iTunes Extreme: Killer Add-ons. ⇒
29 November 2004, mid-morning
A list of plugins for iTunes you can probably live without, but may not want to.
This is a post from my link log: If you click the title of this post you will be taken the web page I am discussing.
Other than the LAME plugin, the rest can be done without. MP3 encoding in iTunes is not upto the standard.
Clutter is well…clutter.
by Sunny on November 29 2004, 10:08 pm #
iTunes, while powerful, is a big bloated beast for me, I understand it’s managing 20 gigs worth of mp3 idtags, but they should just make the miniplayer into winamp. Just copy the damn thing as it’s small, quick and effective. iTunes butchers my music from time to time because it gets all logged up in doing something or other. But maybe it’s just me with this problem.
by Dinu on November 30 2004, 7:07 am #
I heard the windows player was far from ideal. I don’t think you are the first to complain about it being slow. I have an older G3 iBook and iTunes does eat up a surprising amount of system resources, especially since it is just a MP3 player. However, if you have a lot of MP3s, like I imagine most people do, the program is quite handy.
by ramanan on November 30 2004, 12:06 pm #
Yeah, I will miss Winamp when I get my iBook.
I don’t use iTunes for the same reason. On Windows its unbearable. Plus its not like any other Windows app. (And Microsoft gets a rap for making “un-mac-like” software for the Mac users?) Sure Winamp doesn’t have organization/ordering capabilities of iTunes but it does one thing (and does it very well) which is play mp3 files. And it sounds much better. ON my laptop it uses 3 to 5% of resources, sometimes even 1%!
Some third party developer needs to make a simple app for playing mp3s for the Mac. But after reading “The Audion Story”, who will go against the iTMS goliath?
by Sunny on November 30 2004, 6:38 pm #