Your Thoughts on iTunes 11

[Remak]

I use Winamp. I've used it ever since '98 or so... I don't like change, and well... it uses very little resources and does exactly what I want it to.

big problem i had with winamp was it hated my 20k music library and would crash half the time when it scanned my library

haha, had this problem with WMP as well, it kept scanning my storage for more MP3s outside of my playlist and its making it hang XD talking about over 20K music files as well.

How do you guys have so much music . I have about 500 songs, but I still don't get to hear them all often enough.

[metro.]

I think my library is a meager 5000, and I get through quite a bit of it. But I listen to music pretty much the entire time I'm in my dorm, which is almost all the time because I've no where else to be when I'm not in class.

[buchno]

I only have about 7000, but I get by with Spotify, radio streams and whatnot.

...oh, and that includes this torrent.

[bloody000]

Who cares, I only open it to put music and manga onto my devices.

[mgz]

I use Winamp. I've used it ever since '98 or so... I don't like change, and well... it uses very little resources and does exactly what I want it to.

big problem i had with winamp was it hated my 20k music library and would crash half the time when it scanned my library

haha, had this problem with WMP as well, it kept scanning my storage for more MP3s outside of my playlist and its making it hang XD talking about over 20K music files as well.

How do you guys have so much music . I have about 500 songs, but I still don't get to hear them all often enough.

you must not have much for ranging taste in music, or dont mind listening to shitty radio stations.
I need that much music and keep grabbin more i like to check out whole albums from bands not just a couple songs. Give me their discography or a few of their albums so i can listen to that shit.Constantly look for more shit.

[megido-rev.M]

I use Winamp. I've used it ever since '98 or so... I don't like change, and well... it uses very little resources and does exactly what I want it to.

big problem i had with winamp was it hated my 20k music library and would crash half the time when it scanned my library

haha, had this problem with WMP as well, it kept scanning my storage for more MP3s outside of my playlist and its making it hang XD talking about over 20K music files as well.

How do you guys have so much music . I have about 500 songs, but I still don't get to hear them all often enough.

lol that's only like a fraction of what I have played through.

[kitamesume]

the 20+K is my whole library, usually my playlist is only like 599-699 songs.

[sawakosadako]

Mine is 60K+. Damn it's so heavy on iTunes. Just tried foobar and I so love it. It's so light.

[Tiffanys]

I have.... 24GB (some of that is music videos though) which is... 4059 files.

[megido-rev.M]

24GB isn't that much .

[Remak]

How do you guys have so much music . I have about 500 songs, but I still don't get to hear them all often enough.

you must not have much for ranging taste in music, or dont mind listening to shitty radio stations.
I need that much music and keep grabbin more i like to check out whole albums from bands not just a couple songs. Give me their discography or a few of their albums so i can listen to that shit.Constantly look for more shit.

I guess it is just personal preference. I don't really understand the whole download every song from every album from every artist thing. You just end up with songs in your library that you haven't listened to in months. / Songs that you don't like very much.

I'd rather listen everyday to each song, and know instantly when it starts playing (Which is still impossible with my "little" amount of over 30 hours of music). I guess I consider music more of an experience to be enjoyed/listened to than a discovery experience.

And I don't have a small taste. I generally have 20-30 songs from each genera that I like and I am happy with those.  . And I don't listen to the radio, I find all the ads ruin it

[mgz]

How do you guys have so much music . I have about 500 songs, but I still don't get to hear them all often enough.

you must not have much for ranging taste in music, or dont mind listening to shitty radio stations.
I need that much music and keep grabbin more i like to check out whole albums from bands not just a couple songs. Give me their discography or a few of their albums so i can listen to that shit.Constantly look for more shit.

I guess it is just personal preference. I don't really understand the whole download every song from every album from every artist thing. You just end up with songs in your library that you haven't listened to in months. / Songs that you don't like very much.

I'd rather listen everyday to each song, and know instantly when it starts playing (Which is still impossible with my "little" amount of over 30 hours of music). I guess I consider music more of an experience to be enjoyed/listened to than a discovery experience.

And I don't have a small taste. I generally have 20-30 songs from each genera that I like and I am happy with those.  . And I don't listen to the radio, I find all the ads ruin it

see i prefer to take in entire discographies or for some bands certain eras of their work. Like with most bands from classic rock i can grab up to the mid 70s for their work and be incredibly happy. I listen to so much music if i only had 30 hours of music to listen to i would be recycling the same crap so much its not even funny. I personally think i like to try and get into music like people used to you just grab everything you can from an artist an figure out what i like and what i dont and get rid of what i dont. So i know a large portion of the stuff that comes on even if i dont know all the lyrics as it goes i recognize the songs and artist and will typically go through periods of just rocking 1 or 2 bands for like a week and just enjoy their entire discography during that time, listen to the stuff i love stuff i kinda like and stuff i dont like that much and sometimes when you hear shit a couple times it grows on you.

[kitamesume]

one of the advantages of having huge libraries is that you can group up playlists worth 20-30hrs and play them, you could switch playlists when you get bored of the one you're currently listening to.

usually you end up similar to:
playlist1 = monday
playlist2 = tuesday
playlist3 = wednesday
etc.

and you can't do that with less than 10K library, that is if your playlist is at least 500songs large.

edit: on a note though, about 60% of the songs i have in stock were the kind of "tried it, didn't like it" but still remains on my harddrive.

[metro.]

How do you guys have so much music . I have about 500 songs, but I still don't get to hear them all often enough.

you must not have much for ranging taste in music, or dont mind listening to shitty radio stations.
I need that much music and keep grabbin more i like to check out whole albums from bands not just a couple songs. Give me their discography or a few of their albums so i can listen to that shit.Constantly look for more shit.

I guess it is just personal preference. I don't really understand the whole download every song from every album from every artist thing. You just end up with songs in your library that you haven't listened to in months. / Songs that you don't like very much.

I'd rather listen everyday to each song, and know instantly when it starts playing (Which is still impossible with my "little" amount of over 30 hours of music). I guess I consider music more of an experience to be enjoyed/listened to than a discovery experience.

And I don't have a small taste. I generally have 20-30 songs from each genera that I like and I am happy with those.  . And I don't listen to the radio, I find all the ads ruin it

Your vaguely superior tone aside, the fact you don't tire of the same songs is impressive. Then again, I suppose it depends on how much you listen to music.

[SpeedKills]

Using iTunes would be so philosophically and morally disgusting to me that I would probably have to be lobotomized before I even considered it.

!

And I'm not saying that to be with the 'against apple' crowd, I really believe it's a cancer in digital form.

I mean, would you use a video player for anime that only let you use that specific player, DRM-locked all your episodes, and only let you watch them on a TV that was made by the same manufacturer?

[mgz]

Using iTunes would be so philosophically and morally disgusting to me that I would probably have to be lobotomized before I even considered it.

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And I'm not saying that to be with the 'against apple' crowd, I really believe it's a cancer in digital form.

I mean, would you use a video player for anime that only let you use that specific player, DRM-locked all your episodes, and only let you watch them on a TV that was made by the same manufacturer?

it depends on how delicious the koolaid is

[Mistgun_Zero]

I use Winamp. I've used it ever since '98 or so... I don't like change, and well... it uses very little resources and does exactly what I want it to.

Give foobar2000 a try, I am sure you will shift to it. The sheer number of customization option(not just looks, even playback options like equalizers and extra cool stuff.), lightning quick response, and no-crash feature is just amazing. 

one of the advantages of having huge libraries is that you can group up playlists worth 20-30hrs and play them, you could switch playlists when you get bored of the one you're currently listening to.

usually you end up similar to:
playlist1 = monday
playlist2 = tuesday
playlist3 = wednesday
etc.

and you can't do that with less than 10K library, that is if your playlist is at least 500songs large.

edit: on a note though, about 60% of the songs i have in stock were the kind of "tried it, didn't like it" but still remains on my harddrive.

Haha, you are just like me in that aspect then, kita. Though I got smaller playlist's too.

[SpeedKills]

Yeah, Foobar2000 is the way to go.  Just find a free version of the LAME codec and you can manage / rip your music pretty easily.  The only thing I don't like about Foobar is the equalizer... anything other than "disabled" messes my music up for some reason.

[bloody000]

Yeah, Foobar2000 is the way to go.  Just find a free version of the LAME codec and you can manage / rip your music pretty easily.  The only thing I don't like about Foobar is the equalizer... anything other than "disabled" messes my music up for some reason.

There're equalizers that don't mess up sound?

there's no "non-free" LAME. it's open source. I prefer Nero AAC though.