes, synching, the way that people call MP3 players iPod's/androids phones as iPhones (brilliant marketing though to have achieved this), Apple only accessories, etc. If he was a GAA player he'd be Brian Dooher.

iTunes is a music library and a gateway to the iPod and apple store consumerism. I have all Apple Store related features disabled.
For what it is good at, organizing a music library, iTunes is more than adequate.
The feature to Sync selected recordings to the iPod is a neat affair when you have a large library and you use playlist folders or have your music library sorted into genres. When you have a 110gb music library on a small iPod, you want to navigate through it with ease.
That ease is helped greatly when you sync selected music, already sorted out in playlist folders in  iTunes,  then with one click in iPod you get to the genre/playlist folder you want
Once you have done this once, you don't have to sync ever again, you can simply manually manage your music.
So the sync feature is a desirable feature for the (cough ..  splutter) discerning iPlodder. That counts out Hardy for sure

iTunes doesn't do flac, that's an inconvenience, as most of my downloads are flac lossless files. So I use XLD to convert to Apple lossless.
Having some regular contact with audiophiles who are fanatic about analogue but also about maintaining  a digital music library on their computer in lossless quality, I find many of them are quite okay about about iPod and iTunes.
Some want better tagging ability of id tags, some use other music library software. Some use iTunes as a library but use different players,  possibly because they listen a lot to 24bit music.  iTunes will play 24bit recordings, however it does´t sync automatically with your input/output setting, you would have to change your audio settings manually to listen to it at the correct 24bit/96.000Hz settings.

I'm gonna get a jukebox.

[Main Street]

Some of us are not old enough to remember those days

[nifan]

I had an ipod for a time and i used itunes to upgrade the firmware when i first got it then never used it again.
Used amarok (on linux) for the syncing

[Main Street]

I had an ipod for a time and i used itunes to upgrade the firmware when i first got it then never used it again.
Used amarok (on linux) for the syncing

See how flexible the iPod is,
and software developers on other platforms can copy the features of iTunes and other music library applications and incorporate them into their own application.

[seafoid]

I can see Steve Jobs style i-labour relations going down really well at the Irish Times.
What a joke. 

[Medic]

http://www.dragosroua.com/

[Main Street]

I thought I would share this  post mortem interview with Steve that I found while browsing

[imtommygunn]

http://gawker.com/5847344/what-everyone-is-too-polite-to-say-about-steve-jobs

A different slant on it.

[nifan]

I had an ipod for a time and i used itunes to upgrade the firmware when i first got it then never used it again.
Used amarok (on linux) for the syncing

See how flexible the iPod is,
and software developers on other platforms can copy the features of iTunes and other music library applications and incorporate them into their own application.

Well I think the gtkpod library was reverse engineered - apple didnt share the spec freely - i didnt think they did still, but I havent checked as i no longer have an ipod.

The 80gb ipod was the best player at the time no doubt about it.

[gerry]