I want to play music and I don’t want to use iTunes.
Windows:
Right-click folder, open in music player. It doesn’t give a damn what’s in it, it doesn’t care if it’s never seen it before, it doesn’t want to tag / sort / organise / move or otherwise screw with it. It just plays.
Mac.
……….
So that’s that then.
Time to move things around.
Update:
The PC is now back where it was. I have the PC for music, for video, for games. The Mac can’t cut it there at all. It needs some sorting out as any ‘family’ machine would, and it needs 3 USB sockets replacing (no need to send it anywhere for that unlike anything Apple make).
Maybe I should have fired up Parallels and Ubuntu …
But…
OK, this is about the lack of ‘music’ apps on OSX right? It’s not about ‘controlling my MP3s in an overly anal manner’… right? ;-)
I feel a blog post coming on..
It’s about the lack of music apps.
It’s about what music apps there are not being able to play as I wish: I have a folder called ‘Zen’ which mirrors the music I have at the gym. It’s a mix of tagged and untagged files. I want to play music from it and only it.
Can I find a way? No.
iT might be able to use it, I don’t want to use that.
It’s moot anyway – the PC is now back for non-work.
The other day I figured out what my frustration with the Mac interface boils down to. It is that although the GUI rides on top of Unix, the GUI paradigm is application-oriented: finder finds files, but special software presents photos, special software presents music, etc.
Windows, on the other hand, has gotten closer to the file-oriented paradigm: open up a directory of JPEG images and you’ll see thumbnails. Open up a directory of mp3 files and you’ll see a little button on the left to “play” the files with your player.
Now, on the Mac, this application-orientation finds its ideal expression in the dock: the dock is pretty awesome. For the rest of what I want to do, aside from Unix stuff, Windows does a better job.
-danny
Wierd that even in multi media you guys say the Mac is mainly hype. Gee am I glad I never bought one. :)
The Mac is not ‘mainly hype’. Mac OS is the problem here, not the Mac itself – given that new Mac run Windows, these problems are now separate. I really agree with this post. There are drawbacks to running OS X not Windows: Danny did a good job of summarising some of them, and then there’s also the games and general software deficit. OTOH, it’s way more stable, doesn’t get viruses, doesn’t need defragging.