iTunes makes your life better

Nice to see a Mission UK fan.

How could someone NOT know about the browser? If you have any decent amount of music, it's almost a requirement! Didn't it used to be default on? I've noticed it's not in newer builds, but I don't remember if it used to be on by default, or if I've always just turned it on.

The EQ is harder to find now too, but that's very nice if you're not passing through some external post processor and just listening on computer speakers like most people.

I know iTunes has gotten a lot of crap, mainly for Apple's terrible coding on the Windows platform (which is getting a little better), but I love iTunes on my Mac.

Anyone else think of BSG when they saw this picture?

"Of course, I'm that annoying guy who gets all excited over tags, charts and graphs"

Which is exactly what iTunes is. A giant fucking spreadsheet. Lame.

I'm always pretty shocked to find out how many people do not know about the browser mode. For me, it's one of the main features that makes iTunes so worthwhile. I know a lot of people who drag albums into playlist. Browser mode makes that unnecessary.

Also I wonder how many people are aware of the "group compilations" feature (not sure about the exact term, since I use iTunes in another language). It definitely helps de-clutter the artist list in browser mode, since artists that only appear on compilations will not appear in that list. As far as I know, iPods have been supporting this since the 3rd or 4th generation, however, iPhone does not, which is a major bummer for me. I wonder if I'm alone with that feature request?

Itunes has completely changed the way I find and enjoy music, podcasts, and news. I've written a couple articles on my blog about it

here:
http://deanandyou.blogspot.com/2008/07/ultimate-guide-to-itunes-smart.html

and here:
http://deanandyou.blogspot.com/2008/09/creating-great-discovery-playlist-in.html

The article talks about iTunes PRO vs. the FREE version.

Um, ok ....

I also want to organize everything in iTunes. I started out with my music collection and now have all my movies and tv shows in there too. For that I use VideoDrive. Great tool to add and tag videos without reconverting first.

I've been using the half-star rating trick for a while now.

"Of course, I'm that annoying guy who gets all excited over tags, charts and graphs, so keep that in mind."

Haha, I'm exactly the same! I even use Lostify to edit the release dates of my ripped movies and tv shows. Love to have the right tags!

Somehow I always love to make graphs of things, like how many applejuice I drank in a week..